Mike Walker, director of negotiations at the Employers' Organisation for local government, was speaking as the Community and Youth Workers' Union prepares to ballot its members on strike action over pay and qualification levels (YPN, 12-18 November, p2).
Walker said: "There are problems with recruitment and retention, but recruitment rates are higher than turnover."
The union's general secretary, Doug Nicholls, blasted employers, saying: "They don't have a handle on the facts." New members of the employers' side of the Joint Negotiating Committee for Youth and Community Workers are due to be in place by December.
See Numbers game, p5.
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