国际英语资讯:Workers in Britain suffer longest decline in pay since days of Charles Dickens: trade union_时事

国际英语资讯:Workers in Britain suffer longest decline in pay since days of Charles Dickens: trade union

LONDON, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- British workers have experienced the longest decline in real wages since the era of social writer Charles Dickens more than 150 years ago, the umbrella organisation for trade unions, the TUC, said Thursday.

In a new report, the TUC said workers in Britain had also seen the largest decline in pay of any developed economy except Greece.

国际英语资讯:Workers in Britain suffer longest decline in pay since days of Charles Dickens: trade union1

Highlighting what it described as the rise of job insecurity in modern Britain, the TUC said 10 years ago it established a Commission on Vulnerable Employment (CoVE). The aim was to examine the increase in the proportion of workers at risk of poverty and injustice due to an imbalance of power in the employer-worker relationship.

A decade later, there has been a significant increase in the number of people in work, with 2.6 million more people now in the labor market in Britain.

The TUC said: "While this increase in employment is welcome, it has been accompanied by two major changes in the experience of work."

"Working people have experienced a significant downgrade in their pay. Pay is still around 20 pounds (25 U.S.dollars) a week below its pre-crisis levels, and not set to return to those levels until 2021."

"British workers have experienced the longest decline in real wages since 1864, and have seen the largest decline of any developed economy except Greece and a growing number of people face insecurity at work."