Five day Kirklees Council strike could take place in mid-October

Sep 1 2010 by Barry Gibson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Paul Holmes

“Our members are having a formula applied to them retrospectively. It wasn’t used when managers went through their restructure,” he said.

Mr Holmes added that it was wrong for council workers to suffer compulsory redundancies because of the deficit. “Workers are being asked to pay for someone else’s crisis,” he said.

Kirklees Unison’s members will be balloted between September 9 and September 29. If they vote for a strike there will be five days of industrial action in mid-October.

Mr Holmes believes the people of Huddersfield will back his members if there is a strike.

He said: “With very few exceptions, the public is totally supportive.”