Unions slam government in reaction to latest inflation figures
“Workers are sick of seeing their living standards fall”
“Workers are sick of seeing their living standards fall”
Unlike in the private sector, the public sector cannot increase its costs for consumers to make up for the higher wages.
The PM’s comments for workers to accept pay cuts or UK faces 1970s-style ‘stagflation’, have been blasted as ‘nonsense.’
Germany’s giant IG Metall union has secured an inflation-busting pay increase of 4.3% for engineers and metal workers.