Shift in Tower Hamlets

Submitted by AWL on 16 September, 2020 - 8:11
Tower Hamlets strike

John Biggs, mayor of the Labour council in Tower Hamlets, east London, has at last agreed to talk directly with the public services union Unison about his “Tower Rewards” plan to cut terms and conditions.

He will meet Unison Regional Secretary Maggie Ferncombe, other officials, and branch representatives. This move follows nine days of strikes by Tower Hamlets Unison in July and August in response to the imposition of “Tower Rewards”.

Unison branch secretary John McLoughlin says: “If management were genuine in their claim that Tower Rewards was not in part about making it easier to make staff redundant on the cheap, they should listen to our comments and amend the proposals”. As an “act of good faith [...] our request for a re-ballot to enable us to take further industrial action if necessary will be temporarily put on hold”.

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