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Sunday 25 October 2009

Tax Dodgers Alliance calls for end to national pay bargaining and attacks UNISON‏

Using the Conservativehome website as a platform for its usual anti public service, anti union vitriol, the self styled and shady Taxpayers Alliance reaches new depths in calling for pay cuts in local government:

"by rights there should be at least a pay freeze, and for many parts of local government – such as middle management, which has grown 11-fold in just over a decade – there is a good case for cuts".

Exactly what is needed to recruit a much needed new cohort of child care, housing and social work professionals eh? http://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2009/10/end-national-pay-bargaining-1.html

UNISON local government national secretary Heather Wakefield's Public Finance article which provoked the Dodger's rant can be read here:
>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/10/a-touch-of-frost/