The employees went on strike earlier this month. (ANDY RAIN/EFE)
Officials from across sectors across the UK will hold a new strike in May and next June at unconfirmed dates as part of a dispute they have over wages and their employment, union Prospect announced on Wednesday.
This group of trade unions, representing tens of thousands of professionals specializing in technical, management or scientific positions, indicated today that they will take legal steps to call for a new strike.
The union members who will support the strike work in various public sector institutions in the country, ranging from the Metropolitan Police (Met), Ministry of Defense, Scientific Technology Laboratory, to health and security officers or intellectual property offices. , among others.
The employees went on strike earlier this month.
“We continue to press the government to engage in meaningful negotiations to resolve the wage issues that have compelled our members to take industrial action,” union secretary general Mike Clancy said today.
The union leader recalled that “strikes were totally avoidable but our government’s failure to even start a negotiation process made it almost inevitable.”
“The government should engage with Prospect and other unions representing other civil servants, as it has done with other officials in other public sectors,” he argued.
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