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PUBLIC-SECTOR workers’ unions were angered today after reports of the government’s “last-gasp” attempt to curry favour with an austerity-hit workforce through a meagre pay rise for teachers, police officers and other employees emerged.
The Treasury is reportedly set to unveil the biggest public-sector wage increase for six years — worth £2 billion — after years of pay caps.
It would affect two million workers and any announcement would reportedly come just before Theresa May leaves Downing Street.
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
Unions slam use of review bodies and long-term decline in value of wages
