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UK: Local government dispute declared

17 February 2014
UNISON
PSI affiliate UNISON and the other local government unions have lodged a formal dispute with the Local Government Employers covering England, Wales and Northern Ireland over the failure to make a pay offer on 14 January 2014.

The letter to Sarah Messenger, the employers' secretary on the National Joint Council for Local Government Services, states: "In light of the failure to make us an NJC pay offer for 2014-15 and as a result of your suggestion that this year's pay offer will in any case be ‘pegged’ to the national minimum wage, I am writing to notify you that the Trade Union Side considers itself to be in formal dispute with you."

It is signed UNISON national secretary Heather Wakefield on behalf of the joint trade unions, which also include PSI affiliates GMB and Unite.

Article on UNISON's website

Key issue: local government pay

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Attachments 
Microsoft Office document icon Joint union letter to Local Government Employers

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