Three of Britain’s biggest unions have agreed to escalate their dispute over pay with a coordinated strike in October, days before a massive demonstration against cuts. The three unions – GMB, UNISON and Unite, have agreed that their members will run a coordinated strike of their local government and school members in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on […]
Posts Tagged ‘Public Sector Pay’
Austerity: trade unions agree coordinated strike action on 14 Oct against pay freeze
Aug 3rd, 2014 by John Millington.Respect to Owen Smith and Labour backing for public sector workers’ strike
Jul 8th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.Back in January 2012, just after the Tory-led government announced that public sector pay would be frozen and then rise by only 1% in the two years to 2015, which amounted to a significant pay cut in real terms, Labour’s Ed Balls (without prior consultation, we were informed at the time, with Ed Miliband) announced that […]
Hunt’s attack on NHS pay is provocative, unfair and insulting
Oct 8th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Hunt’s excuse for trying to block the 1% pay increase (when inflation is running at 3%) for 1.3 million NHS workers, due in April next year, doesn’t add up. He says it would cost £0.5bn and the incremental payments which have always been paid annually, which Hunt is also trying to end, would cost £0.7bn, […]
Britain needs a pay rise to kickstart growth
Feb 13th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.On the day when Ed Miliband put the prime minister under severe pressure about declining living standards, newly published figures show that, since the onset of recession in 2008, the real value of wages has fallen by 7%, or more than £50 billion a year. In the same period there’s been a real drop in consumer […]
GMB Congress to give Labour’s leaders a roasting over public sector pay freeze
Feb 14th, 2012 by Jon Lansman.It emerged today that no fewer than one quarter of the motions to the GMB Congress — eighty in all — relate to the political stance of the union. This comes after comments last month from general secretary Paul Kenny who warned that Labour support for real cuts in pay could have a “profound impact” […]
What is Balls up to?
Jan 16th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.What is Ed Balls up to? His statement this weekend, at the Fabian conference, that he endorses Osborne’s public sector wage freeze until the end of this Parliament – possibly 3.5 years away – and accepts all the government’s spending cuts finally crosses a red line. At a time when the central economic problem is […]