TUC Congress poised to make pay restoration deals central to government campaigns

UNIONS are set to push the government for above-inflation public sector pay rises at next month’s TUC Congress.
A Public and Commercial Services (PCS) motion on the final agenda calls for pay restoration to be a “a key feature of our campaigning with the new government.”
PCS has said that 650 of its Border Force members working in passport control at Heathrow would strike between August 31 and September 3 and then work to rule until September 22.
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