Tories' pay insult will hit women's pockets hardest
Women's Day message ‘another example of how Johnson has failed’
NHS workers at St Thomas' Hospital, London, attending a rally to demand the government give them a 15 per cent pay rise, in August 2020
THREE-QUARTERS of the NHS staff facing a government-imposed pay cut are women, Labour research published last night shows.
And on the eve of International Women’s Day, Labour’s shadow women & equalities secretary Marsha de Cordova delivered a stinging attack on a government “that has consistently failed women.”
As callous ministers doubled down on their “recommendation” of a sub-inflation 1 per cent pay rise for 1.3 million NHS workers, Ms de Cordova said the move risked “further entrenching inequalities long into the future.”
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