Responding to today’s (Friday) report from the Policy
Exchange, which calls for the government to abolish national pay bargaining in
the public sector, Midlands TUC Regional Secretary Rob Johnston said:
“Cutting pay in those parts of the country sharing least in
the much delayed and rather shallow recovery makes no economic sense. It will
make the north-south divide even greater. And it will make inequality within
regions greater too, as the biggest losers from these proposals will be
low-paid staff in the public sector who will suffer big pay cuts as their pay
is pushed down towards the minimum wage.
“We should be spreading the living wage in both public and
private sectors, not listening to these divisive and unfair proposals from
well-off London think tank wonks who never need to worry how to make ends meet
each week.”
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