Responding to the latest inflation figures, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: 
 
"Workers won’t feel better off today. Prices are up 40 per cent over the last five years. Energy bills will be pushing £2,000 by the end of the year and food prices will be up 50 per cent compared to 2021. While energy profiteers and supermarkets rake in billions.” 
 
“Instead of demanding price caps to protect workers, the Government has hit their take home pay with stealth taxes.
 
“Labour needs to remember whose side it is meant to be on. Drop the stealth taxes, tackle the profiteers and convince workers it has a way out of crisis.”

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Unite is the UK and Ireland’s leading union fighting to protect and advance jobs, pay and conditions for members working across all sectors of the economy. The general secretary is Sharon Graham