£1 an hour – Local Government Pay Claim 2014

Pay Claim: Seven reasons why our pay claim is fair and just

1. Local government workers have suffered an 18% cut in wages since 2010

A pay freeze and eight years of below inflation pay rises since 1997 mean thousands of local government workers, from across the pay scale, are struggling to make ends meet.

2. Local government: the worst pay and conditions in the public sector

Over half a million, mostly women, mostly part-timers, earn less than the Living Wage. Only in local government and local authority schools are large numbers of public sector employees paid so poorly. No one in local government earns as much for the job they do as other public sector workers doing equivalent jobs elsewhere.

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