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BOSSES at a Staffordshire housing association are planning to sack more than 60 staff while giving the group’s chief executive a pay increase.
Construction union Ucatt said that Aspire Housing in Newcastle-under-Lyme would make 60-70 staff redundant.
Aspire said that cuts were necessary because the government had imposed rent reductions in advance of its plans to enforce the right to buy in the social housing sector.
But Ucatt claimed that Aspire boss Sinead Butters had been awarded a 4.9 per cent pay rise despite already being paid £137,000.
“While (we have) sympathies with providers of social housing in the face of swingeing Tory cuts to revenue, the hypocrisy of Aspire management is breathtaking,” said Ucatt.
