People Before Profit Cllr Shaun Harkin said,
"The trade union movement is absolutely right to put it up to the Stormont political establishment on behalf of working-class communities.
Working-class households are struggling with low pay, rising energy bills, school uniform costs, rent and more.
Sinn Féin, DUP, Alliance, UUP and SDLP MLAs all demonstrated how out of touch they are with frustrated working-class households when they supported a 27% pay hike for themselves.
The Stormont Executive has refused to award Health and Social Care workers a pay increase and reneged on Real Living Wage commitments for independent care workers.
Instead of investing in housing and public services, cuts to the health service and public transport are threatened.
School uniform legislation has done very little to reduce the cost of the school day for working-class families.
SEN students, classroom assistants and teachers have been let down by an Education Minister more interested in stirring-up division and distrust.
Stormont has been incapable of protecting Ulster University workers and giving certainty to Magee expansion.
Demands from Social Work students for financial support have been ignored for decades.
Stormont's response to the corporate poisoning of Lough Neagh and the toxic Mobuoy superdump has been completely inadequate.
A Stormont budget should prioritise workers pay, public services and cost of living support.
People power action has always been the key means by which the working-class has made its demands felt.
People power action can sideline those in government and outside it who want to incite division, scapegoat migrants and the vulnerable for their own failures and Stormont's failures.
People Before Profit stand with the trade union movement and encourage all-out action demanding a complete change of course and priorities from the Stormont and Westminster political establishment."