Our latest New Statesman article on cuts – this one is on the escalating war against low pay:
“Salaries across the country are not only being cut – they’re being trashed, as the people we talked to for this article know all too well. They, like people all over the country, are locked in vicious disputes with their employers about proposals for wage cuts. Staff at One Housing Group, which is featured in this story, are striking today. They know that they’re being forced into a race to the bottom, but refuse to join it – or buy the line that employers can only compete if wages plunge…
While the wages of One Housing Group workers were being slashed, Mick Sweeney, the group’s CEO, accepted a pay increase of just over £30,000, taking his salary to £176,000. OHG refuses to explain to us why it quoted a lower figure of £150,075 in Inside Housing’s 2012 salary survey.
Disgraceful up and down the country employers are at all time low bosses getting a pay rise in fact my local newspaper reported sometime ago chief exec at my local authority had excepted £5000 pound pay rise dispite the workers not getting a pay rise for some 3 years is it any wonder people are unhappy staff report they never even see him in fact given me and what I have endured I’m appalled that these people already except huge salarys I don’t have any problem with this providing jobs are done properly it appears in this case it isn’t in fact an employer sometime ago after serving over 30 years on the day of retirement was suspended dispite councillors asking questions about this it was hushed up rumour and an email to her work colleagues stated it was very much the talented employers who she had worked with were being crushed she stated it as caterpillar butterfly she laid blame on senior management nobody can seem to get to the bottom of it clearly something wrong a whole town in my area is saying for a second time vote of no confidence in the authority my understanding is with all places it starts at the top good management and if not they shouldn’t have huge pay rises