Nice Work If You Can Get It.

[Michael Booth 7,364]

I see that Christine Blower, the N.U.T. Leader has got another rise that takes her pay to £160,000 a year. I thought that the late Rail Union leader Bob Crow's £145,000 salary was high. Forget your political views and ask yourself, are these high salaries justified?. Nice work if you can get it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2711397/Militant-NUT-boss-paid-160-000-Increase-union-chief-led-five-national-teachers-strikes.html

[FLY2 10,109]

Pigs and trough again. Trouble is the pigs are becoming more prevalent, and the troughs a damn site bigger.

Effin' parasites.

[DJBrenton 738]

A primary school headmaster was paid £276,523 last year - £70,000 more than the head of Eton College, it emerged last night.

Mark Elms, who runs a 335-pupil inner-city primary, received £231,400 with a further £45,123 in pension contributions.

He is among around 100 head teachers taking home more than £150,000 - outstripping David Cameron's £142,500 a year.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294169/The-276-000-primary-head-Staggering-salary-revealed-days-pledge-cap-head-teachers-pay.html#ixzz393dOZEF0

[FLY2 10,109]

You are jesting...? Just for overseeing under 9's. The world has gone completely crackers.

[FLY2 10,109]

I've just got up of the floor, please tell me the decimal point is in the wrong place.

[DJBrenton 738]

Unbelievable isn't it. It actually makes Blower's salary almost seem reasonable doesn't it.

[FLY2 10,109]

No !

[DaveN 1,118]

It's not what they EARN though is it? It's what they receive!

[FLY2 10,109]

Damn right. They don't know the meaning of the word EARN.

[... 1,411]

Kicking a ball £50,000 ,teaching a few cheeky kids 150,000 a year ,ruining the country 150,000 a year.banks solicitors ,utilities write your own cheque, work in care looking after people's relatives to very high standard £6,50 ph.look after people's relatives to a very low standard, prison fees open.how come the harder you work the less youi are paid.

[FLY2 10,109]

My thoughts entirely.

[Ayupmeducks 1,730]

And what does an NCO in a battlefront earn?

I'd be up in arms if I was still paying union dues and the head of the union was earning 5 figures a year..

[tomlinson 879]

I remember when I was working we had union meetings, largely ignored by media etc, then one day the head of the union, whose name I can't recall, turned up in his suit and we gave him a good listening to. I looked out of the window and there were the T.V. cameras. 'High profile' people go in more for celeb' value than doing the job for which they're grossly overpaid

[DJBrenton 738]

And what does an NCO in a battlefront earn?

I'd be up in arms if I was still paying union dues and the head of the union was earning 5 figures a year..

A sergeant would typically earn mid £30k with an additional £50 or so a day if on operations. So a year in the sandbox away from family will earn less than £50k.The highest ranking army officer, a Brigadier, will be paid just over £100k.

[Bilbraborn 1,594]

And here's me thinking that socialism was about everyone getting the same. Maybe George Orwell was right. Everyone is equal but some are more equal than others. Personally I wouldn't want an NUT member teaching my kids.

[DJBrenton 738]

And here's me thinking that socialism was about everyone getting the same. Maybe George Orwell was right. Everyone is equal but some are more equal than others. Personally I wouldn't want an NUT member teaching my kids.

Socialism is NOT about equality of outcome, it's about equality of access to the articles of consumption. Only some versions of Communism espouse the idea of equality of outcome. Every other system accepts the unequal rewards earned by different contributions towards society. In practice, no society rewards the cleaner exactly the same as a scientist.

[barclaycon 569]

Well, there's Socialism in the 19th Century sense, and then there's 'Champagne socialism' like New Labour.

People labelling themselves as Socialists and then enriching themselves to a monumental degree.

Claiming to be philanthropists but really only interested in their own wealth.

Pigs in the trough is right.

Basfordred got it spot on.

The pigs ARE more prevalent and the troughs MUCH deeper.

[... 1,411]

Unions selling banking and insurance products to membrrs,who are they representing,I think conflict of interest,do they really think their membership is going to pay their collosall salaries.or perhaps they are,I won't.

[Bilbraborn 1,594]

I stand by what I say. I believe Socialism is about control of the people.

[Bubblewrap 3,815]

No mention of BANKERS who are paid telephone number salaries + a bonus even if the bank(which the tax payer bailed out) makes a loss

[... 1,411]

# 20 ,yep and nearly bankrupt the world,should have been shot

[Bubblewrap 3,815]

Castration(without pain relief) with a blunt rusty razor blade would be more apt.

And in public too.

[mudgie49 401]

There seem to be no limits to what corporate CEO's,or people in high office will pay themselves.

If their pay was related to their production,they would be skint.The income of these parasites is out of control.

The money comes from the investors or the tax payers.

No one has learned anything over the last eight years,and so it goes on.

[Bilbraborn 1,594]

Wait until the bubble bursts. I mean really bursts. I expect bankers and the like to overpay themselves. I don't like it but I expect it. But how can these union leaders and champagne socialists accept that kind of money and then claim to be one of us.

[mudgie49 401]

They are not 'one of us'and they only seem to represent themselves.

The real'working class union rep',disappeared in the early 60's.

I never understood the middle and upper class socialists.The ones I met in the 60's soon moved back into their own circles after the novelty wore off.

As a kid I was told to be proud of being 'working class'and to help those who struggle to help themselves.That was my mothers interpretation of 'Socialism'.

Today I still practice what I was taught 55 years ago.