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A TORY council leader was accused of “gross hypocrisy” yesterday for attempting to slash union facility time while hiring her own £42,000-a-year adviser.
Portsmouth City Council seems “hell-bent” on worsening industrial relations by slashing the funding for trade union reps who represent workers, Unite said.
The union called the plans “self-defeating” as reps taking facility time provide representation to workers, smoothing out the disciplinary process and averting possible escalations into a potential industrial dispute.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Liverpool Trades Council has unveiled a ‘People’s Budget’ to fight £56m cuts and council tax rises. DEAN YOUNG reports
Megapicket to shut down Birmingham’s refuse sites
