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Teaching assistants and support staff at various schools in Birmingham, England, voted in favor of strike action after the Birmingham City Council allegedly failed to pay equal pay claims. Workers at thirty-five schools in the Birmingham area are set to take strike action, but a date has not been announced yet. Workers are represented by the GMB union, and the union stated that the city council was supposed to pay female employees wages to make up for the wage disparity between females and males. The union claims that not a single worker has been paid these wages, but the Birmingham City Council is asking the union to work with them to resolve this issue. The union countered that discussion about equal pay issues began in 2021, and workers were no longer going to wait to receive the wages they rightfully deserve.