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In November 2009 Leeds City Council put fresh proposals to union members which would see 20 staff getting a pay cut, but most workers receiving small increases. At a secret ballot of about 600 union members on Monday 23 November, 79% voted in favour of the proposals and refuse workers returned to work on the morning of Wednesday 25 November. [4]
The modern city council was established in 1974, with the first elections being held in advance in 1973. Under the Local Government Act 1972, the area of the County Borough of Leeds was combined with those of the Municipal Borough of Morley, the Municipal Borough of Pudsey, Aireborough Urban District, Horsforth Urban District, Otley Urban District, Garforth Urban District, Rothwell Urban ...
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council now has a six bin collection scheme. Food caddy for food waste. Collected weekly. Red box for metal and plastic. Collected weekly. Green box for glass and cardboard. Collected weekly. Blue box for paper, small appliances, batteries, textiles and clothing. Collected weekly. Brown-lid 240L wheelie bin for ...
Rakusen's was founded by a watch maker, Lloyd Rakusen, who started from baking matzos in his own back room and grew to form a factory in the city of Leeds, eventually passing the thriving company onto his family in 1944 on his death. Rakusen's is owned by Andrew Simpson, who took over the company in 2015. [1]
Country Style Foods Limited is a bakery company that manufactures bread, cakes and baked goods, supplying in-store bakeries of major retailers and food service companies. It has its headquarters in the English city of Leeds, with operating sites in Berwick upon Tweed, Bridlington, Grimsby, Kettering, Newcastle upon Tyne, Stockton on Tees and Worcester.
In January 1914, around 300 tenants living in the Burley area of Leeds went on rent strike against a 6d increase in rents imposed by the landlords. A week later, the Leeds Trades Council hosted a Labour conference intended to organise mass rent resistance, and this formed a Tenants' Defence League.
The metropolitan borough is divided into 33 wards, each of which elects three members of Leeds City Council. The ward boundaries were last reorganised in 2004. A map of the wards is available on the council website, [1] as is a postcode-to-ward tool. [2] Leeds is represented by eight Members of Parliament.
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