Small annual wage rises fail to keep pace with ballooning bills In some ways, Mal Curry is one of the lucky ones in these straitened times. A 50-year-old "lifer" working at a Royal Mail sorting office in Manchester for 31 years, he has been granted pay rises through most of the recession and now earns around £9 an hour. But the small annual increases have failed to keep up with galloping …
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