Pay freeze will continue “in all but name” unless government departments get extra money

Commenting on the announcement that the government is to end the public sector pay freeze UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
“There’s never a good time to freeze public sector pay. Doing so at the peak of a pandemic was the height of folly.
“Staff were doing their all to keep under-pressure services running, and ministers looked like they didn’t care.
“There can be no decent public services without the people to run them. Pay freezes don&