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UK: Over 600,000 local gov’t workers take part in pay protest
Thu. July 17, 2008 02:40 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. -
(SomaliNet) More than half a million local government workers in United Kingdom were expected to participate in Wednesdays strike as a dispute over pay threatens to paralyse services from education to rubbish collection.
According to experts, with inflation running at its highest in more than a decade, the Labour government has stressed the need for wage restraint to help keep price pressures contained, but public sector workers say they need more cash to offset rising living costs.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown can ill afford to fall out of favour with Labour's traditional trade union supporters as he faces a real risk of defeat in the next election due by May 2010.
"As inflation goes up, you can't keep pushing wages down," said a spokeswoman at leading public sector union, Unison.-Agencies
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