«All teachers need, and deserve, a pay increase after suffering under years
of public sector pay restraint.
Not exact matches
He said the deficit was still too high, which is why
public sector workers face another year
of pay restraint and welfare spending will be capped from 2015.
Strikes are rare and the decision to lose a day's
pay is never an easy one - especially for
public sector workers who have suffered many years
of pay restraint.»
Gordon Brown today issued a strong defence
of his handling
of the economy, and underlined his tough line by calling yet again for
restraint in
public sector pay rises.
It said: «The union's concern about the political direction
of the Government, as well as the industrial concerns over continued calls for
pay restraint in the
public and private
sectors while inflation busts through the Government's targets.