| The dispute centres on the council's attempts to derecognise our union and end facility time for our branch officers. |
| Union members are worried that the company might try to derecognise the union. |
| Management try to impose a back to work agreement which would rip up national agreements and in effect derecognise the union. |
| The council arrogantly believed ordinary staff would not respond to the strike call but they finally realised that we would not allow the council to derecognise our union. |
| Management has tried to go on the offensive, suspending workers for refusing to carry out duties not in their job description and threatening to derecognise the union. |
| It tried to derecognise the union there in the 1980s, and only backed down after a strike vote. |
