TUC’s Britain Needs a Pay Rise event set for October
12 February 2014
The TUC is organising a mass demonstration in London this autumn to call attention to what is being called “the biggest squeeze on incomes since Victorian times”.
Wed, 12 Feb 2014The TUC is organising a mass demonstration in London this autumn to call attention to what is being called “the biggest squeeze on incomes since Victorian times”.
In a statement released on Tuesday (11 February), the TUC said that the return of growth to the UK economy should result in better pay for workers.
“We may have the return of growth, but recovery is passing most people by. We will only have a recovery fair for all when living standards get back to their pre-crash level. And for that to happen Britain needs a pay rise,” said TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady in the statement.
TUC research suggests that as many as four-fifths of the jobs created since the election have been in parts of the economy where the average wage is less than £8 an hour.
Rather than see more and more of these low-paid jobs created, unions are calling for the UK recovery to be built on “decent, well-paid, secure employment”, the statement said.
The statement went on to say: “With people facing the biggest squeeze on their incomes since Victorian times, and with official figures out last month showing that wages have fallen in real terms every year since 2010, the TUC believes that as growth returns, everyone should get to share in the recovery.”
The Britain Needs a Pay Rise demonstration will take place on 18 October, with a march through Central London, culminating in a rally in Hyde Park.
In a statement released on Tuesday (11 February), the TUC said that the return of growth to the UK economy should result in better pay for workers.
“We may have the return of growth, but recovery is passing most people by. We will only have a recovery fair for all when living standards get back to their pre-crash level. And for that to happen Britain needs a pay rise,” said TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady in the statement.
TUC research suggests that as many as four-fifths of the jobs created since the election have been in parts of the economy where the average wage is less than £8 an hour.
Rather than see more and more of these low-paid jobs created, unions are calling for the UK recovery to be built on “decent, well-paid, secure employment”, the statement said.
The statement went on to say: “With people facing the biggest squeeze on their incomes since Victorian times, and with official figures out last month showing that wages have fallen in real terms every year since 2010, the TUC believes that as growth returns, everyone should get to share in the recovery.”
The Britain Needs a Pay Rise demonstration will take place on 18 October, with a march through Central London, culminating in a rally in Hyde Park.
