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RECYCLING workers employed by notorious privateer Serco are to ballot on strike action over pay, it was revealed yesterday.
Forty members of general union GMB are employed by the company on a contract for Mid-Sussex District Council working on waste disposal, recycling and street cleaning.
Serco wants to impose a real-terms pay cut by enforcing a below-inflation pay rise of 1 per cent.
Voting on industrial action starts on September 12.
GMB organiser Gary Palmer said: “The ballot for action is because of the offer of a 1 per cent rise. The recent cost of living increase and low pay awards over the past few years have resulted in our members seeing their standard of living drop at an alarming rate.”
Last year Serco was found to have defrauded the taxpayer of millions of pounds by overcharging for security work such as prisoner tagging. The firm was caught claiming fees for people who had died or gone abroad.
