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MEMBERS of three unions will protest today against Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s plans to slash care workers’ wages by 20 per cent.
GMB, Unite and Unison say that 1,000 staff are threatened by the proposals to cut payments for StokeCare employees working weekends and unsociable hours. They are urging the council to ditch the plans.
GMB organiser Dave Warwick said: “Stoke council has finally run out of excuses — the government has a huge majority, all the Stoke MPs are Tory and the council is run by Tories.
“They should go to central government and demand the money Stoke City Council needs and take its boot off the neck of its lowest-paid workers.”
The unions will demonstrate at 4.30pm at the war memorial outside the King’s Hall, Kingsway, Stoke-on-Trent.
No-one from the council’s media office was available for comment before the Star went to press.
