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HARD-PRESSED Civil Service workers delivered a birthday message to Scottish Finance Minister Derek Mackay yesterday, demanding an end to the “unsustainable” public-sector pay cap.
Public-service union PCS members gathered in Edinburgh to hand deliver a card to the birthday boy signed by hundreds of Scottish government workers, which read: “Share a piece of the cake with your employees.”
Under pressure from trade unions and from Labour’s general election pledge to lift the 1 per cent cap, Mr Mackay confirmed last month that the cap would not feature in next year’s pay policy.
In part IV of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells how austerity minister Francis Maude’s attempt to destroy the PCS Civil Service union totally backfired
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people
RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society
Under current policy, welfare cuts are just a small downpayment on future austerity, argues MICHAEL BURKE