RE: Firefighters strike – a review.
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 03-12-02 AT 01:18 AM (GMT)]Does this pay dispute include the airport fire service?
I go to either LHR or LGW at least half dozen times per month, and in the last ten years I dont think Ive seen them called out to an emergency, apart from when the Virgin A340 crash landed a few years ago.
I wouldnt mind a 40% pay rise for doing nothing, yes, yes, I know they have to be there and their job is high risk, but sometimes it seems like money for old rope.
I cant help feeling that if we all lived to our means there wouldnt be such a high cost of living.
Following on to what wysiwyg said, any union rep. would go in with a high demand, it gives a higher margin for negotiation, but the press latch on to it and very soon everyone thinks that the union’s are greedy.
Everyone deserves a substantial pay rise periodocally, but within reason, at the end of the day the firemen will get their payrise, however much it is, but it will be us , Joe Public, who’ll pay for it through our council tax, then eventually prices will start to rise, then interest rates will climb, then they’ll be back to square one.
Then the cycle starts all over again, this time with another industry trying their luck.
Dave
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