So what is the pay of train drivers, GP’s, civil servants, teachers etc, are they all on the breadline like a couple of million pensioners …..
Can only speak of civil servants as I’am one but it has been below inflation for more than a decade.
When I first got in it was a good place to start a career as the pay was better than what you’d get in the private sector.
They private sector had way surpassed the civil service now in terms of pay, which is why our union continue to pressurise the politicians into rectifying that.
For what I do, the pressure of the job, and its importance I don’t feel I’am anywhere near fairy compensated, which is why I’ve gone on unpaid strike to try and change that.
There’s a reason why there are huge staff shortages right across the public sector.
Pay, working conditions, cuts, poor middle management, low morale, are issues right across the board.