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It’ll take more than rhetoric to reverse the Tories’ pay cap
Scotland’s workers can’t rely on the SNP to bring about a real change in pay policy, writes LYNN HENDERSON

ALMOST ten years since the crisis of economic greed, ordinary public-sector workers continue to pay the price of bailing out the bankers through wages slashed, cut, frozen and capped.

What a terrible way to treat the people who keep this country running. People that look after our courts, jobcentres, tax offices, schools, hospitals, driving centres, museums, galleries, passport offices, coastguard centres, fire and police stations and borders have seen their standards of living slip.

The services they deliver are run down. Only commitment to the public good drives these workers on.

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