UPDATE: A six-week bin strike at Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council abcb_council is to be suspended
A six-week strike at Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council is to be suspended.A special council meeting on Tuesday had approved a pay deal for council staff, brokered by the Labour Relations Agency.
More than 1,000 local government workers from GMB, Unite and the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance were involved in industrial action. "We'll go out to ballot our members early next week but we are recommending that they accept the deal."Alan Perry, GMB, said: "Hopefully the bins and the rubbish will start to get lifted tomorrow.
However, the DUP group on the council said it was concerned about the affordability of the pay deal and said it could cause a "double-digit rates increase".