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Express & Star 31 Dec 10
Thousands of Walsall Council employees locked in an equal pay battle with town hall bosses are to be made offers in a bid to settle the dispute. But officials from the union Unite have advised their members not to agree terms because they say the offer is derisory.
The council is hoping to settle all potential pay claims over the next few months before it implements the national single status agreement in the summer. That scheme aims to iron out pay inequailities…
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B'ham Mail 24 Dec 10
More than 3,750 bus drivers across the West Midlands have been offered a pay rise of just 1.5 per cent – as their company rakes in profits of £80,000 a day.
A New Year wage battle is on the cards at Birmingham-based transport giant National Express after the firm tabled the initial offer to Unite the union.
Details of the pay talks emerged just days after the Mail revealed that the region’s biggest bus operator was on track for a £9 million profits surge this year, pushing up earnings from £20 million for 2009 to £29 million…
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Express & Star 23 Nov 10
Letters have been sent out to more than 1,300 workers at Walsall Council asking them to take voluntary redundancy.
A total of 427 jobs will be axed at the council over the next three years as part of hard-hitting plans to save £65 million. Council chiefs say 187 of these will be posts that are already vacant, leaving 240 posts still facing the chop…
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Chris Henwood B'ham Mail 18 Nov 10
Around 60 members of the Unite and Unison unions were outside Walsall Council House on Wednesday night to show opposition to public sector job cuts that could be about to hit the borough.
They greeted members of Walsall’s ruling cabinet as they headed into a meeting where they were looking at proposals for next year’s budget.
The cuts could see the axe fall on around 350 posts in Walsall, borough council leader Mike Bird has said. Of these posts around 165 were already vacant, he explained…
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B'ham Mail 5 Nov 10
Workers at Jaguar Land Rover, including employees at two plants in the West Midlands, have voted overwhelmingly to accept a deal including a two-year pay rise which union leaders said would secure their jobs for a decade.
Unite said 74% of workers at Castle Bromwich and Solihull, along with Merseyside plant Halewood, accepted the deal which will see pay increase by 5% this year and by RPI inflation plus 0.5% the following year…
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Jon Griffin B'ham Post 29 Oct 10
Unions are pressing for a five per cent increase for 3,750 bus drivers across the West Midlands – and improved sickness and pension terms for lower-paid employees.
Unite the union has submitted its 2010 wage claim to Birmingham-based transport giant National Express as the company digests last week’s coalition spending cuts…
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Jon Griffin B'ham Post 27 Sep 10
Birmingham Airport’s final salary pension scheme is set to be retained in a major boost for nearly 400 workers – despite a deficit of £26million.
A “dogged” campaign by Unite the union has led to a likely partial compromise which would see a modified pension scheme still based on airport employees’ final salaries, it has been revealed…
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Jon Griffin B'ham Mail 25 Sep 10
Bus services across the West Midlands face massive cutbacks of £20 million with night-time, rural and Sunday routes all at risk – and the threat of a ten per cent fares rise.
Unite union regional official John Partridge disclosed the scale of the financial axe facing transport giant National Express following emergency talks with management on the proposed cutbacks…
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Jon Griffin B'ham Post 28 Aug 10
Cadbury workers have voted overwhelmingly to accept a 3.7 per cent pay rise from new owners Kraft following a tough five-month battle with management.
The deal was approved by 1,133 workers, with only 47 against, and one spoilt paper. The ballot result, revealed last night, will now be backdated to March 31, providing a substantial bonus for up to 1,000 workers at the firm’s flagship Bournville factory…
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B'ham Post 23 Jul 10
Workers at a Walsall-based galvanising company are being balloted over strike action after a row broke out about bonus payments.
The Unite union will ballot 50 workers at Joseph Ash Galvanising over action after the company withdrew bonuses worth around £40-a-week to its staff in March without the agreement of workers…