The leader of the UK’s biggest private sector union has warned of a “summer of discontent” as pay disputes are expected to increase amidst soaring inflation.
Sharon Graham, general secretary of the Unite union, told the BBC that there could be hundreds of disputes involving tens of thousands of people if workers are made to “pay the price for inflation.”
She said ordinary workers have already “had a spring, summer, autumn, and winter of discontent for years,” and “any employer who can pay, who has made profit out of workers, has to pay a proper fair wage to those workers.”…