Experts predict gas and electricity costs could exceed £5,000 in 2023, so workers will soon be spending more than two months of their annual salary in utility bills, the TUC warns.
His average monthly take-home pay next year will be £2,054, according to the Bank of England. This is less than half of the union's estimated total annual energy costs.
The TUC denounced energy bosses for profiteering, and called on under-pressure Tory ministers to meet with trade unions and business leaders to address the "urgent crisis." I urged them to be able to come up with a response together.
The same approach in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic led to a "very successful furlough scheme that protected jobs, families and businesses," the TUC said.
This union call follows a decade of stagnant wages and soaring energy costs this year, exacerbated by Russia's attack on Ukraine, said consumer expert Martin Lewis. It came after warning of a "national crisis on the same scale as seen during the pandemic."
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The total value determined by regulator Ofgem is more than £200 higher than the grim forecast earlier this week and nearly four times the average price before his April price hike this year.
The TUC condemned the "political choices made by 12 years of Conservative government" and said the crisis was hitting the family, saying that "the family has already been on the brink of war for over a decade. It was under the longest and most severe wage pressure." 200 years.
The next price cap hike, scheduled for October, must be scrapped and its cost must be funded by the government through an extended windfall tax on UK profits of energy giants. it demanded.
Reform of the energy system is needed, unions say , privatizing energy retailers and introducing new pricing structures to "make basic energy needs affordable". adopted.
Former Labor Prime Minister Gordon Brown today partly endorsed the idea, telling The Guardian that energy companies that fail to offer low rates will be temporarily privatized until conditions improve. said it should.
The TUC also called for significant increases in the minimum wage, universal credits and public pensions this October, and an increase in public sector salaries to match inflation.
General Secretary Francis O'Grady said:
``But millions of families across the country are being pushed to the brink by staggering utility bills.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Tory leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak said, September 5
Urged Tories to "get a grip on it," Shadow Prime Minister Rachel Reeves said: Stated. Building the stronger, safer economy that Britain deserves.
She said that people with prepayment meters would pay more for energy than those with direct debit arrangements, "which would eventually end the fraud." I promised to do it.
The meter should be scrapped entirely, said campaigners for Power to the People.
The initiative, backed by politicians, academics and environmental activists, will hold protests outside its Glasgow headquarters tomorrow, calling for an "astronomical rise in bills" against Scottish Power. I will ask you to work on it.
Meanwhile, over 100,000 people signed up for the "Don't Pay" campaign and bulk canceled direct debits to 100 If 10,000 people participate, October 1st, the aim is to hurt the pockets of companies if they fail to reduce.
