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A Real Pay Rise

By: Eddie Dempsey

The RMT’s Eddie Dempsey on why the cost-of-living crisis must be tackled through the paypacket.

Illustration by Pavel Popov.

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Since the beginning of this crisis, we’ve been clear: the cost of living has to be tackled through the pay packet. You can’t deal with the root cause through taxes or even by focusing on prices. There haven’t been proper wage rises in Britain for decades, a result of deliberate policies pursued by successive governments […]

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Since the beginning of this crisis, we’ve been clear: the cost of living has to be tackled through the pay packet. You can’t deal with the root cause through taxes or even by focusing on prices. There haven’t been proper wage rises in Britain for decades, a result of deliberate policies pursued by successive governments […]

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Since the beginning of this crisis, we’ve been clear: the cost of living has to be tackled through the pay packet. You can’t deal with the root cause through taxes or even by focusing on prices. There haven’t been proper wage rises in Britain for decades, a result of deliberate policies pursued by successive governments […]

Since the beginning of this crisis, we’ve been clear: the cost of living has to be tackled through the pay packet. You can’t deal with the root cause through taxes or even by focusing on prices. There haven’t been proper wage rises in Britain for decades, a result of deliberate policies pursued by successive governments […]

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