Union officers' salaries topped £900k a year in Sussex (From The Argus)

Ah, trade union fat cats lol

Wow, you'd think it was the unions bleeding the country dry if you got pent up about this article.

Could somebody let me the know the top 10 earners (and their salaries) at Brighton and Hove City Council and Sussex Police? I bet their packages have risen far above inflation. Surely they would be a better and more prudent target for any investigation?

Fercri Sakes wrote:
Wow, you'd think it was the unions bleeding the country dry if you got pent up about this article.

Could somebody let me the know the top 10 earners (and their salaries) at Brighton and Hove City Council and Sussex Police? I bet their packages have risen far above inflation. Surely they would be a better and more prudent target for any investigation?

The wages of top earners has nothing to do with the rights and wrongs of the wages of union reps being paid by tax payers.

I do not care whether it costs £20 or £200,000, union members should pay for their representation themselves.

fredaj wrote:

Fercri Sakes wrote: Wow, you'd think it was the unions bleeding the country dry if you got pent up about this article. Could somebody let me the know the top 10 earners (and their salaries) at Brighton and Hove City Council and Sussex Police? I bet their packages have risen far above inflation. Surely they would be a better and more prudent target for any investigation?

The wages of top earners has nothing to do with the rights and wrongs of the wages of union reps being paid by tax payers. I do not care whether it costs £20 or £200,000, union members should pay for their representation themselves.

Don't be so ridiculous.
The best union reps I've seen often use their skills to improve relations between staff and bosses, they're invaluable at providing advice and keeping the company employees updated.
The worst companies I've worked in usually don't have formal union reps and often suffer from poor internal comms and liaison.
They can often be the balance and checks on poor performing bosses.

Your views are outdated.

I wish they would get rid of union reps so I could get rid of all British workers and employ foreign workers without any sick, holiday, maternity pay.
Oh, isn't this what the Govt is trying to do.

I would be more supportive of the unions if they did not draw a wage whilst the members were out on the strike they called.
Arthur Scargill is a prime example of all that was and still is bad about union reps who don't actually work

Hove Actually wrote:
I would be more supportive of the unions if they did not draw a wage whilst the members were out on the strike they called. Arthur Scargill is a prime example of all that was and still is bad about union reps who don't actually work

What? You're so out of date it's unreal!

No one wants to strike, with the obvious exception of the underground drivers no one else has the clout to stick out a strike and win their point, it's all weighted to employers and even moreso with the latest ideological rants from the Tories.
Team GB employers have sent offshore hundreds of thousands of jobs for the get results instantly, and now we need them bk for true investment.

graham_Seagull wrote:

fredaj wrote:

Fercri Sakes wrote: Wow, you'd think it was the unions bleeding the country dry if you got pent up about this article. Could somebody let me the know the top 10 earners (and their salaries) at Brighton and Hove City Council and Sussex Police? I bet their packages have risen far above inflation. Surely they would be a better and more prudent target for any investigation?

The wages of top earners has nothing to do with the rights and wrongs of the wages of union reps being paid by tax payers. I do not care whether it costs £20 or £200,000, union members should pay for their representation themselves.

Don't be so ridiculous.
The best union reps I've seen often use their skills to improve relations between staff and bosses, they're invaluable at providing advice and keeping the company employees updated.
The worst companies I've worked in usually don't have formal union reps and often suffer from poor internal comms and liaison.
They can often be the balance and checks on poor performing bosses.

Your views are outdated.

Union reps should be paid for by union members.

Ah right.... Argus joining in with the worker bashing now eh? What a **** rag this is becoming.... Mouthpiece for the Tories and their paymasters in the City. Where's the connection then Argus... What little crumbs are your parent company and their shareholders getting for printing this rubbish story? At a time when the country has been stuffed by the fat cats, you try and pin it on the unions. What a disgusting bunch weasels you lot are. Why don't you try supporting the ordinary working people of this country, instead of the corrupt scum who are really responsible for the mess we are in. Oh, but that requires a bit more thought, research and intelligence than I suspect exists on your news desk.
What about coming on here and debating it eh?

Interesting timing...the Argus has had this information for months. If it was such a matter of public interest why are they only releasing it now?

Oh..hang on......

fredaj wrote:

graham_Seagull wrote:

fredaj wrote:

Fercri Sakes wrote: Wow, you'd think it was the unions bleeding the country dry if you got pent up about this article. Could somebody let me the know the top 10 earners (and their salaries) at Brighton and Hove City Council and Sussex Police? I bet their packages have risen far above inflation. Surely they would be a better and more prudent target for any investigation?

The wages of top earners has nothing to do with the rights and wrongs of the wages of union reps being paid by tax payers. I do not care whether it costs £20 or £200,000, union members should pay for their representation themselves.

Don't be so ridiculous. The best union reps I've seen often use their skills to improve relations between staff and bosses, they're invaluable at providing advice and keeping the company employees updated. The worst companies I've worked in usually don't have formal union reps and often suffer from poor internal comms and liaison. They can often be the balance and checks on poor performing bosses. Your views are outdated.

Union reps should be paid for by union members.

....and your evidence is...oh no, you don't have any.

Your 'evidence' if you believed you had any would I suspect be in the category of 'political ideology' according to most.

As I said, most union reps will do all they can to avoid strikes, so a dozen years of negotiation with no strikes is worth it's weight in gold.

Dave in Hastings wrote:
Ah right.... Argus joining in with the worker bashing now eh? What a **** rag this is becoming.... Mouthpiece for the Tories and their paymasters in the City. Where's the connection then Argus... What little crumbs are your parent company and their shareholders getting for printing this rubbish story? At a time when the country has been stuffed by the fat cats, you try and pin it on the unions. What a disgusting bunch weasels you lot are. Why don't you try supporting the ordinary working people of this country, instead of the corrupt scum who are really responsible for the mess we are in. Oh, but that requires a bit more thought, research and intelligence than I suspect exists on your news desk.
What about coming on here and debating it eh?

Thats why hardly anyone reads it nowadays

Animal Farm in action!

Has someone hit a nerve here??? Union officals on union work should be paid by the union...

No unions get a look in to the private sector transport industry because those of us who work there are fully aware that its down to us personally to prove our worth. Which suits us and our employers and we get along just fine without rabble rousing leeches like the unions trying to justify their existence off our backs. They used to canvass outside the gates of the haulage firm I worked for in the 90s and got their backsides kicked by us.If only the public sector had the bottle to do the same thing insteadd of being strangled by an organisation that charges us all to represent its own interests.
Fed up with paying £3/4 grand a year season ticket from Brighton to London? Well you've got the unions to thank for that much the same as the death of british manufacturing, mining and unlimited other industries driven to their knees by the the unions who make it impossible to employ anybody and work them hard.
Fact is, most of us like to work hard, our homes and economy depend on it, how much longer should taxpayers fund the scourge of the british workforce?
Put the unions out of business before they do the same to us.