Today in England and Wales, tens of thousands of public sector workers, many of them teachers, are expected to strike. Currently public sector workers largely enjoy more generous pensions than their equivalents in the private sector and the Coalition Government has acknowledged the growing difference in approach between the private and public sectors. The private

UNISON is a public service trade union but we have thousands of private sector members and thousands more work in the private sector delivering public services outside the trade union movement. When those workers do come the way of the Union it is often as isolated individuals needing servicing and...

The private sector is not ready to employ the hundreds of thousands of public sector workers likely to be laid off in the next few years as a result of Budget cuts, some of the UK's top employers have warned

An interesting feature of this morning's Times Populus poll is the split between public sector and private sector workers. The Conservatives do better among private sector workers. No surpirse. But Labour now also do better among private sector workers than...

Public sector workers enjoy better pay, better pensions, shorter hours and more sick leave than their private sector counterparts, a detailed report has found.

There are two fundamental problems with the analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies of the current negotiations on public sector pensions. Firstly, the IFS compares public sector pension provision with that of the private sector and implies that the inevitable disparity has to be rebalanced by cutting the public sector rather than improving private sector provision.

Economists predict pay of public sector workers will continue to outstrip that of private sector staff for at least another three years.

Several papers and comentators have noticed the very different path of public sector and private sector wages. Public sector pay is rising three times as quickly as private sector pay. In the private sector many companies are cutting earnings, and in some cases

David Miliband, House of Commons, debate on PFI in the education sector, 2004: The public-private partnerships enable the public sector to use private sector resources to deliver elements of services that the latter, through its skills and expertise, is best placed to provide through a structure in which the private sector puts its capital at risk

Data issued yesterday by the Incomes Data Services indicated that average pay settlements over the first quarter of 2011 in the public sector were close to 0 per cent. However, pay settlements in the private sector were closer to 3 per cent. Does this mean that Policy Exchange were wrong in a recent report to conclude that public sector workers are overpaid compared to their private sector counter...