UK strikes: half a million workers demand ‘fair pay’
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- Опубліковано 31 січ 2023
- Up to half a million striking workers made today the biggest mass action in the UK since 2011.
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With teachers joining picket lines, working parents across England, Wales and Scotland had to make alternative arrangements as many schools and colleges closed to most or all pupils.
Thousands marched in London, where the head of the TUC called on the Prime Minister to "get round the table and deliver on public sector pay".
As well as teachers, also on strike today were around 70,000 University staff from the UCU, some 100,000 civil servants from over 120 government departments and thousands of train workers from RMT unions, as well as some London bus services.
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I'm so sick of these teachers, nurses, ambulance workers, railway workers, border controllers, doctors, postal workers, civil servants and driving test instructors. They clearly don't understand hard-working Brits, like hedge fund managers, political donors and millionaire tax dodgers... Those guys are the real heroes!
Will nobody think of the poor CEOs who can only afford four megayachts? Or the tragic case of the bankers who made billions betting against the pound? These selfish strikers clearly aren't thinking about the needs of the poor suffering in international tax havens throughout the world! For shame!
You forgot the news presenters , they should be on a minimum wage just because of the little work they do !
@@kappaslapper14I think "news" is a misleading term! Lol. I read a piece on the BBC about rising energy costs, which didn't mention the record profits made by the energy companies once. To quote a historian I admire, "that's like trying to write a history of England without using the letter 'E'."
didnt they voted for brexit?
You flood the labour market with labour and the value of labour decreases.
* e-tears * for the share holders. :(
If you look past the increase in national debt, the falling value of the pound, the NHS failing, the attack on the right to protest, fall in living standards, and many other things, at least we have more tax dodging millionaires. Surely that will save us!
Good analysis... It is similar to watching a train crash in very, very, very slow motion... Those of us over the age of 50, are watching our once-proud country gradually becoming the " sick man of Europe ".... and there is absolutely NOTHING we can do to stop it...
All Millionaires could disappear to a private island tomorrow. Then who will be to blame?
Why would anyone consent to have a portion of their earnings taken to be squandered by a corrupt government?
@@richardruff8712 Well, you had 30 years of not keeping politicians in line to get to this situation. Let's not pretend that this happened suddenly and without explanation. Ultimately the public is responsible for what their servants do.
Lol
Tupac: they've got money for wars but can't feed the poor.
I couldn’t name you one Tupac song as I never listened to any of his music.
But that statement rings true!
@@andrewmllns ua-cam.com/video/Qg16QOZJOV8/v-deo.html
listen to VIOLENT KILLUMINATI
We should help Ukraine at any cost. And also we should focus on India’s internal matters too.
@@bytpokornykareem8897 Why should WE? Ukraine can help them self same as India..we don't need to get involved...we need to stop helping all these other countries and focus on ourself...!
My cousin's a teacher in England, I was absolutely baffled to learn that she had to buy class furnitures herself.
Imagine, that would be funny if not serious
Like in Middle Eastern countries or Africa 😒
Are you serious ? Where in England ? Bless that human , hope he/ she get what they deserve in life. If not though pay then in other ways...
teachers are saps if they buy anything for the school
My brother was working as a systems control engineer in the UK for 29k, now he’s doing the same job for 55k in Austria. That trend is fairly common across industries. Pay in the UK is a disgrace.
It depends on a lot you know
Absolutely.
I work oil and gas. and even the pay fir this is terrible.
I now work internationally as the pay in uk is a disgrace.
We live half our life away from family, it’s dangerous and the money is shocking.
Is that 29k GBP to 55k AUD? Or the same currency?
This is exactly why I left the U.K. the salaries are awful! The same job you can be on 6 figures
Your friend is smart. I am in the same situation to him but different profession. Imagine if I had stayed to work in the UK after graduating. I would not have gotten the opportunity to earn a 100k euro salary. Now I get head hunted to work in the UK for similar job roles and I tell the recruiters their pay is not competitive enough (salary for London is shockingly low and cost of living is very high). There’s nothing competitive about the UK at all.
SHE did NOT just said it’s disappointing that teachers are standing up for themselves! Did she ?! Man, no one in the government cares or they’re delusional
But the government are doing everyone a favour by ‘listening to our concerns’ in the usual patronising manner then waiting for inconvenience fatigue to win the argument!
didnt they voted for brexit?
Literally could not care less.
The rich don’t care for the public teachers, eventually they’ll go back to work cuz the need a paycheque
The rich are paying for there own children to be educated on the right real things of life.
How to avoid taxes how to hustle the poor ect
Tories *
It must be noted that the strikes are not just for pay... It is also for how funding is made, terms and conditions, management, recruitment and safety(whether it is teachers, nurses, railway workers, civil servants).
But mate they literally want better pay . At the end of the day everyone will be on the same budget after they increase rail fairs tax nhs prescription 😂 it’s a joke
@@aggoni54 You speak as a Tory apologist then and want no change?
The news won't cover that.
@@measlesplease1266 You are of course quite correct. I've noticed a few vox pop (is that the right term) pieces where tv journos have been scouring city streets to find someone opposed to the strikes. Pretty well everyone they have spoken to have been in support, even after all the post and rail disruption we've had.
@@aggoni54 What do you suggest then ?
I left my teaching job after 2 years. I was a teacher from age 22-24. It destroyed my mental health. You do not get paid enough for the disgraceful behaviour and work load and stress that you have to deal with. My mental health is still so poor from teaching
Genuine question - would a higher salary have made you stay? Or do you think the profession is a mess in general?
@Sophie M I suppose it depends how much but don't think it would have made me stay, not for long anyway. I entered the profession knowing that students behaviour etc would be difficult but I didn't expect it to be as bad as it was. My nerves were worn down by being sworn at, shouted at and having doors slammed and chairs thrown about every day. I worked in a standard high school, I'm not sure if primary is any better. I work in insurance now for a better salary and way less stress 😅
@@sophiehughes1938 Thank you for replying. I was just curious because I used to work in education and I'm not sure that a higher salary would truly mitigate the excessive workload and other demands. I know more money is always nice to have of course, but it seems like the entire profession needs a huge overhaul.
I'm sorry you had such a terrible experience. It's no wonder you left!
@@sophiem5921 I suspect a higher salary would make it easier to recruit or retain staff, which would then make the workload easier.
@@iapetusmccool Yes, I'm sure it'd help in terms of staffing, but increased pay won't resolve the endless lesson planning and other paperwork, meetings, Ofsted etc.
She's unbelievable. The level of gaslighting of the general public and the teachers is unreal. "Can't afford bonuses" - also MPs gave themselves a bonus!
Rishi Sunak's first decrees are expected to allow Londoners to bathe , wash and defecate in the Thames.
@Thawne Uh why do you think 💀
@Thawne 💀
Our economy is at its worst point for decades and we are about to go into a recession of course they can't afford it....
Can you answer in more detail?
"do you think the public will on your side?"...... "we are the public, and we are not happy"....- best quote oof 2023. full support from me. we deserve more
You won’t be soon the immigrants will replace you.
Meh, you r just virtue signalling mate
Wrong. They are the Public Sector. The Private Sector, the self-employed and business owners and their employees, may think differently.
@@franco8flyline to who? Themselves? 😂
And how are the pay rises to be paid for?. One person's pay rise is another person's pay rise or tax rise. Lower standards of living are mostly the result of Brexit.
The maket trend can turn around very quickly. In fact, the indexes often switch from a bear market to a bull market when the news is at its worst and the mood of investors is at its lowest point. I read an article of people that grossed profits up to $150k during this crash, what are the best stocks to buy now or put on a watchlist?.
@@iclaldizdar7007 How can one find a resourceful FA, I buy the idea of employing their services, its a shame market crashes as of late have become a sort of habit for stocks
hi iclal Thank you for this tip. it was easy to find your coach. and I conducted thorough research on her credentials before scheduling a call with her. Based on her résumé, she appears to possess a high level of proficiency, and I am grateful for the opportunity to speak with her.
I like your thinking.
Stocks shares and investment cannot be covered for all in any time gap and I suggest you get expert advice for your requirements elsewhere for legal reasons.
None on these boards would disagree I think, but be wary of those that promise you millions if you choose not to heed my advice, greed is a naughty partner..
@@iclaldizdar7007
Yeah, Please show the credential even as I think I smell a fish
I was a paralegal on 19k at 25 and still paying off £70k for an undergraduate and masters, so I moved to New Zealand and now I’m on $24 a hour work 3 days a week and make more money than I’d ever do in England
Hey, can you tell me more about this? I am a paralegal now
In the UK. and am strugglingggg
🏅
@@radhika5802 the firm I was at had no progression and I didn’t want to spend all my time looking for training contracts when I know I can’t afford to take the LPC or SQE so I thought the best thing for me to do is leave whilst I have no commitments
Considering MP's get paid twice as much as teachers, and spend most of their time fast asleep on the back benches, is a slap in the face to all the teachers trying to educate their children.
Or watching porn on the back benches !!
They got away with it, if they did a good job. But the Tories are useless. Get them out, vote for another party. Any party, doubt they will do it worse.
the pay structure should be reversed, the MPs get paid what the teachers are paid and the teachers get the MP pay plus the bonus every year
And MPs have second job as well !
If The british want Freedom and Democracy, they should abolish Royalty and his CO Foundation, World Econimic facist Forum. But sadly people are so blind they cant even notice their enemy when his right infront of them. Its litterally Your KING and WEF running your country, the rest are just dogs on a dog leash. How are you going to demand change when you think its Russia, China or some middle eastern country that is your enemy. Fools in Fools out.
The people on strike ARE the public.
@@aussiej2973 what's wrong with Marxism?
The self employed aren't, we are too busy earning money.
As a hedge fund manager I feel this ability for workers to strike should be made illegal. When things go wrong for us hedge fund managers we don’t go on strike, we just kill ourselves, or move to Argentina with your pension
😂😂😂
"Disruptive and disappointing"... Nonsense, kids could do with a bit more time at home. "Missing a day of learning" doesn't matter, we all know that, we've all been to school ourselves. Kids are overworked, drilled and examined at schools from far too young an age as it is.
I'm a security guard in boots, and the hundreds of kids today out of school all behaved. Good on the younguns. Fair pay.
Wasn’t like that when I was a kid 😂
Must have been your lucky day..🤔😯
But.... can you wear shoes instead if you want to?
Woke up , you had a nice dream 😅😅😅
The most oppressive government.. Millions going to Ukraine to prolong the war so more ppl can die but no pay rise for uk ppl.. uk comes first not Ukraine but no the uk government is telling lies to its ppl on mass scale … lies after lies ..
Things will NEVER change unless people continue to come together and say, enough is enough.
This is true. We can no longer stick our heads in the sand. People must come together and fight against this corrupt morally bankrupt government
If all these people are so sure they are worth more than they are being paid then why not find a new job that pays more, and quit?
All of these people will be replaced if needed. Goverment cant give pay rises every time someone ask for it.
You are a worker but also an consumer. Any salary increase is simply passed on to the taxpayers or the customer.
@@sajuente8235 Replaced by whom? We already don't have enough teachers. Would you doom our future out of pride?
The pay in UK is absolutely shocking. It is not that uneducated, lazy people live in poverty but hard working professionals cannot afford the basics. My professional salary is just enough to pay rent, bills and basic food and I work 6 days a week. I have seriously started considering working part-time, claim housing benefit and the other part of the week working for hand to hand cash. There is absolutely no the other way out of poverty in the UK if you do not own a house.
Fascinating! I just can't figure out how often new videos appear?
"Do you think the people will put up with this?"
"We are the people."
I need that energy in my life for everything that I do.
Rishi Sunak's first decrees are expected to allow Londoners to bathe , wash and defecate in the Thames.
@Thawne do you still live with your parents if you don't understand what a cost of living crisis is? No money no food no rent no nothing.
@@MasterOfBaiter
Do you understand the link that wage rises have to inflation?
@@6chhelipilot do you understand that it's exactly that inflation do to constant tax cuts for the rich that these people need a correction. Their salaries literally are worth less cause of shitty government that's why they need more of it.
@@6chhelipilot Rising wages is a small factor in inflation. Most factors in inflation are well beyond even a unions influence. The economy is global, and inflation comes from every part of it.
If I had 24 complaints of bullying against me I would be suspended following investigation.
We must always remember that the 650 vegetables, sorry, politicians, in the Westminster " bubble ", really are living on planet " make believe "... and normal rules do NOT apply to them...
But if you were Home Secretary, it'd be shrugged off. Says everything.
I'd be under a desk hiding from colleagues.
Yh especially if Fishi Rishi owes you one. The bunch of them are crooks covering up for each other
It depends where you work. Enough non-government bullies out there and due to company profits, still remain in their job. Each example known and discussed among close friends are being female managers.
The irony is that I once got offered a teaching job in the UK that paid 33% less than the equivalent in Australia. And tax has higher. No wonder the agent begged me to join. I decided I'd holiday to the UK instead, but the job was a firm no.
So by Australian standards, UK teachers need a 50% pay boost. Don't question my percentages, if you know, you know.
Strikes only affect low class and middle class. Remember, Rishi is driving a nice limousine not a train from your house to your place of work.
The corruption and greed in UK parliamentary is staggering
Yes and millionaires dodging tax!! It has to been reigned in !!
@@Sarah-qo9bu yes, screw charities we wont give them any money we need it all.
you do realize that if a buisness gets taxed 30% more that means to can produce 30% less and hire 30% less meaning its far worse for the economy,
of course you dont.
It's amazing how many billions they could suddenly find to give to their mates so they could make a tracking app that didn't work
And the PPE done by their pals that had no experience with said PPE, and consequently ended up not being fit for purpose.
Rishi Sunak's first decrees are expected to allow Londoners to bathe , wash and defecate in the Thames.
Like the billions Labour found to fight a fake illegal war, that kind of billions?
What about the billions lost because that skelly eyed muppet Brown nose sold our gold reserves at pennies on the pound to prop up Blair's economy after he fucked it with a fake war.
I don't think the tracking app was fraudulent. Most of the money was invested into the backend, which involved building servers, buying out facilities, hiring contractors and the sorts. The amount of money spent sufficed for building an app ground up in the matter of weeks, but it was ineffective because nobody wanted it on their phones.
Where the money for other projects (PPE) disappeared to however, is definitely fishy. You know who to vote for the next election
£10bn subsidies for North Sea exploration.
Your kids are important and they deserve only the best teachers - not ones who are on the bread line!!
So I'm a private sector worker and I support strikes. I feel a lot of public sector work is crucial for well standard of living. The last interviewee stated that the govt would be most concerned about teachers striking. Would they not be more concerned regarding nurses striking?
Further to this also the govt has all public sector workers over the barrel because unfortunately our actual culture is very lone wolf minded, and you can see by the woman complaining about her train being late etc. Due to how economies work there will always ideally be more private than public sector employees, If the govt ignore the strikers long enough and nurses, teachers etc are not doing their jobs and kids have issues or people die. The govt knows the public perception i.e the privately employees will turn against them eventually.
Ministers of departments shouldnt get paid whilst people are on strike.
HERE HERE. I love this so much. What a sensible and level headed idea. Sorry if that’s sounds sarcastic it’s genuinely not. You’re bang on the money here !
We voted for them to represent us, so are you trying to oust government like a fascist? The protestors are greedy selfish morons taking away children's and others' rights.
We should pay ALL polititians the national average wage, and not allow them second jobs.
@@alexanderromanov737 you mean minimum wage ??
@@alexanderromanov737 So you want politicians to be poorly educated so they can make terrible decisions just because they couldn't actually grasp what the implications of their policies are in the long term? Probably this means they likely follow the direction of the lobbyist that pays most.
I don't have kids but I fully support the strikes. My parents were teachers and struggled to make ends meet. This is ridiculous. Teaching is an essential industry and should be treated accordingly.
The strikes are exactly what the WE F masters want,,they use the plight of workers to engineer the further destruction of our FIAT money system to justify the introduction of the CBDC ,! Just watch & wait ! Union s will infiltrated by freemasons who carry out their orders ! Nothing you see is what you think it is right now ,,we are and have for many many years been manipulated by the entities that really run this planet ! When you see it you can't unsee it,,I wish I could.
Two fulltime teachers living together,with a combined salary....and could hardly makes ends meet?
Maybe living well beyond their means?
You are right, but it is not an industry. It is a core duty of every civilizend society and state. It should never be privatized and always be funded sufficiently. Teachers should enjoy good social reputation in every community. Much better reputation than politicians or clerics or physicians. The payment should reflect their invaluable contribution.
They couldnt make ends meet? Maybe tell them to stop spending excessively.
@@Michael020 I don't think you understand the scope of the problem as they could've been making between £48,000 to £70,000 combined. After paying a 15 year mortgage that falls to between £28,000 and £58,000 per year. If they both work at different schools they'll probably have two cars already, draining the budget down to £21,000 and £51,000. The house they live in needs to have utilities as well, begetting a mealy £18,500 and £48,500. Paying for food results in £14,500 and £44,500, add on some misc stuff for council tax etc. and you'll see they would have about £9,000 and £39,000 for 3 people not including other siblings so, no they aren't living above their means they are barely scraping by as there's a multitude of costs I haven't mentioned. This is if they both work full time if one does and the other doesn't expect 2/3rd the salaries so that's £32,000 or £47,000 to live on and the average 3 person UK household spends around £35,000 per year.
A Level 9 nurse earns £110,000+, plus a gold-plated pension, sick benefits bar none, who's fooling who?
Agree, jokers.
Public support for these strikes will continue to grow as it continues to become clear that pay is not the only reason most people are striking. Working conditions and enforced changes are more of an issue in most cases
Funny how letting bankers have massive bonuses, ceo pay and bonuses skyrocketing has no effect on inflation at all. Evidently. According to Chunt and Fishi Rishi . Of course if more Non doms and their ilk actually paid tax here it would be a big help.
So it's the mob politics of envy at play. A lot of people would wonder why anyone on £40k would go on strike. Taking the mickey. Shop at Aldi.
Gary stevenson watch his video ripping into the goverment on politicslive and your understand why were in inflation
The Government have no control over what private companies pay their workers, so unfortunately your analogy doesn't really work.
@@WookiRahhHave to agree-Gary Stephensons vids on inflation is eye opening.
They get massive pay because they work in the private sector bringing wealth to the country.
Those that work in the public sector are parasites.
Hey guys the government thinks its "disruptive and disappointing"...👀😂
then maybe they ought to negotiate with the striking unions in good faith
@@Max.Resilience🤣
It let's the side down chaps, it lets the side down😔
Yeah not really something to laugh at considering the Tories are actively trying to to take the right to protest away.
Naaaah.. I sense that they are only looking for pretext to farm out the teaching, healthcare and other public services to AI driven system, administered from India or some such place.
Solidarity with all striking workers! ✊
If us retail workers were to "Strike" the country would be mad with us!
Maybe, but that just shows how important you are. Maybe you _should_ go on strike.
Got to admire them for actually getting out there and demanding what they're worth. If only other unions had as much power.
Brexit does nothing for the country
@@angelachanelhuang1651 didn't mean the EU
If all these people are so sure they are worth more than they are being paid then why not find a new job that pays more, and quit?
Any wage increase is simply passed onto the taxpayers or customers. Have you thought about that?
@@Bk6346 If only there was a large number of people which hold the majority of wealth of the 6th largest economy in the world which could pay more and not the people who actually have to worry about living costs.
Life has become unbearable in the uk
Leave then 🤷♂
@@masterp3409 where to
Move away from diverse areas there are still actually British places left
@@athejbaka7084 what are "diverse" areas? Sorry, not from britain
Stock up this system is in terminal decline,
Where has she got the idea that energy prices have come back down? They certainly haven't for the consumer. Just because the price of gas has reduced it doesn't mean we're being charged less for it. That's just complete nonsense.
Get out of UK and come over to the USA if you can.
Here in the MidWest USA jobs are plentiful. Now hiring signs are everywhere.
Weather is decent. Farmers markets are open and interesting. Locals, the Amish and immigrants all bring plenty of stuff.
We have shortages of Nurses and most of the other workers.
Housing is decent, rental and for ownership, I think.
We just helped a new arriving immigrant family last year!
They are renting and they have jobs!
If you make it to the USA I welcome you brother and sister!
Yet Sunak and his cronies would have you believe that these people are not members of the public. And, that the public, whoever that might be, needs to be protected from them.
Indeed, obfuscation of the highest order.
The private sector tax payer will have to fund these pay rises, during a recession. It is selfish and unfair.
@@areyousur3 Please reflect on your choice of the words selfish and unfair in the context of your concern that tax money may be used to pay people equitably for the work they do.
@@jananders1351 “pay people equitably” national debt sits at £2T, it doubles to £4T when you just include public sector pensions.
Public sector teachers have it easier than most. Try showing up to a job in the private sector with a placard, demanding a 16% pay rise while the business has seen a reduction in revenue, and see how long your job lasts.
Don’t tell me to reflect on my choice of words. What a low T smooth brained response.
@Ed Straker that is obviously unfair also. 2 wrongs don’t make a right. Giving teachers a 16% pay rise during a recession with private sector tax payer funds and also wasting private sector funds on other nonsense are both wrongs that shouldn’t happen.
Imagine working 10 hours a day and 5 dYs a week and just paying rent and saving just enough for food and transport to work fees
Id rather live in a car and not work
Indeed this is my current situation, at the present moment with no signs of ending.
I work 6 to 7 days a week to just get by. This is hopeless.
I am so lucky to live with my parents or i'd be on the street
Some can't even afford to pay rent for a flat, living with multiple people.
Inflation didn’t just go up because of the war and supply chains. It’s the demand side too as the government printed billions of pounds.
As a Canadian - good on the Brits, they always show us how to strike properly.
Message to Rishi "Rich Man" Sunak: Now that you have had more than just one cuppa tea that is - at No. 10 Downing Street, I would like you to WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE my son! The nation is in FLAMES and UP IN ARMS! If you can't take the heat, GET OUT of the kitchen. Nuff said.
Ukraine needs More Money.
@Democracy is Dead yes, very much appreciated, but hurry up next time, and while you sent 14 tanks estimated 120 Million £££ it is polite of you, but can you send more money and F14 jets too!
TA, ukraine....
They need to understand that we are the public and we’ve got enough from their lies and their arrogant ignorance!!
They need to understand that THEY work for US as public SERVANT! When we are ever going to block millionaires from becoming one?
@@jccc666 why should you block someone from generating their own wealth? why are you putting yourself in a position to rely on the government to make a living? it’s ludicrous. Why do you think money is evil? It’s not society that is dumb it is you and whoever thinks like you
@@jaadthefirst3919 dig a little deeper, Jaad. You really cannot be that thick…
@@jccc666 unlike you i got no self limiting belieifs and dont rely on a wage provided by the government to make a living so i cant imagine which of us both is truly thick my friend
If The british want Freedom and Democracy, they should abolish Royalty and his CO Foundation, World Econimic facist Forum. But sadly people are so blind they cant even notice their enemy when his right infront of them. Its litterally Your KING and WEF running your country, the rest are just dogs on a dog leash. How are you going to demand change when you think its Russia, China or some middle eastern country that is your enemy. Fools in Fools out.
Come on Britons, Enough partying on the loot of India & Africa! Now you are realizing that you need to earn money rather than just drinking in pubs and getting your money for living lavishly (The money covered with blood of Millions) from your Government.
Devil's advocate, we're all upset after being paid to sit at home for 6 months in 2020 and we're confused how inflation has increased cost of living?
80% of the gbp that has ever been printed, was printed in 2020. We're actually lucky that our situation is not worse, but it will be.
That being said, nurses need more pay. They slaved away during the pandemic for nothing. Also what I do agree with is that politicians shouldn't have gotten bonuses and pay rises.
My big real gripe is the energy companies. That's who we should be directing our anger at.
solidarity with the workers
Bunch of greedy Fs , why should they get a pay rise ,I don't think so
My electricity bill for the past 5 weeks was 700 quid.
didnt they voted for brexit?
@@mrrobot6926 No, the ballot paper said Leave.
@@dominiclane8538 then they should quit. Including the doctors and nurses you’ll need if you ever have a medical emergency.
'fair pay' disgusting how it has to be referred to as "fair"
Retail should strike
Petrol stations should strike
end Brexit
It should be damn good pay, why should we take pride in cheapening our labour?
How do you calculate "Fair" pay objectively and of course to main competitiveness and growth of the economy in the future?
I think this is the least controversial comments section I’ve ever seen 😮 pay workers fairly! It’s absolutely astounding that the people who work in jobs that they have true passion for are paid the least!
My job working for JCB and Porsche ended Feb 2020 terminated with *pneumonia* - bosses got 100k furlough each and I got ICU bedroom tax and _no heat in Winter_
Simple math, if bills go up, your wages have to go up. End of story.
Tories are mathematically illiterate for numbers below 1,000,000
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Absolutely 💯
Any evidence of that?
Yep even when am bad at maths simple maths that
I believe more people must go on strikes. Retail services, too. Hospitality strikes. But most private companies wouldn't allow it. To lose their profit.
Very well said,retail workers are not striking if they can survive on minimum wage,how can these professionals who get more than 20.000 go on strike how is that not enough money for them.
Hospitality for sure!
@@asavlogsalltruthrevealed7483 most retail workers are either still at home with mum and dad unable to leave due to their poverty wages. Or they are under 18. Or they are very elderly people on fixed contracts that have good pay because they got jobs in the company before the neoliberal wave of profit over all. They have great pension funds (compared to new hires) and so on.
The other big category of retail worker (at least in supermarkets where I worked for 7 years in one of the big 5) are single mums who rely on state benefits to make up the shortfall of the wages. Ie no one is “surviving” off these wages alone there’s aways be necessity something else keeping them afloat.
Hospitality can be traumatic tbh ive done it for 7 years
Do you know the effect on children and the sick that would have? The neo-left are so greedy and selfish.
UK: we select our leaders without general election.
Also UK: eveyone else should elect their leaders after general election.
Public sector workers on average are paid more than private sector workers but it's the private sector workers who pay for their wage increase through tax and the cost of living is just as expensive for the private sector too. Also the energy companies are still charging us premium price for energy when cost's have dropped.
I think News broadcasters should be on minimum wage , then we might not have them standing up for greedy Governments .
didnt they voted for brexit?
A lot of them should be on gallows. Julius Streicher just published a propaganda magazine but he was hanged for crimes against humanity.
No they would just have to take bribes because they aren't paid enough
Can we all just get out of this post pandemic mess that we were all pulled into. If teachers did a full time job with less excessive holidays then the public might have some sympathy for them. Teachers unions don’t care that teachers wages will prevent poorer workers from having enough money to live on. The head teacher over the road from me was given 7k towards a car and her family can get the same deal. Thanks a bunch. My pension gets less every month.
@@mrrobot6926 Those countries still in Europe are having similar demonstrations in case you haven’t noticed.
"The Government described today's action as disruptive and disappointing."
Yeah, that's the point of a strike. I swear to god, they say you could get 1000 monkeys and 1000 typewriters to write Shakespeare eventually, it would only take 5 monkeys 5 hours to write a Government response
Don't think it would take one monkey an hour hun.
Why supermarkets colleague are not doing any kind of strike. We are under paid too! 😭
>> An England school teacher that's qualified starts as a newly qualified teacher with a teaching salary £28,000 to £34,502 according to the school location in England.
The median average salary for those working full-time is £33,000
The mean average salary for those working full-time is £39,966
That means that a teacher starting out in the industry is decently close to the median/average salary of UK and that's excluding further pay rises if they rise up the ranks... e.g they can if they're the head teacher (principal) £131,353 at the top of possibilities.
Apart from Unions just pushing for further pay rises since they benefit I would hazard to guess its living cost increases.
Teachers do a great job. The funding of schools is now really shocking .I was a UK teacher years back and things were tough then .When I came to Germany all was so different ..Even for the MOD schools used German budgets which were available .Here I could never spend my allowance ! UK was always make do , mend or buy from your own money .Tories like to keep state schools down .They , after all use private ..
Rishi Sunak's first decrees are expected to allow Londoners to bathe , wash and defecate in the Thames.
My gym membership? 😂 If only some had that. Public sector needs to wake up - private sector workers also not getting huge increases and most certainly not life time pension. Shameful holding the nation to randsom.
Just ask yourself this was this country is this dire state when we were still in the EU - No so why can't we just go back to it and when will the uk government hold their hands up and say We made a Huge mistake coz it's only going to get worse from now on
Why should the working class alone pay steep prices for failures of the Tory government? Shouldn't the ruling elites also rescind the tax-cuts given to the riches？
What tax cuts ? More than one third of all income tax is paid by the top 1% of earners, 90% of all income tax by the top 50% of earners.
The bottom 50% who you probably refer to as the working class, pay a tiny 10%. This applies to National insurance contributions as well.
Most low earners receive far more from the state than they contribute.
@@jjefferyworboys8138 low-income workers don't contribute much in tax. They contribute massively in the actual work they do. If they all stopped working, the entire economy would grind to a halt.
Finally the Brits take to the streets 👏
Some have been protesting the last few years for our Freedom, millions upon millions of us. The news didn’t report those protests.
The UK is broke. No one will save you.
@@yurichtube1162 we shall save ourselves
@@TheGreatAwakening1111 No, you won't. No one wants to buy British bonds. Not EU, USA or China. Especially China doesn't want them, which says alot. You're an enemy for them on behest of the US empire. The UK has lost all international prestige, no one will ever invest in a corrupt vassal state of the USA. After how Russian assets were stolen by the UK, all other countries are already packing and leaving.
@@yurichtube1162 it goes a little deeper than that
teachers and nhs workers start on £15 an hour....
security guards working 12-16 hour shifts (up to 112 hours a week) on minimum wage of £9.50 even on nightshift and need to fork out every 3 years for extra training and license renewal and are unable to strike.... when do they get a decent wage?
one extra repair, dentist, doctor, dinner, electronics expense can damage the monthly budget.. that's not fair.
06:13 There you go. She called it a “people’s business”. They see it education, a public good, like a business and not a public service. With that mindset they will never fix the problem
Mass strike action can lead to important changes in current and future government policy. This is why you have things like paid holidays and a free use NHS. If you are not a multi millionaire you should be pleased that these people are fighting for your rights and those of your children. We need fair wealth distribution by taxing the wealth of the richest in society and providing good public services for all . This wont happen without industrial action until the government are forced to act in the interests of the majority and not just the mega wealthy who corrupt our political system.
Well done the strikers!
Can also lead to a non stop decline in the countries economy like it did in the 70s, and like it does in Spain
We don't want wealth distribution by taking from others. We want the government out of our pockets and the opportunity to improve our own lives by having our efforts rewarded.
Im a small business owener and all these strikes are having a massive impact on my business. We are facing decling sales and I am having to cut staffing to keep the business running. Before anyone kicks off that I am a millionaire, I am not, I own a sandwich shop. We survived the pandemic but now these strikes and the rising costs are hurting even more. The strikes do not help me pay the bills but more importantly my staff are missing out on pay because I cannot afford to have them at work. No sales = no hours for staff. How will these strikes help my staff? How will they help pay my bills? I will be lucky to keep my store open past April. Everyone is entitled to fair pay for sure but a train driver on £55k is already well paid!
Higher waged workers just pushed costs up more.
@@thakers123 Blame the govt for not negotiating. 13 years of record low wage growth has caused this. Don't blame the strikers.
Yes
OK, but your all on better pay then me and I cannot strike. And your strike have left me without pay for a week as I cannot get into work.
Why should you get more pay by stopping me from working?
This government is finished 🙄
The tories were finished years ago, it is only first past the post voting system that gets them in.
Doesn't matter the mongs will just vote Labour again, and the whole circle will start again.
@@simonh6371 "...mongs..." would Boris Johnson please step forward.
They're not.
Need a strong leader ,that's not WOKE who has never taken the knee.
This is a society problem .
Teachers have to be supported now or nobody will be supported.
Teachers are intelligent people.
They understand the perils of rampant inflation more than Rolling In It Rishi.
Rishi was a professional gambler for self gain before his political career.
As a defense attorney, I can tell you that if the government wants to convict you, they can figure out a way.
Always tell people, “never put yourself in a position where it even looks like you could be committing a crime”
yeah we're in a dangerous epoch where men or women who haven't done a law degree are in ministries of law-making.
Wo/men, now play solicitors and barristers, like men/women play doctors & nurses in ministries of health.
There should be a rule of Keep Out: for, civil servants/quango staff, who do not have qualified training in the area.
Law amateurs think Law is a wishlist.
It is actually mirrored on Christianity.
@@markoshea6833 correct
Where is Nigel Farage? Is this the Brexit he imagined? I thought he said all the euros that the UK had to send to the EU would be freed and invested back to UK workers and the NHS. This is separate from inflation and COVID. Where is the money?
I now question what the true intention of Farage was?
Sold out by WEF controlled government who were always against it.
Not a single big business pays tax in this country. All of these just by coincidence are American or European businesses. Your kind of people have killed this country. The EU has an unbreakable grip because people like you fail to recognise foreign powers own this country.
He's drinking on television and telling us we can all disagree, in a grown up way. Or he's down Kent on a boat making himself relevant by stirring up division and hate.
He's living the good life, why would he show his ugly face after the disaster he's made? Why should he care about the masses?
ah yes its always Brexit fault not the pointless lockdowns and giving billions of money to a corrupt country
I support these people , love them.
I’m all for the strikers, but the First Lady who said she had to cut back on gym membership? That’s a luxury a lot of us can’t afford!!
Exactly, and there's me having tomato soup for the next week, the last thing I could ever afford is a gym membership let alone fresh food on the table, she was really taking the dam mick
to all the people saying "just get another job!"
this isn't an individual problem. if one person leaves another person would just fill their position. it doesn't change anything. all it does is renew the cogs in an increasingly broken machine. we need better working conditions and pay for EVERYONE. we all deserve a living wage!
We can't stand living here anymore, the whole country and system is a complete mess
@pm That's absolutely besides the point. Why should Brits feel lucky to bow down to the King rather sticking up for living- surviving- standards?!
nothing stopping you leaving
@pm the Monarchy, Prince Andrew, Jimmy Saville,lady Diana, Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein. Never forget the past
I guess this is what Boris's "high wage economy" looks like.
He never mentioned for who. 🤷
Fair pay ?
Europe is broke with no commodities to trade from .
Africa supports Russia 🇷🇺 right to self defense
From west Africa
🦅
Can't have high wages with 10 million foreign born in the country.
@@truckerfromreno that's right, it's all the foreigners fault. Definitely not any tories policies. Time to give Tories another 13 years
@@truckerfromreno lol
When is the energy prices coming down, I haven't seen it
Full support for the british workers from Spain!!!
“We are the public.” I love that. ❤
@Thawne Capitalism in action.
The gov keeps talking about the effects of the strikes on "hardworking taxpayers." WE are hardworking taxpayers too!
Rishi Sunak's first decrees are expected to allow Londoners to bathe , wash and defecate in the Thames.
@@TimothyBushell yes, people would be shot if they tried to have a strike in socialism, this is capitalism trying to sort out problems
@@pastlesandfish I don't think that you are meant to end a sentence with a preposition.
"We aswell are taxpayers".
In hindsight, maybe 'too' ain't a preposition.
Honestly it's shocking they haven't been striking sooner. Across the last decade they lost over 20% of their wages. They haven't been given a pay raise for years as there wasn't any offer above the inflation rate ( so pay cut in real terms)
These train drives are getting £65.000 a year about time we boo them . These striker are making are lives harder and there making people poor
As an Italian I find this strange. There are half a million Italians in London alone. Many young italians dream to work in UK, especially in London. English salaries are higher.
When you look at the difference in inflation over a 20 year period, you'll understand why. Your money goes nowhere. £20 is both a lot, and absolutely fudge all at the same time. £30k 20 years ago is currently worth half the amount. I last looked into this when we hit an 81% increase over the past 20 years (based on 2003), and this has since gone over 100%. The value of our currency has been halved within 20 years. That 30k you may have been earning back in 2003 was worth 54.3k last year, now over 60k. Current wages do not match this. Far from it.
You compare people's wages, and the actual value of the payslip today. It's no wonder why the UK is in a collapse, people are refusing to work for awful wages, all while the people benefitting from the poverty of others smile and crack on.
Suicide rates are soaring, people's wellbeing and health are at pivotal lows, and I'm seeing an awful lot of lying and theft here in London at the moment. (I'm hearing worse stories back home in Wales)
I dread to think of what the future holds for the youth here, as they're being taught this by the people desperate enough to put these motives into action.
There's a reason why it's happening. People are desperately struggling.
What a beautifully worded statement but so depressing to read and live through.
End sanctions on Russia, end the green agenda.
@@yurichtube1162 I'm sure you can explain this in further detail instead of spouting idle lines. We can post paragraphs here good sir. It's a controversial topic, and I'm you've got some well thought out middle ground to work from relating to it.
Moar m4ss m1gr4t10n r3qu1r3d
is that what's called net present values? Cigarettes due to gov tax in Ireland has gone up 1,000% in Ireland.
Chocolate bars have also increased by 1,000% over the same thirty year period.
Car prices didn't. Price of teas didn't.
I mean...what about the tuition fee :(( It's disheartening to see tuition fees increase during the pandemic. It seems that politicians are the only ones benefiting from the policies while the rest of us suffer. This is a common issue in many countries, where workers are calling for fair pay and fair policies. Let's hope this leads to positive change.
Also British people working at hagwon back in Korea havent had a pay increase in 10 years. The wage is stagnant.
There has been a wage freeze in many fields and there has been no increase in 15YRs! The Uk needs to pull their finger out..
Good on them. Shareholders/Owners delegate the responsibility of day to day business to managers. Most managers are offered shares or share options as compensation this encourages them to act in the business best interests.
I am an British senior citizen, I have worked all my life and paid all my taxes and contributions, it’s now absolutely ridiculous, disgraceful and downright unacceptable that I cannot afford to heat my home, and have hot meals, it’s time we looked after our own, who have paid taxes and contributions all our lives, we should be priority, not pushed aside like we don’t deserve to be treated like we don’t exist, we need a government whom listen and work for the country, NOT FOR THEMSELVES, I can’t go on strike for more cost of living pay rise, this country is absolutely finished, there is no compassion, caring or loyalty for people who are British born and bred any more, no freedom of speech and devastationley no law to protect us at all, HEARTBREAKING
Did you vote for Brexit?
Have you ever voted for the Conservative party?
Rishi Sunak's first decrees are expected to allow Londoners to bathe , wash and defecate in the Thames.
I'm over 90% British too but they give me nothing either, because I was born in Australia. Can't seem to get a fair go anywhere in the world these days 😂
“British born and bred !” Are you joking Brenda ? Have you looked at who your generation have not just elected,but gave complete and total power too for the past 12 years ? Where do you think these incompetent,corrupt liars get any income from,when they have sold off our energy,our transport,our health,our water……pay to park at Bristol airport………..and your money goes to the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund. Try thinking Brenda !!!
If the Tories can find money to give their mates sleazy under the table contracts, they can find money to pay ordinary, hard working people properly
When there was a prorogation
of parliment in 2019 did MPs have a pay cut for not turning up for work for 5 weeks? Asking for a friend....
Compromise seriously. This isn't a Compromise situation.
Fair pay ?
Europe is broke with no commodities to trade from .
Africa supports Russia 🇷🇺 right to self defense
From west Africa
🦅
@@criessmiles3620 Okay, what about Russia's colonisation of Ukraine
Just can't wait to see the chaos and up roar when Retail workers do this
Thats probably next right before civil war
I think there is very little unionisation in the retail sector.
It needs an unending General Strike, to force the Government to give in... Sadly, these one day " bits and pieces " strikes are NOT doing any damage to the MP's, safely protected in the Westminster " bubble " on planet " make-believe "....
@@trickygoose2 Absolutely right.
Won't happen, there is very little unionisation in the retail sector. Bottom line, get a better paid job, do whatever it takes.
This is pathetic. These people are not on a pittance. Try living within your means. I'm a teacher and manage just fine. If you have kids, big mortgages, credit cards etc that's on YOU.
Think that all these people striking deserve every support we can give them. Overall it affects the standard of living for everyone. Not just a Minority of Rich Elitists Using the Population as a Cash Cow.
Respect to all teachers and support staff. They, like the other striking workers, deserve and need to get properly funded pay rises to match inflation. I considered maths teaching after university, but the pay, especially in comparison to going into finance, wasn't nearly enough to live a quality of life as most people want getting older.
They want a dumbed down public that questions nothing ,,the mind programming they are doing to our grandson in school right now leaves them scared,,politics Iraq etc,,and he is only 10 ! School and university is where the globalist groom their agendas !
30-40 thousand a year and they want pay rise?
@Thawne because they want more. never enough
@Thawne because teachers aren't payed enough, they aren't greedy they are taking so much time of their lives trying to educate children so that they can be in a good position in the future, teachers deserve more
@@HiHi-zv7zo oh yeah and you are sure they are doing good. My mate is a male teacher and has just quit because the female teachers are starting to follow the USA with pride flags and white supremacy allowing kids of color to smoke in class and purposely down marking white males
You can't be a position of responsibility like that and say 'I think' !!! it's not good enough
UK workers, there's no money, our wages are poor...
But the pubs are always full on weekends...
Explain that to me in not more than 50 words, I'm waiting.