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Originally Posted by MargaretR
Does my memory serve me correctly? - in the 50s and maybe even 60s, pay rises were campaigned for in ££££ not %%%%
A percentage rise in a low wage still makes for a low wage.
Whoever started this percentage rise system has just widened the gap between the richest and the poorest
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Your quite right Margaret, I can remember when I was an happyrentice, the joiners got 2 pence an hour raise and we got a penny, much fairer, but they don't do it now because how it would look, it don't seem much when an MPs salary raises by 1.9% but if it was put in money terms it looks outragious