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Public sector pay strike fears fade Unions have today voted against nationwide strike action over the government's public sector pay policy. But delegates at the four-day TUC conference in Brighton did vote to back mass protests over an annual rise of two per cent. The government's line that pay rises must be capped to combat inflation has been attacked as the price of food and fuel goes up. The Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) has already decided to ballot its 270,000 members for mass strike action, with workers casting their vote after the Labour conference. In his opening remarks to the conference, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said workers were the 'victims of inflation', not the cause. Attacking the "grotesque inequality" he said was rampant in British society he said: "It's not fair that employees are facing a fall in their living standards while top bosses see their pay packets go up by 20 or even 30 per cent. "It's not fair that workers pay proportionately more tax on their earnings than people who earn a hundred or even a thousand times more." Mr Barber added that underpaid workers remained the "scandal that shames our country". The beginning of today's conference has already been hit by the first of Gordon Brown's regional Cabinet meetings, which is being held in Birmingham. PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka told politics.co.uk: "It is all well and good saying that they want to listen but if they came down to Brighton today they would hear the voice of seven million workers who are facing financial misery and hardship at the hands of a government policy which is driving down the pay of hard-working families."  08 September 2008, 10:04 |
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