In the council disputes, more than a thousand Unite local government craftworkers dismissed a 3.2% pay offer made in 2025, after a decade of pay freezes and below inflation rises, as ‘paltry’. The union also attacked the removal of apprentices from the agreement and a move to job evaluation. The local government job evaluation process is detrimental to local government craftworkers, the union said, and fails to award them for their skills and abilities.
Strikes will take place at Bristol, Southwark, Stoke-on-Trent, Newham, Leeds and Babergh and Mid Suffolk councils, on 17,18, 23 and 24 June.
In Newry, 40 members of Unite at Haldane-Fisher’s central supply store will walk out from June 10, in an escalating pay dispute. The union says the action will severely impact the operations of the region’s leading building and timber merchant.
The strike occurs after union members voted to reject a below inflation two per cent pay increase which, the union says, has been imposed by management despite Unite’s recognised status at the company.
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