More refuse collection workers are to go on strike amid a growing number of pay disputes across the country.
Members of the GMB union in Barrow and Wiltshire are to take industrial action in the coming weeks in separate rows.
Workers in Barrow employed by FCC Environment voted unanimously to walk out.
They will strike for six days from March 9 to 11 and again from March 16 to 18.
GMB official Michael Hall said: “Barrow refuse collectors are angry. Despite inflation running sky high bosses won’t even give them a three per cent pay rise so they can make ends meet.
“Thanks to their penny-pinching, the people of Barrow face the massive disruption of a bin strike.”
Refuse collection workers in Wiltshire, employed by Hills Waste Solutions, will strike on February 28, in a move the union said will affect more than 250,000 homes.
Nicola Nixon, GMB regional organiser, said: “Time is running out if Hills want to get back around the table to discuss our members’ pay expectations of a seven per cent pay increase before any possible major disruption of waste and recycling collections for more than 250,000 homes.”
They are the latest in a series of disputes involving refuse collection workers across the country.
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