With thoughts turning to the new year and resolutions, it's worth considering what a citizens manifesto for the May elections would look like.
One key concept that hasn't enjoyed much discussion is a Northampton Living wage. This would involve the Council committing to pay staff a living wage rather than minimum wage and also committing to only contract with companies and organisations that paid staff a living wage.
It was a key policy platform that all candidates for the London mayoral elections fought on, however in the face of austerity is it still an aspiration that is deliverable or even able to capture the imagination of the electorate. With so many going into 2011 with uncertainty about the future maybe all people want to hope for is security as opposed to hoping for something better.
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This Living Wage would certainly be easy to implement if it was made a part of the tender process for local contractors as a qualification to take on Council work
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