UK inflation has again skyrocketed to nearly 12 per cent, now reaching a 40-year record high, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The ONS published figures…Read more…
Decent public sector pay rise is crucial as inflation climbs ever higher
New price-rise figures show illustrate need for pay boost
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Inflation leaps to highest on record
As real terms inflation (the RPI) crashes into double–digits at 11.1 per cent, the leader of the Unite union hit back at demands for wage restraint, saying that calls for reflection should be…Read more…
Ministers must do much more to support the hard-up as inflation hits another high, says UNISON
Boost to public sector wages and benefits are a must
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Inflation surge continues
New inflation figures published today (April 13) reveal that the CPI inflation rate has soared to 7 per cent in the year to March, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The latest…Read more…
Blog: UK government can – and must – act on cost of living
HMRC mileage rates are woefully out of date and sorting this out is just one way to help struggling workers
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Government must act to relieve the relentless pressure on household incomes, says UNISON
A decent pay rise might prove just enough to persuade key workers to stay.
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‘A crisis not of our making’
Unite members will continue to fight for substantial pay increases to protect their already squeezed living standards as inflation continues to soar, according to the latest figures published today…Read more…
Squeezing wages won’t halt soaring living costs, says UNISON
Christina McAnea says government must deliver the cash for above-inflation wage rises
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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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Economic forecasters to strike
Economists and researchers at the world famous NIESR (National Institute of Economic and Social Research) will stage a two week strike in a row over two years of below inflation pay offers. The…Read more…
Economic forecasters in strike vote
Economic forecasters at the NIESR (National Institute for Social and Economic Research) are predicting a high probability of strike action at the leading think tank in a dispute over inflation. The…Read more…
Below inflation pay rises are a wage cut
Sharon Graham says below inflation rises are a wage cut with workers paying the price of the pandemic. Unite’s general secretary Sharon Graham says the union will continue to base claims on the RPI…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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Public service workers are falling way behind spiralling living costs
Rocketing inflation leaves staff struggling and harms recruitment
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‘Tis the season?
Tis’ the season where advertising for Christmas gifts and festive food goes into overdrive – unfortunately the same can’t be said for people’s frozen wages. Office for National Statistics…Read more…
UNISON responds to latest inflation figures
Commenting today (Tuesday) on the rise in inflation, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “With inflation at its highest level in six years, many public service workers are facing a bleak…Read more…
UNISON comments on latest inflation figures
The government needs to take action in next week’s budget
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Just ‘grow more food’?
Ministers need to stop misleading the public over the impact of a hard Brexit, Unite has said, after transport secretary Chris Grayling claimed farmers could simply grow more food if the UK crashes…Read more…