Trade unions have directly approached local government secretary, Robert Jenrick, to provide a ‘fully funded, proper pay rise for local government workers’.
The letter from Unison, Unite and GMB said the current pay offer from the employers of 2.75% ‘offers very little by way of catch-up on years of lost earnings and falls well below what local government workers deserve’.
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