Prentis slams pay hypocrisy of pig trough MP's

UNISON General Secretary has slammed the hypocrisy of those MP's picking up a £ 1000 (1.5%) pay rise while imposing pay feezes on milions of public sector workers.

"It does not seem right that MPs can get a 1.5% pay increase - worth £1,000 a year on basic pay - when low-paid workers such as teaching assistants, school dinner ladies, social care workers, road sweepers will get nothing, because their pay is being frozen. They [the MPs] might also want to contemplate the speeches and seminars calling for lengthy pay restraint in the public sector and the damage they cause to morale and public confidence." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8550850.stm