The GMB has designed an interactive website paypinch.org which highlights past and potential future losses to public service pay if the government continue with the pay cap.
The report will be submitted to Government.
Graham McDermott
Senior Organiser
Download the Penny Pinch Report here
Seven years into the public sector pay squeeze and our worst fears have been realised.
Real terms cuts to public sector pay aren’t just failing our members.
They’re failing everyone who relies on our vital public services.
This report sets out how the pay cap and funding cuts have created a recruitment and retention crisis. We all end up paying more in the end.
Ministers like to talk about pay ‘restraint’ – as if George Osborne had to be held back from properly paying our nurses, teaching assistants and refuse workers.
Let’s call the policy what it really is – a deep cut to our members’ quality of living.
The financial crash wasn’t caused by teaching assistants, council officers or hospital porters. It’s outrageous that they are still expected to pay the price for the banking crisis over a decade later.
The policy has already cost our members thousands of pounds in lost earnings. Enough is enough.
Theresa May and Philip Hammond now have a chance to break with the failed policies of their predecessors, and make sure that helping those ‘just about managing’ actually means something to the UK’s five million strong army of public sector workers.
This isn’t just in our members’ best interests. It’s in the best interests of the country as a whole.
The UK’s public services keep the country on the road. Public sector workers already do more than anyone could reasonably ask.
That’s why GMB stands with them, and it is why we will not rest until we have secured the decent pay deals our members need and deserve.
Rehana Azam
National Secretary, Public Services Section, GMB
Download the Penny Pinch Report here
