Social workers to take nine more weeks of strike action as talks fail to resolve dispute

Mental health social workers are to take a further nine weeks of strike action after mediated talks with their employer failed to resolve the dispute.
UNISON and Barnet council held talks this week – mediated by employment relations body ACAS – over the pay dispute that had seen practitioners take 27 days’ strike action since September 2023.
The negotiations had followed union members voting overwhelmingly to go back on strike and Barnet UNISON scheduling nine weeks of action,