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Council staff call for end to falling pay
1.6m workers hit streets over life of poverty and handouts
Underpaid council workers across Britain will take to the streets today with nationwide protests over year-on-year cuts to real earnings.
Up to 1.6 million members of the Unite, GMB and Unison unions will mount protests over what leaders described as a Con-Dem bid to make "scapegoats" out of low-wage workers.
The unions have demanded pay rises of an extra £1.20 an hour and a promise from councils to pay at least the living wage, citing a three-year pay freeze since 2010 and a nominal raise of just 1 per cent last year - barely half inflation.
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