Unions to ballot for 'sustained' campaign of strikes

Unison, the GMB and Unite have confirmed they will ballot for action to be taken in late November and into next Spring after the annual Trades Union Congress unanimously backed a motion calling for co-ordinated strikes over Lord Hutton's pension reforms. Scheme members from the LGPS, the NHS scheme, prison workers, civil servants, teachers and lecturers will all be affected by the action. Union figures ramped up the rhetoric at the Congress in London this morning, blasting government's decision to switch from RPI to CPI and attacking Lord Hutton for his report into reforms. Unison ...