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19 Feb 2002 Edinburgh janitors vindicated by arbitration decision UNISON has welcomed an ACAS arbitration finding which backs the union's view that the City of Edinburgh Council should have paid nationally agreed irregular hours payments to over 100 janitors. But the union is angry that it took six days of strike action last Christmas to even get to arbitration. "UNISON had been calling for arbitration for almost two years. It is a disgrace that a strike - and all the disruption that brought to schools - was needed before the council agreed to it", said George Lee UNISON Edinburgh Branch Manual Convenor. "Our members are furious they had to strike, they had to ensure attacks from the council and vilification from some of the press. They were especially angry at false reports that UNISON was refusing arbitration when in fact it was the Council", he added. "Perhaps now the public will see who the real Scrooges were last Christmas". UNISON and the Council agreed that arbitration would be binding. This means the Council will now have to find around £300,000 it owes janitors. ENDS |
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