“The
Bill proves that the government is not on the side of working people. These
unfair changes will make it much harder for nurses, teaching assistants,
midwives and other public sector workers to ever strike for a pay rise or
challenge the behaviour of bad employers.
These
spiteful proposals will deny millions of ordinary workers a voice at work.
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. When unions win a pay rise or safer working conditions for their
members everyone in the workplace gets to benefit.
Democracy
won't be enhanced by vindictively raising thresholds but by modernising
balloting and allowing workers to vote from their phones and tablets.
Tory
MPs who will be getting an 11% pay rise are imposing a 1% pay cap on nurses and
care workers whilst at the same time shackling their ability to challenge this
with a second class form of democracy. Less than 13 per cent of all MPs actually
met the 40% threshold that the government are setting for workers.”
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