[IER] Budget 2023: Hunt ‘rearranges the deck chairs for corporate Britain’.

[Ben Sellers]

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Budget 2023: Hunt ‘rearranges the deck chairs for corporate Britain’.


Unite have delivered their verdict on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget, accusing him of delivering a ‘budget of betrayal’ for the NHS while he rearranging the deck chairs for corporate Britain.
Unite General Secretary, Sharon Graham said:

"While Jeremy Hunt rearranges the deck chairs for corporate Britain, workers in the real economy face a crisis. This Budget does next to nothing to address the historic cost of living crisis hitting workers throughout our broken economy. Since 2010, real wages have fallen by 15% and that’s going to get worse."


More union views on the Spring Budget 


Economists’ verdict on the Spring Budget
The Chancellor's Budget fails ordinary people and ignores falling pay say leading progressive economists. Reaction from James Meadway, Grace Blakely, Prem Sikka and Geoff Tily.


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Spring Budget 2023: Equality Report Card
The Equality Trust assesses the Spring Budget: "Every missed opportunity to create a more equal society only entrenches these problems."


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Lack of action against P&O bosses is a ‘national disgrace’ – Mick Lynch
"It is a national disgrace that the government has taken no concrete action to punish this rogue company DP World." - via the Morning Star 


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Rail bosses award themselves ‘eye watering’ annual pay rises – RMT research
Report also reveals that the since the pandemic the private train operators stand to make taxpayer profits of £412 million by September this year 


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Corporate profiteering soars an astonishing 89% compared to pre-pandemic levels
New Unite report exposes the unbridled profiteering behind the cost-of-living crisis. 


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The fight for rights: why we must defend strikes, boycotts and protests
>From our right to withdraw our labour and our right to take protest action, to our right to boycott human rights abusing companies and countries — our right to push for social justice is at risk. Via War on Want 


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Hard Up? Who is to Blame? The Economic Consequences of the Anti-union Laws
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