Michelle England (Pennine Care Health Branch Secretary) with Christina McAnea (UNISON Head of Health) at the TUC National March/Rally 2014
The Government has faced one of its biggest protests after more than 100,000 workers from the public and private sectors called for a pay rise and an end to austerity.
Following on from the week of strike action over the last week, UNISON Pennine Care Health Branch was proud to join other UNISON and UNION members gathered on the Embankment in London to march through the streets of London with one simple message: “Britain Needs a Pay Rise – We are Worth It”. At 11 o’clock, when the London March was due to start, there was a noisy, colourful carnival atmosphere as UNISON members filled half of the dual carriageway allotted to them. It took an hour and a quarter before the last marchers left the Embankment on their way to the Hyde Park rally.
Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, said 600 public sector jobs had been lost every day since the Coalition came to power.
“We have a story of two nations – one where champagne corks are popping for the bankers and boardroom pay is soaring, while in the other world our people are suffering from poverty pay.”
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said the massive turnout of between 80,000 and 90,000 in London and thousands more in Scotland and Northern Ireland, sent a strong message to the Government that wages have to increase.
She said: “Our message is that, after the longest and deepest pay squeeze in recorded history, it’s time to end the lock-out that has kept the vast majority from sharing in the economic recovery. The average worker is £50 a week worse off than in 2007 and five million earn less than the living wage. Meanwhile, top directors now earn 175 times more than the average worker. We have had enough of boardroom greed and pay cuts – and of politicians telling us this is all the fault of migrant workers.”
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TUC Rally 18 October 2014
Michelle England (Pennine Care Health Branch Secretary) with Christina McAnea (UNISON Head of Health) at the TUC National March/Rally 2014
The Government has faced one of its biggest protests after more than 100,000 workers from the public and private sectors called for a pay rise and an end to austerity.
Following on from the week of strike action over the last week, UNISON Pennine Care Health Branch was proud to join other UNISON and UNION members gathered on the Embankment in London to march through the streets of London with one simple message: “Britain Needs a Pay Rise – We are Worth It”. At 11 o’clock, when the London March was due to start, there was a noisy, colourful carnival atmosphere as UNISON members filled half of the dual carriageway allotted to them. It took an hour and a quarter before the last marchers left the Embankment on their way to the Hyde Park rally.
Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, said 600 public sector jobs had been lost every day since the Coalition came to power.
“We have a story of two nations – one where champagne corks are popping for the bankers and boardroom pay is soaring, while in the other world our people are suffering from poverty pay.”
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said the massive turnout of between 80,000 and 90,000 in London and thousands more in Scotland and Northern Ireland, sent a strong message to the Government that wages have to increase.
She said: “Our message is that, after the longest and deepest pay squeeze in recorded history, it’s time to end the lock-out that has kept the vast majority from sharing in the economic recovery. The average worker is £50 a week worse off than in 2007 and five million earn less than the living wage. Meanwhile, top directors now earn 175 times more than the average worker. We have had enough of boardroom greed and pay cuts – and of politicians telling us this is all the fault of migrant workers.”