Labour Hands Inflation-Busting Pay Rises to Public Sector Workers – Guido Fawkes

Labour Hands Inflation-Busting Pay Rises to Public Sector Workers

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A slew of pay awards today as Labour accepts public sector pay recommendations made by review bodies. They are:

• Teachers: 4%
• Senior civil servants: 3.25%. The PCS has just voted to ballot for strike action…
• Junior doctors: 4% plus £750.
• Consultant doctors: 4%
• Nurses, rest of NHS staff: 4%
• Armed Forces: 4.5%
• Prison officers: 4%

Pay increases have so far had little effect on stalling public sector productivity. In a sign of what’s to come from the unions the BMA says the doctors’ pay increase are “woefully inadequate” and “derisory.” Summer of fun on the way…