Interserve strike action vote results imminent

Results of a ballot on strike action by Interserve employees maintaining Liverpool City Council's housing stock are expected today (Wednesday 8 October).
TGWU national secretary Bob Blackman said that action taken by the company in a bid to influence the vote had been referred to his union's legal department (CJ 1 October).
He claimed that Interserve had been sending out its own dummy ballot forms already filled in with an X in the box recording a "no" vote on industrial action.
He said it was also stamping workers' pay slips with the slogan "say no to industrial action". However, this was strongly denied by Interserve.
Head of corporate communications Giles Scott said: "We did put out a message saying 'use your vote', but we certainly did not tell staff to vote against industrial action.
"We are, however, hoping that, because it is in their best interests, staff will vote against industrial action."
The ballot is being conducted by the Electoral Reform Society.
Strike action is threatened over redundancies resulting from a cut in the council's budget for maintenance of its 20,000 houses.