It’s likely consumers will be paying back their £200 loans when energy bills are still sky-high.
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‘Catastrophe for millions of people’
The cost of living crisis facing households across the UK is set to intensify drastically after the energy regulator Ofgem today (February 3) confirmed a unprecedented 54 per cent increase in the…Read more…
Construction workers pursue pay rise
Unions, led by Unite, the UK’s leading construction union, have submitted a pay claim to the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) seeking a 10 per cent pay increase in a bid to redress pay cuts…Read more…
Government must ensure pay in key services is high enough to halt staff exodus, says UNISON
Frontline services, already struggling with a crushing number of vacancies, are losing employees at alarming rates.
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‘Cost of living catastrophe’
As the CPI measure of inflation today was revealed to have climbed to an astonishing 5.4 per cent, Unite says real scale of crisis is revealed in RPI rise to 7.5 per cent – a more accurate…Read more…
Inflation rise terrible news for families and public services, says UNISON
The soaring cost of living means growing anxiety for low-income families.
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Unite blasts OVO energy bosses
With one in four jobs at stake, Unite demands company bosses must ‘open the books’ before any negotiations can take place. Union chiefs say OVO bosses have precipitated the crisis by “blundering and…Read more…
Rising prices have left public service pay ‘well and truly behind’, says UNISON
Pay awards and wage offers significantly below the cost of living will do nothing to address the growing staffing crises in health and care
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“Out of touch speech” shows PM has no idea of the issues affecting ordinary families, says UNISON
Public sector staff mustn’t see their pay slip further behind
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Poorest will be hardest hit by lack of government energy plan, says UNISON
Intervention needed to prevent heating or eating choices
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‘Not a real living wage’
Low-paid workers will have little to celebrate today (April 1) as a minimum wage rise of 19p an hour is rendered meaningless by rising living costs such as increases in council tax, and energy and…Read more…
The difference a Living Wage makes
One in five people working in the UK do not earn enough to live on – that’s about 5m people earning below the Living Wage, a rate calculated by an independent foundation to reflect the real cost of…Read more…
Interest rates rise is the last thing public servants need
Rate rise adds insult to injury for public service employees suffering from years of wage freezes and limits on their pay
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‘Sky high’ rents
Britain’s housing crisis turned up a notch in August after rents increased by 2.4 per cent, the highest increase this year. Families are now dishing out an average of £939 a month to keep a…Read more…
Pay up
Caving into public pressure, the government announced yesterday (September 12) that it will finally put an end to the public sector pay cap, first giving police and prison officers a pay rise now,…Read more…
General election 2017: pay and the cost of living
With just a few days to go, UNISON looks at what the main parties have to say on the issues most important to our members
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Why aren’t wages rising?
Today’s labour market figures presented yet another iteration of the puzzle of the UK labour market in recent years: why are higher employment rates not pushing up wages? Traditional labour market theory tells us that as unemployment falls, workers feel more secure in their jobs and more able to…Read more…
Why all the political parties should be talking about pay, jobs and rights?
What’s at stake for working people in this election? Economic issues increasingly risk being the dog that didn’t bark in this election. The 2015 campaign saw a fierce debate about the figures, whether on the scale of the cost-of-living crisis or the size of the deficit, at the centre of parties’…Read more…
USDAW COST OF LIVING SURVEY
On the 20-22 April the STUC Congress will be meeting in Ayr. The theme of this year’s Congress is Decent Work and Dignified Lives. In the run up to Congress this blog will host a series of…Read more…