Incoming general secretary, Paul Nowak, says PM has overestimated public support for confronting unions
Rishi Sunak needs an “exit strategy” from ongoing industrial disputes to avoid them escalating in the months ahead after overestimating public support for his “1980s playbook” approach to widespread strikes, the incoming TUC general secretary has said.
“Maybe they’ll try and brazen it out until the spring and to the budget but I just don’t think our members are going to sit quietly waiting for that to come. I don’t think promises of jam tomorrow will cut it with people.” “If you’re in the public services feeling hard-pressed it feels like the only solution being put forward by government is that you’re expected to show a little bit of pay restraint. You’re the one supposed to suffer. It doesn’t feel like this is a burden fairly shared across the country,” he added.
“It is potentially for us a claim to the ECHR. We won’t leave any legal stone unturned. We’ll have to see what the actual proposals are but I think there would be a real appetite among our unions to take on the government in the courtrooms.”
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