Public service workers across the UK are walking out on a one day strike today, in protest at continuing pay freezes and caps that have meant the average public sector worker is now £2,245 worse off in real terms since this government took office. In local government, where almost two thirds of the workforce are paid below £21k a year and around half a million workers are paid less than the Living Wage, workers will have experienced a real terms pay cut of 18% by the end of 2014.