St Mungos (UNITE) Strike Calendar
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After three months of strike action and tireless campaigning the workers have agreed to a pay increase which works out at 10.74 per cent based on a median wage or £3,125 in cash terms. Plus, the total financial gain includes a one-off payment of £700 for most workers.
Unite has warned that St Mungo’s can no longer rely on agency labour to run a skeleton service while paying dedicated homelessness workers a pittance. Workers at the charity have been on indefinite strike action since 27 June. A recent High Court ruling now threatens to plunge the charity into crisis without swift action.
From Wednesday 10 August employers will be barred from recruiting agency staff to undermine legal strike action. The charity is currently using a number of agencies.
St Mungo’s increased its pay offer from 2.25 per cent to a paltry 3.7 per cent. This is despite St Mungo’s having £16 million in cash and substantial reserves. The pay offer was rejected. Bosses have failed to make any attempt to improve the offer.
Workers at the homelessness charity St Mungo’s have roundly rejected a ‘divisive’ pay offer from management aimed at splitting the workforce and breaking the indefinite strike.
St Mungo’s increased its pay offer from 2.25% to a paltry 3.7% at a time when inflation is 11.3% and food inflation is at 18.4 per cent. This is despite St Mungo’s having £16 million in cash and substantial reserves. The pay offer was rejected by a margin of 62%.
According to the annual accounts CEO pay stands at £189,000 while the lowest paid frontline worker is on £20,000. Another highly paid executive has recently been brought in on a salary advertised at £130,000 but the executive could be getting even more. Over the last ten years senior manager’s pay has increased by 385% whilst front line pay had decreased by 30% in real terms. This is the corporatisation of St Mungo’s.
- From tomorrow (Tuesday 27 June) workers at St Mungo’s will stage an unprecedented indefinite strike accusing management of a shocking dereliction of duty towards the homeless and the charity’s own staff.
- This momentous decision has been provoked by the ongoing indifference of management who callously refuse to acknowledge the struggle front-line workers face to pay the bills. After tax and deductions frontline workers take home less than £20,000 a year. Many of the workers are now in fear themselves after being unable to pay their rent or mortgage on their current poverty wages
St Mungo's workers will go on strike beginning on Tuesday 30 May in London, Brighton, Bristol, Oxford, and Bournemouth.
Workers are fed up with greed at the top of their homeless charity while they struggle to make ends meet. The pay offer of a pitiful 2.25% spectacularly backfired resulting in the announcement of a month long strike.
Unite regional officer Steve O'Donnell said: "The workers at St Mungo's are ready for this strike. Although they recognise taking action has an impact on their clients, the fault of the strike lies firmly with management.
"Our members will not accept the crumbs from the table. Especially while the number of senior managers increases and the CEO earns a huge salary. All their divisive and spiteful tricks of changing payroll deadlines to impoverish strikers will backfire because our members are ready to take action for improved pay."
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