Union vows to smash UK gov’t. pay policy

June 20th, 2012

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“We are putting the Government on notice. Our demand is for decent pay. If we cannot win through negotiation we will fight to win it through strike action. We will smash the pay freeze,” Unison general secretary Dave Prentis told the union’s annual conference in Bournemouth on Tuesday.

Prentis also pledged to make the October 20 demonstration in London the biggest ever rally in British history to fight the “squeeze” on pay, which has seen council, health and other workers get meager one percent rises over the past two years.

The union leader, who earlier smashed a meter-high frozen pound sign as a symbol of shattering the pay freeze, also warned that the current policies bring “misery” to people and condemn the chances of economic recovery “to the dustbin.”

“Putting pay on ice has been devastating for public sector workers and their families. It cannot go on and we will not let it go on,” Prentis said.

“People are turning against the austerity agenda, and on October 20 we will bring together groups opposed to what the Government is doing to the NHS, pay and jobs. Half a million people took part in last year’s TUC march, but this one will be the biggest demonstration this country has ever seen. The pay policy will explode – and we will make sure that it does,” he added.

Prentis’ warning comes as Britain has been hit by a massive wave of strikes by bus drivers, police officers, teachers and border agency staff, among others, over the government’s austerity measures and its changes to pays and pensions over recent months and unions are promising even more disruption.

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