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Unison leader Dave Prentis
“SERIOUS problems” in public services will get worse if wages continue to fall behind the cost of living, the Unison union has warned in a letter to Boris Johnson.
General secretary Dave Prentis wrote to the Prime Minister urging him to invest in public-sector workers after years of pay cuts and job losses.
Mr Prentis said the new PM had a “duty” to take action to ease the financial strain on workers, whose income is slipping further behind as the cost of living rises.
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
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