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24-Apr-08 11:15 [Pay and Reward]
Unions increase pressure on Brown
Trade unions have insisted that the prime minister Gordon Brown increases the public sector pay after he scrapped he 10p tax rate.
Mr Brown is also under heavy pressure from his own MPs for his controversial decision to abolish the tax rate.
Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) general secretary Mark Serwotka said: "It is a disgrace that low paid civil and public servants, who have endured damaging job cuts, office closures and privatisation, are now seeing their living standards cut by below-inflation pay rises."
He added that on top of this, the scrapping of the 10p tax rate affects directly "many of the low paid civil and public sector workers who are our members".
Around 2,500 members of the Unite union have gone on strike over pay in London, causing 80 of the city's bus routes to grind to a halt for the next 24 hours.
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A recently-published study has noted that employee happiness is more dependent on a person's wage in relation to contemporaries and workmates than absolute pay.
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In an open letter to the Times, Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) union boss Bob Crow has rebuked claims made by the newspaper after recent developments in worker disagreements with Tubelines, the London Underground operator.
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