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Underpaid council workers across Britain will take to the streets today with nationwide protests over year-on-year cuts to real earnings.
Up to 1.6 million members of the Unite, GMB and Unison unions will mount protests over what leaders described as a Con-Dem bid to make "scapegoats" out of low-wage workers.
The unions have demanded pay rises of an extra £1.20 an hour and a promise from councils to pay at least the living wage, citing a three-year pay freeze since 2010 and a nominal raise of just 1 per cent last year - barely half inflation.
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
If we can tackle the big issues, like delivering decent public services and affordable state-built and owned housing by making the richest pay a fair amount of tax, Labour can win back the trust and support of the electorate, argues ANDY McDONALD MP
