CommunityCare | Equality Trust
A Community Care poll of 1,286 votes found that most practitioners (62%) considered the outcome a ‘bad deal’, though opinion was split on where responsibility lay for this outcome. While 35% believed the unions should have balloted for strike action, 27% said union leaders were forced to settle because of member apathy. UNISON has reported that turnout in the consultative ballots was not high enough to trigger a formal strike vote.