Holding back wages will damage our public services - The Guardian 17th January 2008

A below-inflation pay cap risks undoing the advances Labour has made in the past decade, says Gail Cartmail As the Guardian reported, the government has continued to insist on a pay cap for public sector workers as part of its "determined effort to contain inflationary pressures" (Three-year pay deals planned for public sector, January 9). Union opposition is not to multi-year pay deals in principle, but instead to the notion that public sector pay is the prime culprit for rising inflation, and to Gordon Brown's argument that awarding a pay cut in real terms last year "helped to break the back of inflation".

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