Waste workers employed by Barking and Dagenham Council in East London are taking industrial action to try to prevent the implement of a £1000 (€1385) cut to their pay. While receiving solid support from the local community, the strikers, members of the GMB union have faced intimidation by the Council who have brought security guards with dogs to the pickets lines.
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