Ambulance strike

[Steve Bullman]

2 hours ago, Kimosabi said:

Just out of curiosity, is a knobhead the same as a dickhead or is one worse than the other 

its become almost something of a tradition to ban someone on christmas day....joyful times seem to bring out the worst in some people. Please keep this up for another 2 days.

[Kimosabi]

1 minute ago, Steve Bullman said:

its become almost something of a tradition to ban someone on christmas day....joyful times seem to bring out the worst in some people. Please keep this up for another 2 days.

 

[Kimosabi]

Just now, Kimosabi said:

 

I think he insulted to start with 

[Jamie Jones]

Yes they should be allowed to strike.

it is a basic human right to be able to withdraw your Labour or work to rule. We have the most restrictive union rule in Europe and that was before we left the EU. The new laws they are threatening to bring is is akin to somewhere like China.

 

The reason the country is in such a mess is because we have been failed by successive governments for over 40x years and that is for both Tory and Labour.

 

Wages have decreased massively in real terms over decades. An example of this is in 1988 I was working as a Photograher on a local paper for £ 16,000 and a car (before company car taxes) and I purchased a property that was a 2x bed terrace house and garage for £ 52,000.

Step forward to 2022 and you most likely would not have a staff job and the money would be shockingly bad as a freelance. But for where they do have a staff job a senior Photographer on a paper like that would be on £ 22,000 and the same property is now £ 260,000 and you would not get a mortgage for it on that wage. for the £6k extra money you would be pay a whole host of extra new taxes and company car tax. Council tax would have quadrupled as well, not to mention the horrific rise in the cost of living.

out of that £6 lift in wages I would say the you would lose about £3-4 in income tax, NI and higher taxes, plus new taxes.

So in real terms in over 35 years you are worse off.

my partner works

in the NHS and is at the top of her band, and any wage rise she get is in real terms wage deflation.

The mileage rate for doing home calls to treat people in the community is is the same as it was 12x years ago. In that time the cost to replace her Mazda 2 has doubled along with running costs and fuel. So in effect losing money.

 

[carlos]

18 hours ago, Jamie Jones said:

Yes they should be allowed to strike.

it is a basic human right to be able to withdraw your Labour or work to rule. We have the most restrictive union rule in Europe and that was before we left the EU. The new laws they are threatening to bring is is akin to somewhere like China.

 

The reason the country is in such a mess is because we have been failed by successive governments for over 40x years and that is for both Tory and Labour.

 

Wages have decreased massively in real terms over decades. An example of this is in 1988 I was working as a Photograher on a local paper for £ 16,000 and a car (before company car taxes) and I purchased a property that was a 2x bed terrace house and garage for £ 52,000.

Step forward to 2022 and you most likely would not have a staff job and the money would be shockingly bad as a freelance. But for where they do have a staff job a senior Photographer on a paper like that would be on £ 22,000 and the same property is now £ 260,000 and you would not get a mortgage for it on that wage. for the £6k extra money you would be pay a whole host of extra new taxes and company car tax. Council tax would have quadrupled as well, not to mention the horrific rise in the cost of living.

out of that £6 lift in wages I would say the you would lose about £3-4 in income tax, NI and higher taxes, plus new taxes.

So in real terms in over 35 years you are worse off.

my partner works

in the NHS and is at the top of her band, and any wage rise she get is in real terms wage deflation.

The mileage rate for doing home calls to treat people in the community is is the same as it was 12x years ago. In that time the cost to replace her Mazda 2 has doubled along with running costs and fuel. So in effect losing money.

 

a quick google says there were 9 billionaires in the uk in 1989 and there are now 177!!!

and yet society's key  workers are still not being paid enough

[billy_wizz]

3 hours ago, carlos said:

a quick google says there were 9 billionaires in the uk in 1989 and there are now 177!!!

and yet society's key  workers are still not being paid enough

But how many of them made there money in the UK?