Greater Manchester tram workers to strike in row over pay and sickness benefits

Staff are set to walk out later this month and on three dates in October

Author: Alan Jones & Dan DaviesPublished 15th Sep 2023

Greater Manchester tram workers are to strike in a dispute over pay and sickness benefits.

Members of the GMB at Metrolink will walk out on September 29 and October 6, 13 and 20.

GMB organiser Shaun Buckley said: "Manchester's tram workers have delivered a 100% yes vote to take industrial action to demand the return of their sickness benefit scheme and bank holiday pay rates.

"Since the contract was outsourced, GMB members have suffered worse terms and conditions and a merry-go-round of changing employers winning contracts to clean the trams.

"If Transport for Greater Manchester, the Manchester Mayor's Office and Bidvest Noonan want to stop travel chaos for the city, they must stop the erosion of terms and conditions for these already low-paid workers."

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