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June 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda During the opening session of the union’s conference in Bournemouth on Tuesday, Unison general secretary Dave Prentis is expected to attack the UK government’s public sector pay policy, wage freezes and caps for council, health and other public sector workers.
The union, which represents more than 1.3 million people, published a survey to coincide with its national conference, revealing a devastating blow to its members’ quality of life, with nearly half of those surveyed seeing their household income falling and a quarter describing their financial situation as “difficult” or “struggling to survive”.
The union’s report also revealed that almost a third of respondents have increased credit card borrowing and 73 percent have reduced spending on food.
“Times were tough last year but this year they have got a whole lot worse,” Prentis will say.
“The government should wake up to the damage its cuts policies are inflicting on working people.
He will also tell Unison’s annual conference that the pay of local government workers has been frozen for three years while bosses in the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index (FTSE 100) enjoyed 10 percent pay rises last year taking average earnings to £3.7m.
“While the government’s friends in the City get richer and richer, the rest of the country is struggling to make ends meet,” he will add.
Furthermore, Prentis is expected to warn that the union will “smash the pay freeze” that workers across the public sector have endured, aiming to campaign with other unions that represent public service staff to end the current pay freeze.
“The pay freeze has been devastating for public sector workers and their families. It cannot go on and we will not let it go on. Our demand is for decent pay,” he will say.
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