PROFITEERING bosses will face a summer of strikes unless they stop attacking workers’ living standards “to pay the price of inflation,” Unite general secretary Sharon Graham warned today.

She said tens of thousands of workers will withdraw their labour in hundreds of disputes unless employers drop their “abhorrent” attempts to limit pay rises and instead offer “a proper, fair wage.”

Ms Graham said in a BBC television interview that since she was elected general secretary of Unite 10 months ago, 67,000 of the union’s members have gone on strike, winning pay rises totalling £50 million.