In her regular column on the Public Finance blog UNISON national secretary for local government Heather Wakefield lambastes the “sick making and unjustifiable” 0% NJC employers pay ‘offer’ for council workers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland:
“With CPI inflation standing at 2.9% now and predicted to rise up to 5% at some point later this year, what’s on ‘offer’ is a pay cut by any standards. Forget the ‘freeze’ word. The 2010 RPI forecast of 2.4% also falls far behind the Bank of England’s top-end inflation predictions.”
http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/01/the-perfect-pay-storm/
