UNISON members: 5 reasons to go on strike 14 October

UNISON members: 5 reasons to go on strike

 

1. You can’t afford another pay and pension cut

The current government offer leaves most workers with pay worth almost 20% less than in 2010. Falling pay also means loss of pension for the rest of your life.

2. You are worth fair pay for the work you do

Your pay and conditions are the worst in the public sector – from top to bottom.

3. Taking another pay cut won’t save jobs and services

Despite a pay freeze, jobs have gone and services continue to be stripped to the bone, privatised or stopped all together. There’s no reason to believe a pay cut will stop this.

4. All this will continue unless we act now

Low pay is bad for workers and bad for the economy. That’s why politicians from all parties are calling for an end to low pay. Many local government workers rely on benefits to pay bills. Right now, the taxpayer is subsidising local government to pay poverty wages.

5. Our claim for a minimum of £1 more an hour for all is affordable

Paying all local government workers a living wage will boost Treasury coffers by around £0.9bn every year from increased tax and national insurance take – shifting many off in-work benefits and reducing the bill to taxpayers.