Blackburn and District Trades Union Council
Blackburn and District Trades Union Council
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has noted that “UK workers are currently enduring the longest pay squeeze in more than 200 years – with average pay still worth £85 a month less than in 2008. And in the public sector average pay is down by £204 a month in real terms compared to 2008″. We…
The British Government, through H.M.Treasury, asserted to the public sector pay review bodies in December 2021 that satisfying public sector pay claims in 2022 would be “inflationary”, and it has stuck to that position ever since. The argument it put forward, however, was not that such settlements would be inflationary in themselves. The proposition, instead,…
January’s Trades Council meeting was held shortly after the Trades Union Congress announced a day of national protest on Wednesday 1st February to “Protect the Right to Strike!”: TUC to hold national ‘protect the right to strike’ day on February 1 | TUC The Government is presenting a “Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill” to Parliament…
2022 ended with several reputable organisations producing Reports emphasising the scale of the “cost of living” pressures facing British workers, which are the root of the current “strike wave”. The International Labour Organisation claimed, in its “Global Wage Report 2022–23”, that “for the first time this century, global real wage growth has become negative while…