Organised by The Trades Union Congress (TUC) marches took place in the capital, Glasgow and Belfast, under the banner ‘Britain Needs a Pay Rise’ in the week after NHS workers made their biggest strike in 30 years.
Tens of thousands of people including PCS members from across the union and the Defence Sector group took to the streets to protest against low pay amid the “biggest squeeze on incomes since Victorian times”.
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175 Top directors earn 175 times more than the average worker.
£50 Average wages have fallen by £50 a week in real terms since 2008.
Poverty line For the first time more people in work are below the poverty line than those out of work.
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