TUC chief Frances O’Grady has given herself pay rises of £18,000 despite raging against sky-high salaries
Since fuming at FTSE 100 bosses for their 'telephone number'-like-salaries, Frances O'Grady has been slammed for her double standards after giving herself a bumper pay deal
TUC union chief Frances O’Grady has given herself pay rises of £18,000 since she got the job.
Her wage and benefits package now totals £175,000, despite raging against sky-high pay for bosses.
Ms O’Grady, who became TUC general secretary in 2013, was handed a £5,000 rise this year — equivalent to three per cent.
That comes despite her tirade against FTSE 100 bosses paying themselves “salaries that look like telephone numbers” while workers were “suffering the longest pay squeeze since Napoleonic times”.
Ms O’Grady’s basic salary is £111,982, but luxury corporate and benefits packages takes her total remuneration to £175,000.
Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith slammed her “double standards”.
He told The Sun: “If she lectures bosses not to take large pay rises then union bosses shouldn’t as well.
“Union members will surely see that there is more than a whiff of hypocrisy here.”
Tory MP Nigel Evans said: “She lectures others but has her snout firmly in the trough.”
A TUC spokesman said last night: “While pay has risen for TUC staff at around the rate of inflation, Frances O’Grady has opted not to have a pay rise for the past three years.
“Our top-to bottom ratio is five-to-one. By contrast, the average FTSE 100 boss earns £4million a year — more than 140 times the average worker.”
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