Article: London's bad deal; Public-sector pay.(London's underpaid public service workers)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

The capital's public services are suffering because workers are underpaid

LONDON'S teachers are planning a one-day strike on March 14th. They maintain that their pay does not adequately compensate them for the high cost of living and working in London. Figures just published by NERA, an economics consultancy, suggest that they are right, and that their point applies to all sorts of other public-sector workers as well.

The government determines how much money to give councils partly according to the needs of the local population, and partly according to the cost of providing services. This formula takes into account the need to pay public-sector workers ...

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