Delegates agree: ‘If our pay doesn’t rise, we will’

This morning, UNISON local government conference unanimously voted to back a motion to campaign for pay rises for workers delivering outsourced services, including those in social care, school meals and refuse collection.
Local authority budget cuts have heavily affected the salaries of workers employed by private contractors who are delivering local government outsourced services.
Introducing the motion, UNISON chair of the private contractors national forum Catharyn Richardson said: “If