The Socialist 27 April 2010

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Heading for a coalition government?

Fund a political alternative to the establishment parties

Filthy rich get richer

World's most unequal city

Greek crisis

No trust

A 'beacon of hope' in Gateshead

STUSC candidates speak

Press try to gag socialists in Walthamstow campaign

Debt balloons go up in Brighton Kemptown

Cleaning up in Cardiff

Extremes of rich and poor in Swansea

Campaign hots up in Lewisham

"That makes real sense to me"

TUSC: 'Hear your candidate' meetings

Jobs not cuts

Can the Greens help provide a left alternative?

Housing in crisis: Bankers rob people

Nottingham city council: Shocking new cuts!

Unison health conference

Glasgow CSG workers fight pay freeze

Three years of wage cuts for council workers

Strike at Northumberland College

Workplace news in brief

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Three years of wage cuts for council workers

Tens of thousands of low paid council workers across Scotland are facing three years of cuts in wages following their employer's (CoSLA) pay offer.

With inflation rates for the year to March 2010 at 3.4% and 4.4% (depending on which figure is used) CoSLA's offer of 1% for 2010, 0% for 2011 and 0.5% for 2012 represents year-on-year pay cuts for more than 150,000 workers in Scotland.

Jim McFarlane, the Dundee West Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (STUSC) candidate and himself a council worker and a Unison trade union activist said: "An unholy alliance of politicians from all the main parties have the gall to offer hard-pressed and often low paid staff the insult of three years of cuts in wages.

"This is yet another example of the big business parties seeking to make ordinary workers pay for an economic crisis we did nothing to create."

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