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LABOUR’S decision to keep cutting the Fire & Rescue service budget is ominous.
It reveals two things about this government which the trade union movement needs to change.
One: austerity is not over. Labour’s Budget last year was mixed, including some increases in funding for the National Health Service, local government and devolved nations. It has raised the minimum wage, and settled a number of industrial disputes with above-inflation pay awards.
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