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Unite boss criticises council over health visitor dispute

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Unite general secretary Len McCluskey is the latest senior political figure to support health visitors in their pay dispute with Lincolnshire County Council.

Health visitors in the county have already taken 32 days of industrial action and are balloting for further strikes.

They are concerned they have lost more than £2,000 a year since they were transferred under Agenda for Change terms from the NHS to Lincolnshire County Council control in 2017

The head of the UK's second largest union told Conservative Party-controlled Lincolnshire County Council bosses: "You are failing in your public duty to resolve the impasse and pay your health visitors what is theirs."

McCluskey said: "No worker takes strike action lightly, and not least those in the healthcare and caring professions.

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