1.5% pay limit is a major blow for thousands of health workers on ancillary grades people whose living standards have suffered more under the Tories than almost any other group of workers.
Whilst average real earninge rose by 22% between 1981 and 1990, the real wages of NHS ancillary staff fell by 7% over the same period.
The basic rate of pay for half the level set by the Courthreshold.
The scandal over these poverty levels of pay amongst ancillary members is indicative of the discrimination fell by a largely female workforce with a high proportion of part-time workers, black workers, and people from ethnic minorities.
One hospital domestic summed up the current mood amongst ancillary workers:
"There is no way that we can put up with our wages buying less and less cach year. ones to pay every time the government makes a mess of things? There are plenty of highly-paid managers who could pay for thie more easily than us.
• Senior NHS managers are to escape the freeze and September 1 in a deal sneaked through just ahead of the Chancellor's crackdown.
With many Chief Executives on salaries of 650,000plus, this should mean an increase of at least f40 a week.