on coune anABO seen their demand for a major increase in London weighting Snunted into the stais o egotiation, after four succes: 1 C2 0 30856 860 union side negotiator and UNI. SON regional head of local government, has confirmed she wrote to the employers LOTOCR tive response to the London lodged over a year ago.
The Association of London Government, Which negotiates on behat of all 53 London counols, has agreed to meet to discuss the claim on September UNISON, with 55,000 London local sovernment members, is the biggest of the local govemmene unions, but pintly with the GMB and GWU. Council staff receive just £1.407 weighting in outer London and (2,674 in inner a resut The high cost of living in London, Europe's most expensive cisy to ive in, b a senous problem. Keteworkers such as dinner ladies, street deaners of whom barely make €9,000 a ing the general public. year, are being forced out of scems to have come trom the "usual suspects" and much accommodation and transport.
of the membership of The unions point out that the metropolcn rolce, wnid increased its London Weighting which have yet to declare a BaTOHS view: the debate is no doubt to €6,000 a year plus free travel on public transport still raging at local level.
But within the M25, has managed hight 15 autumn, it is already clear that local government staff. A joint union meeting on their biegest August 21 warned that if the strength since the 1970s have calks with the ALG do not yield at least managed to secure quick and postive results they will call further stoppages, and are likely to form a building step up efforts to disrups the block tor other work of coundis wille protest among the low paid. our of future pay Consule son. the whether or not the resumed in a hot SOW resistance