Ealing: Teachers & health workers protest at pay offer

Public sector workers staged a protest on the steps of Ealing Town Hall on Tuesday to show opposition to the government's 2% pay rise offer - reports the Ealing Gazette.

Organised by public sector union Unison and supported by Ealing teachers and health workers, the protest argued that with inflation running at 4.8% the government deal is effectively a pay cut.

Adam Smith, an officer for the Ealing branch of Unison, warned that the protest was a "first step" and could lead to widespread strike action and disruption of services.

Are Ealing's MPs going to tolerate such a situation - do they agree health and education workers should get a pay cut? Are they going to vote billions of pounds extra away to the audit-failing EU that could actually be used to pay teachers and others in line with inflation?