Union will not rule out strikes

Monday 21st April 2008, 2:29PM BST.

Manual workers met at Beau Sejour last week to discuss their pay claim.

STRIKE action by public sector workers cannot be ruled out.

‘People are on poverty wages at the moment,’ said Unite regional industrial organiser Ron Le Cras. ‘There is a possibility of industrial action, but we are trying to avoid that at present,’ he said.

Mr Le Cras said that deputies had been sent information following the workers’ refusal of the States offer of a 3% pay rise. It has been revealed that hundreds of States employees are receiving pay below the island’s poverty line.