Tag: Ards & North Down Borough Council
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NI Local Authorities: stop misleading the public and use your powers to provide real pay improvement
As Unite members in councils, education and housing across Northern Ireland continue strike action, the union has hit out at the misinformation from the employers. The workers are on strike in pursuit of a pay increase to recover earnings lost through over a decade of attacks on wages and to help combat the harm to…
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Unite confirms further dates for strike action for pay increase by council, education and housing workers in Northern Ireland
Strike action set to continue over a two week period spanning end of April and early May Following on from strike action taken by Unite members at Councils, the Education Authority, NI Housing Executive, Further Education colleges, Schools and youth service, the union has now confirmed a timetable of further strike action. This will take the form…
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Striking council workers, education workers and housing executive workers hear calls for Stormont to deliver a wage they can live on
On the fourth day of strike action by Unite members across all eleven councils, the NI Housing Executive and Education Authority, members of the union gathered at Stormont to hear demands for urgent action from politicians to reverse their `failure’ and deliver a pay improvement. As Stormont goes into recess, the rally heard that with…
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Unite members in councils, education authority, Housing Executive and Schools launch first week of strike action to win improved pay
Strike likely to result in significant disruption to council services, housing executive maintenance and school transport Union members will be striking for improved pay at all eleven local Councils, the Education Authority, the NI Housing Executive, North West Regional College, Belfast Metropolitan College, St Columb’s College, South Eastern Regional College, Lumen Christi College and the Northern…
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Unite shop stewards at Bombardier have a second meeting with council party leaders to raise threat of compulsory redundancies and outsourcing
After current round of redundancies Northern Ireland workforce will be one-third what it was eight years ago Union blasts Bombardier corporate plan to make five thousand workers redundant globally to increase operating profits by $250 million March 14th: Susan Fitzgerald, Unite Regional Coordinating Officer responsible for Bombardier confirmed that shop stewards this morning met with…
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Mid and East Antrim Borough Council votes unanimously to back Unite campaign for Bombardier jobs
Workers gather to hear councillors agree to write to Prime Minister and EU Trade Commissioner to demand real action #backBombardier campaign motion will be raised at meetings at another three councils in the coming month Susan Fitzgerald, Unite Regional Industrial Officer, was among a group of Bombardier workers outside Ballymena Town Hall last night to…