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TUC 2015: Public-sector workers will strike together to beat cap
THE TORIES will be hit by a fresh wave of strikes and protests in the new year from workers facing four years without a pay rise.
Chancellor George Osborne extended the public-sector pay freeze, imposed when the Tories took office in 2010, until 2019 in his summer Budget.
Unions responded yesterday by calling a campaign to break the pay cap, including “co-ordinated industrial action and mass demonstrations.”
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