Public sector action ‘to go into new year’
Pay will dominate the TUC Congress in Liverpool, which opened yesterday with fresh attacks on the coalition and predictions of strikes and campaigns against Tory plans to clamp down on union activities.
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said promised Conservative manifesto proposals raising the turnout threshold in ballots to 50 per cent would “effectively ban strikes by the back door”.
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Hide AdComments by the head of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) that MPs should receive a 10 per cent pay rise, inflamed the atmosphere further following a controversial decision by the Government not to accept a recommended 1 per cent wage rise for all NHS staff.