Will pay catch up with prices in 2011?

"You go to the shops and a loaf of bread is £1.25 then the next week it is £1.35 - everybody's just had enough."

From early this morning, some of the shop-floor staff at the huge Perkins engine factory in Stafford will stage their fifth one-day strike, in an attempt to break the second year of a pay freeze.

Their factory stayed very profitable through the recession and, as some of them told me as they started an early morning shift, they are fed up with prices rising as their pay stays the same.