BOE Pay Dispute Escalates to Strike as Staff Appeal to Carney
- Unite members in maintenance, security, Parlours back action
- Wage row follows weaker-than-inflation pay rises, union says
Wages and staff morale have long been issues at the BOE.
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Bank of England facilities staff voted to go on strike over pay in the first action of its kind at the central bank in 50 years, according to a labor union.
Ninety-five percent of Unite’s members in maintenance, security and the private offices of senior officials at the BOE -- known as the Parlours -- backed industrial action between July 31 and Aug. 3, Britain’s biggest labor union said in an emailed statement. It called on Governor Mark Carney to personally intervene and said it may escalate the plan if management fails to resolve the disagreement.