工会Unite批评政府放弃生活工资承诺 预算次日劳资分歧浮现
2026年10月7日，在2027年度预算公布的次日，代表公共部门等行业劳动者的工会Unite公开批评政府放弃了引入生活工资的承诺，称这是对最低收入者的背离。这一表态使预算的分配效应成为次日舆论的焦点。
预算把全国最低工资自2027年1月起上调至每小时14.94欧元。工会方面的批评在于，法定最低工资的例行上调不等于兑现生活工资承诺，两者在计算方式与目标水平上并不相同。Unite前一天对预算的总体评价是，劳动者在原地踏步，而最富有者成为赢家。
预算中的其他数字也摆在桌面上：公共支出总额升至1256亿欧元，福利与养老金每周增加10欧元，所得税起征点上调。但工会认为，在生活成本压力之下，这些措施不足以改变公共部门薪酬谈判的僵局。
公共部门上一份薪酬协议已于今年6月底到期，继任协议的谈判迟迟没有实质进展。工会要求先谈定薪酬条件再谈其他议题，政府则拒绝这一前提。10月14日的一场全国性公共部门罢工已经在筹备之中，预算次日的口水战是这场对峙的前奏。
Unite Accuses Government of Scrapping 'Living Wage' Pledge After Budget
On 7 October 2026, the day after Budget 2027 was delivered, the union Unite, which represents workers across the public sector and other industries, publicly accused the government of betraying the lowest paid by scrapping its 'living wage' pledge. The intervention made the budget's distributional effects the focus of the next day's debate.
The budget raised the national minimum wage to 14.94 euros per hour from January 2027. The union's criticism is that a routine rise in the statutory minimum wage is not the same as delivering a living wage commitment, which differs in how it is calculated and in the level it targets. Unite's overall verdict on the budget, delivered the previous day, was that workers were running to stand still while the wealthiest won.
Other figures in the budget are on the record: total public spending rising to 125.6 billion euros, welfare and pensions up 10 euros a week, and wider income tax bands. Unions argue that, under cost-of-living pressure, these measures are not enough to change the stalemate over public sector pay talks.
The last public sector pay deal expired at the end of June, and talks on a successor have made no substantive progress. Unions insist pay terms must be agreed before other issues are discussed; ministers reject that condition. A nationwide public sector strike on 14 October is already being prepared, and the war of words the day after the budget is a prelude to that confrontation.
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