Public Sector Pay Rises Won’t Satisfy Union Ambition
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Julian Jessop quoted in The Mirror
Len Shackleton quoted in The Telegraph
Len said:
“The deals may temporarily buy off some of the most obvious industrial disputes. But there are plenty more in the queue for higher pay in the public and quasi-public sectors – civil servants, local authority employees, universities and hundreds of quangos.
“The Government’s hope that these big payoffs will dampen down the explosion of trade union militancy since the end of lockdown is rather optimistic. The planned trade union legislation will make it easier for unions to strike…
“Unions have long memories, and will not be satisfied with a one-off settlement. They will aim to outstrip inflation permanently and will be back again and again for higher pay. Activists long to roll back the years to the pre-Thatcher era when militants ruled, and the wind is in their sails.”
Read the full article here.
Len was also quoted in The Daily Express and Yahoo! Finance.