U.S. Protests U.N. Salary Increases, Citing Global Austerity Measures


By George Russell

Published September 01, 2011

| FoxNews.com

The United States has issued a strong protest to the United Nations about a cost of living increase for U.N. employees in New York City, and demanded that the U.N. roll back the pay hike.

The protest came just a few days after Fox News revealed the hike in U.N. paychecks, just five months after Secretary General Ban Ki-moon ordered his top officials to cut their budgets by 3 percent in the face of a financial “emergency situationâ€