Labour councillors reacted with fury over ‘scandalous and outlandish’ claims about trade union funding as a town hall row threatned to boil over.
It came at Rochdale council’s annual budget setting meeting, where the Conservatives called for £100k in union support to be cut and spent on improving community safety.
Labour staunchly defended the funding – claiming they had provided ‘academic evidence’ that unions save councils money by reducing workplace injuries and illnesses as well as cutting down tribunal payouts.
But Tory leader Ashley Dearnley said it ‘could not be right’ that the ‘hard working, lowest paid, poorest people’ in the borough should have their money spent on a union that represents 30pc of the council’s workforce.
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