Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:51 pm on 15 November 2022.
Well, Llywydd, I recognise the anger and the disappointment that many public service workers experience at the moment. When your wages have been held down through a decade of austerity, and you're now faced with wage rises below the level of inflation, then it is absolutely understandable why workers in those circumstances feel in the way that they do and why they vote to take action in the way that they have. And this Labour Government has no ambiguity at all in putting on the record our understanding of the way in which public sector workers have been driven to take the action that they do. I'm very happy to repeat that and put it on the record again this afternoon.