Hundreds of our friends, relatives and colleagues are being threatened with compulsory redundancy, cuts in wages and the withdrawal of locally agreed conditions of work. Every City Council worker is at risk of losing their job or having their pay cut because of the management's failure to abide by the assurances they gave us when they brought in the budget. Management said there would three alternative jobs for every employee threatened with redundancy - their vacancy figures clearly show that this is not the case. If management get away with these cuts in jobs, pay and conditions they will be back for more throughout this year. They are already predicting a 14 to 16 million overspend for the end of the current financial year and it's only just started.
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