Do Fat Cats like water? Apparently so, if they are anything to do with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). According to Torbay Lib Dem Adrian Saunders ’senior management and board members received on average a 15 per cent increase on top of a six figure salary’, while ‘frontline staff received a shocking average pay increase of just one percent’.
This week Adrian signed a Parliamentary petition that highlighted the unequal award of pay increases for Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) staff.
The top brass pay rises comes on the back of a long-running industrial dispute within the MCA. After the mass one-day strike in 2008, unionised MCA staff have recently voted in favour of a possible future strike.
Adrian told the PRSD: “During these difficult financial times, it is unacceptable that senior staff should enrich themselves while at the same time denying their staff the same salary awards.
“Frontline MCA staff already suffer a significant pay disparity when compared to those doing comparable jobs elsewhere in the emergency services sector.
“The MCA performs offers a vital service in protecting the UK’s shoreline and those who operate around it. The Government must learn the lessons from the Royal Mail strikes and step in to settle this pay dispute fairly before the MCA’s vital service is adversely affected by industrial action.”
• Fair pay for all? Why should management get a larger slice of their already bigger cake? Comments below, please.
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