PRESS RELEASE – Local Government Employers Association Reject Budget Promise to Low Paid Public Sector Workers
Embargo: Immediate Release (July 1st, 2010)
In the emergency budget, the Chancellor announced a two-year pay freeze for public sector workers from 2011-2012. However, maybe in recognition of how poorly paid we are in the public sector and how worse off the majority of us will be in the new world of Con-Dem Britain, he also said that those earning less than £21,000 per year would receive an extra £250 per year.
Unfortunately, true to form and yet again showing how little the Local Government Employers think of us, they have made it clear to UNISON that they will not pay a single penny extra and that the pay freeze stands unchanged.
Paul Bee, Wokingham UNISON Branch Secretary has the following to say:
The National Employers’ Organisation for Local Government Services refusal to implement the £250 increase agreed in Budget by their political masters to the lowest paid is ridiculous as well as being shameful. Who is running the country and the economy? Is it the Coalition Government or the Local Government employers? Is the employers’ side going to be allowed to show this disregard to public sector workers and the Government, or are they going to be forced to reconsider their arrogant position, with those responsible held to account?
We will be lobbying our local councillors who we hope will encourage the employers’ association to review their current stance.
ENDS
Paul Bee
UNISON Branch Secretary
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