Ash Sarkar perfectly sums up Tory hypocrisy on public sector pay
She made the comments on the most recent episode of BBC Question Time
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Human Rights Watch says UK risks being listed as a ‘human rights abuser’
HRW have called it the most ‘significant assault on human rights protections in the UK in decades’.
A damning chart showing how far public sector wages have lagged behind the private sector
ONS data shows that private sector pay grew 6.9% between August and October 2022 while public sector pay grew 2.7%
PCS announces one-day strike of 100,000 civil servants
‘We warned the government our dispute would escalate if they did not listen’
HMRC failed to collect £42bn in UK tax last year, MPs say
“The eye-watering £42bn now owed to HMRC in unpaid taxes would have filled a lot of this year’s infamous public spending black hole”
Unions plan ‘day of action’ to fight for the right to strike
Trade unions to hold national ‘protect the right to strike’ day as anger over the government’s anti-strike bill escalates.
Mick Lynch makes Tory MP look utterly clueless during questions at Select Committee
“What about the days when we’re not on strike, when it’s absolutely useless as well?”.
Unions call out ‘mistruths’ over ambulance minimum service levels
Union representatives label Grant Shapps claim that ambulance minimum safety levels were not being met on strike days as ‘seriously misleading’.
‘They’ve gone from clapping the nurses to sacking the nurses’, Sunak roasted at PMQs by Keir Starmer
“The simple truth is you can’t legislate your way out of 13 years of failure.”
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