NI Election 2022: council and education workers in strike demo
Last updated 6th May 2022
Striking workers staged a demonstration today (Friday) outside the Stormont Assembly election count at the Titanic Exhibition Centre.
Council and education workers are holding a two-week strike over a pay offer which they have rejected.
Belfast City Council worker and Unite shop steward John Moore said they want politicians to take note that "this isn't going to stop until people come to the table and talk to us".
"We were offered a 1.75% pay rise after nearly 12 years of pay cuts and pay freezes, and that 1.75% is just another pay cut, people have to meet their household bills, pay for food and energy and they just can't do it," he said.
And SDLP leader Colum Eastwood addressed workers after he arrived at the count centre in Magherafelt (see Tweet above)