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Government considering above inflation public sector pay rises
Independent pay review bodies are said to have recommended a 5.5% pay rise.
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Keir Starmer says public sector reform will be a struggle
The Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer has announced that Labour will spend nearly two billion pounds on upgrading Britain’s ports. The money would come in part from his planned increase in the windfall tax on oil and gas companies.
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Public sector pay rise: Is it enough?
Dr Vivek Trivedi, the co-chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee, Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents health service employers and Anita Smith, a teacher at a secondary school in North Leeds.
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Sunak offers pay rise to millions of public sector workers
Within minutes of the government confirming that they’d accepted the recommendations of the pay review bodies, the teaching unions in England had called off their strikes.
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Sunak says public sector pay review will be ‘fair’ as unions plan more strikes
Another teaching union in England says its members have voted to strike in the autumn over pay and workload.
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What does less government borrowing mean for public sector pay?
The Chancellor could find himself borrowing tens of billions of pounds less than expected this year. So what does that mean for the public finances? Could the public sector get its pay rise? Economics reporter Neil Macdonald explains.
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Public sector workers ‘desperate’ and worried about feeding their families, Union boss says
We spoke to Mark Serwotka, the General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union which represents Border Force staff among others and asked him if he was concerned the British public would tire of strike action, not least over Christmas?
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Burnham calls for pay freeze at top of private and public sectors
The mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, is at the ‘Enough is Enough’ rally.
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Liz Truss abandons plans to cut public sector pay
Conservative Party leadership candidate Liz Truss has abandoned plans to cut almost £9 billion from public sector pay in cheaper regions outside London – after furious senior Conservative MPs warned her it would hit nurses, police officers and teachers hard. Rishi Sunak’s campaign has called it a dramatic U-turn on a policy she announced just…
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New pay offer for public sector actually ‘pay cut’ say unions
More than a million NHS staff will get a pay rise of at least £1400 under the Government’s new public sector pay offer.
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‘Everything is in favour of the rich’ – growing list of public sector workers ready to strike over pay
The list of professions planning industrial action is growing every day.
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The numbers behind why public sectors workers are striking
Alongside the rail dispute, arguments over pay are building across the public sector.
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Public sector pay freeze is ‘insulting to those workers to have stepped above and beyond’, says Fire Brigades Union official
Mark Chapman is a Hampshire firefighter and a Fire Brigades Union official.
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Union warns of industrial action over chancellor’s expected public sector pay freeze
Union leaders say that will lead to widespread anger and they have warned that industrial action can’t be ruled out.
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Public sector borrowing hits more than £2 trillion
With much of the economy still in limbo, it is perhaps not surprising that the UK’s debt has reached historic levels.
