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BRITISH Gas staff have overwhelmingly accepted a pay rise worth at least 5 per cent, a year on from a bitter fire-and-rehire strike.
Andy Prendergast, GMB national secretary, said the union has worked hard to get the company to address the cost-of-living crisis for workers.
He said: “We are pleased we have been able to negotiate a deal that helps members and their families.
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR