We are calling on local councils to help reduce the pay gap.
Please email your local councillors using the form on our website.
Free campaign resources
To order a printed copy of our campaigners' pack and / or some campaign postcards please email bill.kerry@equalitytrust.org.uk
Alternatively, download the campaign materials here:
- cover page
- campaign briefing
- template press release
- UK and regional attitudes to pay ratios
- executive summary from 'A Third of a Percent' report by One Society
- campaign postcards
To email your councillors now, complete this form on our website.
If you are a councillor
Please read our briefing for local councillors.
Watch Bill Kerry talking about pay ratios
Question - What one change would have the biggest positive impact on Society?
About the campaign
Evidence presented by The Equality Trust shows that there are different ways to reduce income inequality. Societies can either redistribute income (as they tend to do in Scandinavia) or narrow pay gaps in the workplace (as they tend to do in Japan and certain US states such as New Hampshire).
The British Social Attitudes Survey in December 2010 showed that a majority of people think the Chief Executive of a large company should be paid no more than six times the pay of a typical factory worker.
Evidence collated by One Society indicates that pay gaps are, on average, 15 to 1 in local authorities, 10 to 1 in large charities and a huge 262 to 1 in FTSE 100 companies. Inequality is built into the very foundations of our economy.
But we can change this. Councils can be a great force for reducing the pay gap. They can tackle inequality through their own pay policies and also, crucially, through their influence on private-sector contractors.
To email your councillors now, complete this form on our website.
