Members of the largest local government union will not be striking over pay this year, following a very narrow vote in favour of industrial action on a 24.4% turn-out.
According to Unison, the ballot closed last Friday and saw 144,719 valid ballot papers returned, with 74,631 members (or 51.6%) voting for action and 70,088 (48.4%) voting against.
The union says the ballot result was considered by its NJC committee and local government service group executive. It adds that the NJC committee welcomed the majority vote in the ballot by members for strike action in the current pay dispute. But it overwhelmingly voted for a statement which read: "However, in all the circumstances, including the narrowness of the majority and the size of the poll, this result does not constitute the basis for viable industrial action to break the government’s pay policy."
The result shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who read this post on public sector pay at the beginning of October.
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