20,000 Jobs 'to Go at Council' ; Union: Demand for Showdown Over Axe Rumours

Birmingham Mail › December 04, 2009

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ANGRY union leaders want a showdown with Birmingham's Tory chief Mike Whitby over claims that he intends to axe 20,000 city council jobs.

Rumours of a secret plan to halve the local authority's non- schools workforce within ten years have been circulating for weeks, and now a top Labour councillor claims to have evidence that the savage jobs cull is already under way.

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20,000 Jobs 'to Go at Council' ; Union: Demand for Showdown Over Axe Rumours

Labour councillor Catharine Grundy said today she had been told by council finance officers of a p...

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