[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:work\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2011\u002Funited-kingdom-growing-gap-between-rich-and-poor-november-23-2011":3},{"id":4,"slug":5,"title":6,"short_title":7,"intro_text":7,"meta_description":8,"seo_title":8,"path":9,"content_type":10,"locale":11,"go_live_at":7,"first_published_at":12,"page_created_at":13,"published_at":12,"edit_url":14,"breadcrumbs":15,"seo":28,"body_blocks":36,"call_to_action":42,"categories":49,"labels":50,"owner":7,"authors":51,"related_pages":52,"related_sites":53,"in_subsite":54,"contact_page_url":55,"banner_message":56},18733,"united-kingdom-growing-gap-between-rich-and-poor-november-23-2011","United Kingdom -Growing gap between rich and poor -November 23, 2011",null,"","\u002Fwork\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2011\u002Funited-kingdom-growing-gap-between-rich-and-poor-november-23-2011","pages.newspage","en","1969-12-30T23:00:00+00:00","2025-12-15T15:47:19.141975+00:00","\u002Fcms\u002Fpages\u002F18733\u002Fedit\u002F",[16,19,22,25,27],{"title":17,"slug":18},"World of Work","work",{"title":20,"slug":21},"Collective Bargaining Agreement","collective-bargaining-agreement",{"title":23,"slug":24},"Collective Bargaining Updates","updates",{"title":26,"slug":26},"2011",{"title":6,"slug":5},{"title":6,"description":8,"image":29,"canonical":30,"robots":31,"og_type":32,"twitter_card":33,"locale":11,"created_at":34,"last_modified_at":35},"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fimages\u002FSocial_media_preview_image_-_2025.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x630.png","https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fwork\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2011\u002Funited-kingdom-growing-gap-between-rich-and-poor-november-23-2011\u002F","index, follow","website","summary_large_image","1969-12-31T00:00:00+01:00","2025-12-26T20:58:26.194499+01:00",[37],{"type":38,"data":39},"raw_html_block",{"content":40,"variant":41},"\n\u003Cp class=\"CM4\">Growing\r\ndiscontent about the gulf between rich and poor was underlined on Wednesday 23\r\nNovember by official figures showing the gap between Britain's highest and\r\nlowest paid workers has widened dramatically over 2011. The Office for National\r\nStatistics (ONS) revealed that workers in the worst paid jobs – such as dinner\r\nladies, hairdressers and waiters – have seen their \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.guardian.co.uk\u002Fmoney\u002Fpay\" title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Pay\">pay\u003C\u002Fa>\r\nfall sharply in real terms, fanning fears about families' ability to cope with\r\nsoaring food and \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.guardian.co.uk\u002Fmoney\u002Fenergy\" title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Energy bills\">energy\r\nbills\u003C\u002Fa>. The bottom tenth of earners saw their pay creep up just 0.1%\r\nbetween 2010 and 2011 while the top tenth saw their pay grow 18 times faster.\r\nThe number of people being paid less than the national minimum wage of UKP 6.08\r\nrose in 2010 and there was a big divergence in earnings between London and the\r\nrest of the country, according to the ONS annual survey of earnings. However,\r\nthere was a slight narrowing in the gender pay gap. Overall pay growth for UK\r\nworkers hit a record low. Pay was up just 0.4% on a year ago in terms of gross\r\nweekly earnings, meaning that incomes are tumbling in real terms given that\r\ninflation stands at 5%.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"CM5\">English: \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.guardian.co.uk\u002Fsociety\u002F2011\u002Fnov\u002F23\u002Fpay-gap-rich-poor-widens\">http:\u002F\u002Fwww.guardian.co.uk\u002Fsociety\u002F2011\u002Fnov\u002F23\u002Fpay-gap-rich-poor-widens\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"CM5\"> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp class=\"discreet\">\u003Cem>This\r\narticle was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims\r\nto facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support\r\nthe work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more \r\ninformation, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam \r\nInstitute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) \u003Ca href=\"mailto:M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl\">M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl\u003C\u002Fa>. or the communications officer of the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova \u003Ca href=\"mailto:mnikolova@etui.org\">mnikolova@etui.org\u003C\u002Fa>. You may \r\nfind further information on the ETUI at \u003Ca class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002F\" target=\"_blank\">www.etui.org\u003C\u002Fa>,\r\n and on the AIAS at \u003Ca class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.uva-aias.net\u002F39\" target=\"_blank\">www.uva-aias.net\u003C\u002Fa>.\r\n © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2011.\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\n","light",{"text":43,"link":44},"Contact us",{"title":43,"url":45,"description":43,"rel":46,"type":47,"id":48},"\u002Fabout\u002Fcontact","follow","internal",24590,[],[],[],[],[],false,"\u002Fwork\u002Fliving-wages\u002Fcontact-us","\u003Cp>Welcome to WageIndicator. Same organisation, same information, new look!\u003C\u002Fp>"]