"The force will hugely struggle to cope with several days' worth of action, but the Met must revise its pay offer to one acceptable to our members to prevent this from happening."
"It is completely wrong that our members at the Met are the only police staff in the UK that have not had a pay rise. It is immoral to tell them that in order to get the same pay increase as their counterparts elsewhere they will be expected to accept worse conditions."
One hundred seventy-five Metropolitan Police staff represented by Unite will strike for six days from 19 to 24 January. The group includes call handlers who record crime reports, technicians, and office staff who service and dispatch police vehicles. The action follows a 25-hour strike on New Year's Eve which the union said caused major disruption including delays in call-outs. Unite says members were offered a pay rise inferior to the 4.2% received by other UK police officers and staff, and that a 4.2% offer was conditional on relinquishing current terms and conditions. Members rejected provisional offers of 3.8% or a conditional 4.2%.
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