Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
Now to get back on the topic.
It was stated in last Sunday’s Sunday Times newspaper that the General Secretary of the RMT receives and annual pay and pension package of £163,500 while a GP partner in an average practice earns £115,000 per annum.
GP partners are classed as self employed and will have to make their own pension contributions from their annual salary.
The question is who gives value for their annual salary package.
The GP who is trying to his patients life or the General Secretary of the RMT who is hell bent on preserving outdated and inefficient working practices throughout the U.K. railway network and is happy to bring the country to a standstill by telling his union members to go on strike
First off a union general secretary does not tell anyone to go on strike, the union ballots its members who then decide on industrial action.

Comparing salaries is a great idea. How is it that someone who does a completely different job to someone else gets paid less than that other person? It's ridiculous,everyone should be paid exactly the same, like with erm........communism.

But if we are gonna do this.... Boris earns 175k a year,gets at least 2 free houses, a car,security detail,claims pretty much everything on expenses and had his downing street flat decorated with gold wallpaper.

Where is the value from this? Surely a GP partner should be earning more than that?

I would argue we also get more value from bus drivers, train drivers, bin men,nurses, firemen,police,ferry drivers, posties,dentists,and many many others. Surely they all should at least have the same as the PM??

And if they make mistakes,or break the law, we should ask how many big calls they got right,say all of them regardless of all the mistakes,and let them carry on