Union leaders meet over London Weighting strikes

Local
government union leaders are to meet today to discuss strike action over London
Weighting payments.

They
want the present London weighting payments – which range from £1,407 to £2,646
a year – to increase to £4,000.

The
Transport and General Workers’ union, Unison and the GMB are today setting up a
joint union strike committee to plan industrial action to back the claim.

Workers
such as dinner ladies, street cleaners and classroom assistants – who are paid
as little as £9,000 a year – say they cannot afford to live in London.

The
new plans follow a national strike in July after which the lowest paid received
a 10.9 per cent pay rise.

The
employers are to meet next month to review the union’s claim.

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Council
staff from London’s 32 boroughs have already been on four days of strike action
this year over the London Weighting claim.

By Ben Willmott