Great Yarmouth Services (UNITE) Strike Calendar

Great Yarmouth Services workers are to be balloted for strike action over poverty pay, Unite, the UK’s leading union, said today. The bin workers, street cleaners, tree surgeons and gardeners, the majority of who earn pennies above minimum wage, are angry at a 3.3 per cent pay offer from the council-owned company.

The offer would not even give the majority of workers a legal increase to be in line with the minimum wage, which rose by 4.1 per cent in April. When workers expressed their dissatisfaction with the offer, they were told by council officials that they “are lucky to have this as Great Yarmouth is a low wage, poverty area” and that if they are unhappy they “should work for Sainsburys or Tesco”.