The record strike action comes amid an ongoing political crisis in Stormont.
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Recent price rises are not due to higher wages but supply-side issues including the war in Ukraine, the COVID pandemic and Brexit.
Existing gender and ethnic pay gaps in the public service complicate using wage restraint to improve the lot of the lowest paid.
If the proposed public sector wage freeze is aimed at improving the lot of lower paid workers, there are better alternatives the government should consider.
The South African government is hamstrung by the country’s fiscal and economic situation. And short of ideas about how to get out of it.
