The TUC say low wages are holding back economic recovery and growth in the south west.
They've found that the value of the region's overall pay packet has fallen by ten per cent since 2007.
It's partly because many companies have reduced people's working hours... and the creation of new jobs in the private sector isn't replacing the better-paid positions in the public sector which have been lost through Government cuts.
Wages are also failing to keep pace with inflation, which is reducing people's spending power further, and making it harder for businesses to thrive.
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