{"id":3000,"date":"2015-02-10T14:40:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T14:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2015-02-10T15:29:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T15:29:21","slug":"pay-rise-pay-ruse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=3000","title":{"rendered":"Pay rise or pay ruse?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So prime minister David Cameron has finally got round to calling on bosses to give staff a pay rise.<\/p>\n

 
\nIn a speech to the British Chambers of Commerce this morning (February 10) Cameron called on Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s business leaders to let workers feel the benefits of his so-called recovery. But the reality is that he is almost at the end of his term as prime minister and all he has to show for it is the rich getting even richer and the rest of us paying the price.<\/p>\n

 
\nJust last week parliament debated the explosion in poverty across the country.<\/a><\/p>\n

 
\nThat debate outlined the reality of ConDem Britain. A rise in food bank use from 3,000 people in 2005 to 40,000 in 2010 has accelerated under the ConDem coalition. The Trussell Trust says<\/a> almost a million people were given three days\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 emergency food in 2013\/14.<\/p>\n

 
\nThen there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the rise in child poverty. Parliament heard there are 500,000 more children living in relative poverty under the coalition, and even more damning 800,000 more in absolute poverty.<\/p>\n

 
\nAnd what hope is there for our youth? The debate also outlined the axing of the education maintenance allowance and the future jobs fund. Tuition fees have tripled and young workers have seen a 10 per cent drop in pay.<\/p>\n

 
\nAnd the world of work is more insecure. As the government heralds the jump in employment it ignores the rise in people employed on zero hours contracts which has jumped to 1.4 million, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on top of the rise in underemployment and the fact that only 1 in 40 net new jobs created was a full time job<\/a>. Yes, just 1 in 40.<\/p>\n

 
\nWorse off<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

 
\nAnd that brings us to pay. Unite has long been arguing that Britain needs a pay rise<\/a>, and the facts show that the average worker is \u00c2\u01412,500 worse off a year since Cameron became PM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 
\nUnder Cameron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s watch nurses, teachers, soldiers, council workers, firefighters, police, civil servants and many more have been denied a proper pay rise with cuts of up to 15 per cent. In the private sector pay has also seen a protracted squeeze.<\/p>\n

 
\nAs Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said, “David Cameron fools nobody with this empty attempt to curry favour with working people, the very group he has hit with his mindless austerity hammer.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

 
\nThe prime minister has had 1,736 days to call for a pay rise, but his own record is one of pay cuts and false promises. Perhaps Cameron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conscience was pricked, or perhaps he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s looking at the polls and realising that his days in Number 10 are numbered\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

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