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Time for Cable to plug the gap on pay ratios
TweetDuncan Exley is the campaign director for One Society Among the subjects Vince Cable is likely to be considering as he prepares for the Liberal Democrat conference is that of executive pay. The...
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“We’re all in this together”– when ‘we’ means the bottom 80%
TweetThe small print of the chancellor’s autumn statement shows that the totality of tax, tax credit and benefit measures adopted by the coalition government or carried over from the previous Labour...
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Osborne’s mini-budget takes £1.7bn from women
TweetLabour has hit out today at the extent to which George Osborne’s autumn statement will affect women, releasing evidence which shows that of the £2.37 billion raised by the freeze in working tax...
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The 12 practical problems of localising public sector pay
Tweet Neil Foster is the policy and campaigns officer for northern TUC Today business secretary Vince Cable has warned of the “practical problems” of localising public sector pay bargaining. He is...
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Poll: Regional public sector pay differentiation unfair and will harm economy
Tweet . A new poll today reveals public opposition to the government’s plans for public sector pay differentiation, believing them to be both unfair and harmful to regional economies. As Chart 1...
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Time for university fat cats to sup from the “efficiency” bowl
Tweet . By Zain Sardar, Young Green student support officer Will Hutton published his fair pay report (pdf), commissioned by the government, in March 2011. Looking into the extent of wage...
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Three things you should know about Jeremy Hunt’s pop at excessive NHS...
TweetGuillermo Thomas is a freelance journalist based in London Who could disagree with the secretary of state’s outrage at the extortionate salaries some NHS staff are earning? Did they really need to...
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The government has once again shown its contempt for NHS staff
TweetMatt Dykes is senior policy officer for public services at TUC This is turning into a terrible week for the NHS. Following the Commons vote for the hospital closure clause on Tuesday, the...
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Public sector pay – did the government massage the statistics to make its case?
TweetUsing a statistical sleight of hand, the government is trying to disguise the full horror of what’s happening to public sector pay The July 10 public sector strikes provoked a bitter war of words,...
View ArticleDespite what Hammond says, public sector workers are worse off since 2010 –...
Public sector workers are worse off since 2010, the TUC has said. The TUC has released new analysis showing real wages have been slashed by thousands of pounds thanks to rising inflation and the public...
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Public sector workers do £11bn of unpaid overtime every year
Nearly 2 million public sector workers are doing £11bn worth of unpaid overtime every year, the GMB union revealed today. A quarter of public sector staff do on average eight hours of unpaid work a...
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The Tories are preparing to do a U-turn on seven years of public sector pay...
It looks like the government is about to make a U-turn on the 1 per cent public sector pay cap that’s caused “pay misery” for the past seven years. They should act quickly before yet more damage is...
View ArticleOsborne’s mini-budget takes £1.7bn from women
Labour has hit out today at the extent to which George Osborne’s autumn statement will affect women, releasing evidence which shows that of the £2.37 billion raised by the freeze in working tax...
View ArticleThe 12 practical problems of localising public sector pay
Neil Foster is the policy and campaigns officer for northern TUC Today business secretary Vince Cable has warned of the “practical problems” of localising public sector pay bargaining. He is right to...
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Poll: Regional public sector pay differentiation unfair and will harm economy
. A new poll today reveals public opposition to the government’s plans for public sector pay differentiation, believing them to be both unfair and harmful to regional economies. As Chart 1 shows, 56...
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Time for university fat cats to sup from the “efficiency” bowl
. By Zain Sardar, Young Green student support officer Will Hutton published his fair pay report (pdf), commissioned by the government, in March 2011. Looking into the extent of wage differentials...
View ArticleThree things you should know about Jeremy Hunt’s pop at excessive NHS...
Guillermo Thomas is a freelance journalist based in London Who could disagree with the secretary of state’s outrage at the extortionate salaries some NHS staff are earning? Did they really need to pay...
View ArticleThe government has once again shown its contempt for NHS staff
Matt Dykes is senior policy officer for public services at TUC This is turning into a terrible week for the NHS. Following the Commons vote for the hospital closure clause on Tuesday, the government...
View ArticlePublic sector pay – did the government massage the statistics to make its case?
Using a statistical sleight of hand, the government is trying to disguise the full horror of what’s happening to public sector pay The July 10 public sector strikes provoked a bitter war of words, with...
View ArticleJon Trickett MP: Why we need an inflation-proofed pay increase for public...
At the Autumn Budget, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced ‘the public sector pay freeze is over’ and that ‘public sector workers will receive a fair and affordable pay rise’ in the coming year....
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