Staff at St Mungo’s are planning to strike again for ten days from next Wednesday in further protest at proposed changes to their pay and conditions.

The charity’s unionised employees have just returned to work after a five-day strike last week but remain unhappy at the management’s position and so have voted for a new ten-day walkout.

Just under half of the charity’s 1,300 employees are members of Unite the Union.

The dispute is now the subject of a House of Commons early day motion sponsored by Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn and signed by 16 MPs.

The latest strike vote was bolstered by the revelation this week that former St Mungo’s chief executive Charles Fraser received a payout of almost £160,000 after he stepped down earlier this year when the organisation merged with Broadway. New CEO Howard Sinclair also got a pay rise of £30,000.

Unite is claiming that changes to the benchmarks used to set pay for new staff - so that their wages are set in line with market rates as opposed to rates set by the National Joint Council, under the charity’s proposals – will mean that salaries for new project workers will fall by 20 per cent to £20,000 a year.”

Unite regional officer Nicky Marcus added: “St Mungo’s property portfolio was valued at £101m 15 years ago and they have continued to buy property ever since. I can only imagine what it is worth today. This is not about there being no money available. It is about a redistribution of wealth.”

St Mungo's Broadway had not responded to enquiries by the time of publication.