Government must change course or face strikes, unions say at London’s biggest march in yearsThe government faced calls for a major change of direction on public services, pay and jobs on Saturday as tens of thousands of people marched through central London to demand a “new deal”. The general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, Mark Serwotka, warned of a strike ballot among civil servants in support of demands for a 5% pay rise. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/Rex/ShutterstockFrontline workers including nurses, ambulance crews, postal workers, teachers, civil servants and cleaners marched to call for a higher minimum wage, a ban on zero-hours contracts and more funding for the NHS and other public services. People have been very patient but they are now demanding a new deal for decent jobs, fair wages, to fund public services and for strong trade unions. A million more UK children in poverty than in 2010 – study Read more“You can’t hand out bumper dividends to shareholders and cut workers’ wages.

Source: The Guardian May 12, 2018 11:14 UTC