A TUC study released that thousands of people working on X-mas Day will be paid less for their shifts than a decade ago.
The Tories’ presence to key workers means nurses’ real wages are down more than £2,700 per year. The local government care workers are down more than £1,600 a year and chefs are down more than £1,050 per year.
According to the research, police officers have seen a 12 percent drop, while waiting for staff, doctors and medical practitioners, cleaners and caterers have all taken a hit during a decade of Tory rule.
The TUC said that many working on December 25 were already on low pay. It is especially in sectors like social care. Regarding this TUC general secretary, Frances O’Grady said,
“Many of the key workers who are bracing themselves for another surge of Covid cases are earning less in real terms than they were a decade ago. That is not right. While many of us are tucking into the turkey, thousands of key workers will be hard at work on the front line, many of them dealing with staff shortages as a result of the omicron variant. But their pay awards are falling way short of what they should be, especially in a cost-of-living crisis.”
O’Grady urged that the pandemic “must be a turning point,” adding: “2022 should be the year that the government finally gets wages rising across the UK.
