Councils, the Housing Executive and some schools face strike disruption due to Unite pay dispute
Unite's Northern Ireland Officer Gareth Scott said employers were to blame for the resumption of strike action."These employers need to address the pay expectations of their workforce," he said in a statement.
"Therefore, local government organisations, including EA, do not have the power or authority to renegotiate this for Northern Ireland," the authority said. "We firmly believe these requests to be reasonable and valid and we remain unclear about the basis for them to be rejected by Unite given the impact on some of the most vulnerable children," the authority added.The Education Authority said it had asked Unite for special school staff and bus drivers to be exempted from the strike action, but the union refused
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