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Comments:
Food is of poor quality and does not justify the price currently charged never mind an increase.
The quality of food has massively decreased in the past 5 years with any sort of healthy option costing more and more.
An increase in line with inflation would be fairer. They have again raised food higher than the pay rise, therefore eroding any benefit.
Inflation has stagnated and UK food prices are relatively low, so why does a pay increase always trigger a rise in food and accommodation charges?
If quality increased by 1.5% there may be some justification. The CRL contract at my unit is so poor in terms of quality, I have chosen to stop using messing and self-cater.
Inflation is lower than that so why should people be ‘forced’ to pay higher than inflation charges if we don’t get commensurate pay rises.
I understand that initial costs for farmers and manufacturing has increased, which may need to increase the charges in food. This needs to be reflected in overall pay to help offset these charges. Once again, this results in less money being paid into the bank account and personnel being worse off.
This is an above inflation raise and undermines the increase of the pay.
If the government are saying inflation is almost at 0% and food prices have stabilized how can you justify a 1.5% increase?
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