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THE Scottish TUC agreed yesterday to draw up an industrial action strategy among unions to break the the Tory-imposed public-sector pay cap.
Congress condemned the pay policy of government in Holyrood and Westminster which means the average public-sector worker in Scotland is losing the equivalent of more than £1,500 per year — a real-terms cut of around 20 per cent.
Unison’s Gordon McKay told delegates it wasn’t just that the Tories don’t like public sector workers.
“In fact it’s far deeper than that — they despise you,” he said.
“Every public-sector worker who delivers world-class public services to the ill, the young or the vulnerable is a barrier to the selling off of these services to the Tory privatisers who see big profits there for the taking and they hate you for it.”
Supporting the call by EIS and PCS for co-ordinated action over pay by public service unions he added: “The most effective way of achieving a successful industrial action strategy is where the unions in this hall work together.”
