Refuse collectors in Barrow will go on strike tomorrow for three days over pay.
More than three-quarters of FCC Environment’s workforce are expected to down tools after members of the GMB union voted unanimously to take industrial action.
The strikes will take place on six days from March 9 to March 11 and March 16 to 18. The union says the action will affect more than 33,000 households.
Michael Hall, GMB organiser, said: “Barrow’s refuse collectors are at the end of their tether. Bosses are trying to fob them off with a real terms pay cut while the country is in the grip of the worst cost of living crisis in a generation.
“These refuse collectors know what they’re worth and they’ll fight to get it. Management could stop any disruption for the people of Barrow in a pen stroke – just offer our members an actual pay rise so they can make ends meet.”
