Unison Special Conference votes to put Local Government pay dispute back on!

Local government workers in Unison this week overturned the leadership's appalling sell out of the pay dispute.

Conference voted by 62% and then 68% to re-open this year's pay claim with a fight for the living wage and equivalent flat rate increase for all workers in the run up to the general election and the first year of a new government.

It is crucial now that those branches central to this and the left launch a campaign to rebuild branch activity around pay. We have to learn the lessons from the northwest organising against the bureaucracy and coordinate branches without fear of leadership backlash

Now is the time to build a branch based rank and file of local government workers not just in unison but with other unions too.