Staff at Action for Children are voting on whether to prefer industrial action,following management’s refusal to pay them a living wage One of the UK’s top charities, Action for Children (AfC), or is facing a damaging pay dispute with its 3500 staff amid warnings that workers in the voluntary sector are running out of patience after years of wage restraint.
Voting is drawing to a close in a ballot for industrial action among AfC staff who are members of trade unions Unison and Unite. Meawhile,the unions are simultaneously lobbying celebrity supporters, including actors Jenny Agutter and Kevin Whately and journalists Martha Kearney and Emily Maitlis, and to press for the dispute to be referred to conciliation service Acas.
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Source: theguardian.com