Special report: Wage Wars as the UK's cost of living crisis bites
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2022
- More than a million public sector workers could soon be asked if they want to go on strike over pay.
Numerous ballots have already begun, prompting questions about whether a winter of industrial action is on the horizon.
In this special report, Sky's Nick Martin meets a nurse, a teacher and a firefighter to hear their cases on why they should get an increase in pay.
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"We need to see what's affordable for the tax payer." - Just start by getting back the 37 billion wasted on a test and trace app that never worked, so the contract was not fulfilled and the money should come back, exactly like the billions wasted on PPE that either never arrived or wasn't fit for purpose when it finally arrived.
I love when government top officials are trying to persuade us they can't afford to help out as it their opinion it would just cost too much money. When it comes to wasting billions of pounds on something government believed it was the good but it turns out completely useless. when they were transferring huge amounts of money in form of business contracts to their peers it was alright. They pretended it never happened and when they were pushed hard enough they hid behind lame excuses. I think this is the time people need to get very vocal about it and if needs take to the streets. Enough is enough.
Bro our president gave the Taliban an unconditional surrender...!!! Do somthing
Test & trace! Where they paid £6K per day to each of an army of 'consultants' who did absolutely nothing. Yes! Get that money back!
Plus scrap HS2 (£100Billion) as it's only the rich who will be able to pay those crazy fares.
Then the deficit will look much better & then more help for the poorest is feasible.
Exactly dont forget the 70 billion pissed away on paying peiple not to work for 18 months
Track and no trace a survellence app
If a nurse on £35000 per year can't afford to eat then what hope is there for those earning less than that on minimum wage?
She must do her shopping at Harrods
😂😂😂, good lord, I pity this future!
Nurses earning 35 grand a year and she can’t afford food where is she living in Buckingham Palace In my opinion anyone earning 35 grand a year are not struggling unless they want to live in Buckingham Palace
People aren't stupid. When rich people get richer that is where all the money is going instead of where it actually belongs.
Sadly people are stupid because they VOTE for the CULT called Government that shafts them. Voting = consent. No voting = Government Cult collapse and Revolution.
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"Rich" people don't just keep their money in the bank. Elon Musk "worth" 200 billion, simply in shares of Tesla. Tesla employs 100,000 people. He can't even sell it all if he wanted to , as that would drive the share price lower, and he would end up with 50-60 billions at most. then he would need to pay taxes on it, and he is really left with "only" 20 billion. So yes, its better for everyone for him to keep that money in business.
There’s the answer then, go out there and get rich …get yourself sorted and get out of this mess… gonna give it a go
When a Tory says "we need to think of the Taxpayer" they mean their CEO mates, not people on salaries. Always remember that!
@fhweuenh not all
All ways remember ,labour tax workers to give to lazy sitting on back sides.
@fhweuenh being in politics as business man makes no sense for the long-term.
When a Socialist says "we need to think of the Taxpayer" they mean their union mates or friends on benefits, not people who actually believe they need to get out of bed and work for a living. Always remember that!
@@oldskoolrools3087 no I pay over a grand a month in tax . I would really like something for it.
But Tories give it to there pedo mates.
Both me and my wife work full time and earn less than 30 thousand annually before taxes in the retail sector. It's not just the public sector that is struggling.
Maybe it's me, but I haven't experienced any kind of change in my finances and I'm poor
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Question, as an American. That converts to $35.3k. Is a salary of 35k pound low, middle, or higher for the average UK citizen? I am curious because many people here make converted 21 pound an hour. Thanks!
I also work in retail and earn less then £14k a year. More than half my wage a month goes on rent alone after everything is paid I'm left with £80-200 depending on how many hours I've worked that month have no idea how I'm going to get through winter
@@djm2189 holy cow I would love to be making £21 per hour I'm on minimum wage which is £9.50 per hour
Nationalise Energy Companies
The Government needs to take back ownership of strategic energy assets. It needs to accept that the Free Market has failed the energy sector, that it is in the national interest to renationalise our energy assets. The Government must therefore renationalise all the UK energy assets.
They simply won't do it as is too beneficial for people
yes
This government definitely won't ... but Labour might 👍👍
Am on side with that, the government can get the the "business" of those businesses, all they like. As long as they stay out of ours 👍
Neoliberal's aren't going to do such a thing ever. Both sides of UK politics are in the back pockets of the bourgeoise.
I get more than 10 grand a year less than these workers and I work full time and weekend overtime and am in my overdraft every month and no savings. No holidays abroad and no takeaway or meals out etc. How are we supposed to live?
We aren't
Also, a lot of those striking are on less than 25k a year.
We should work together to elevate everyone. A rising tide lifts all boats. Don't let the elites divide and rule as they always do.
Question as an American, is 36k pound considered low, average, or slightly higher for the average UK citizen?? Thanks!
@@djm2189 minimum wage in uk is £9.50 an hour. 36k a year would be on the higher side and that's unaffordable. Most people are on half that.
A paye worker should be able to pay their utility bills from their gross salary, just like a business would from the gross.
I've never understood why that's not the case.
@@mertonsardeen2242 it's tax deductible for them
@@mertonsardeen2242 So because some careless idiot left a heater switch on it means it's all fine for that no doubt struggling business
Because everyone in the UK would need an accountant or be able to calculate their own tax. Something that would end up losing billions in revenue for the government as most people Inc myself would declare absolute minimum
Capitalism
Because then the exchequer would be getting less light 💡
Yesterday I watched a whole stream of videos of Mick Lynch being interviewed by the so called MSM.
Every one of them was completely repulsive. Mick Lynch came across as someone with real strength of character, calm, collected, and articulate. I don't know how he kept his composure.
I've signed up to Enough Is Enough, and just stopped watching any MSM, including BBC.
To see the way this man who clearly has a sense of dignity and integrity as a human being, was shouted and screamed at, constantly interrupted, by idiots literally foaming at the mouths, was truely disgusting.
Just remember, there are more of us than there are of them!
Why did they behave that way?
@@SamuelBlack84 Because they are content the way it is. All state they feel the plight many are enduring. When the very people they say they care about fight back workers
become the villains, militant or worse barons. The workers have came out their box become strikers and must be put back in box.
All fear people power or power from the people as all know it is a strong force however all workers have to stand together as one united together.
@@SamuelBlack84 The WEF own the UK government and the MSM. As conspiratorial as it sounds more people are looking into the WEF agenda 30, and the 4th industrial revolution. They fear the masses finding out the truth that our government and media do not really represent or work for us. I understand this sounds conspirorial but any one can look into the WEF and their anti human agenda. The escalation of energy bills the green levy, really means the eradication of the elderly and poor. We are the cabon they want to get rid of. Look at How to hack humans. Who klaus schwab is.
A week ago I cancelled my TV licence,I can't watch the bullshit anymore. It's a good feeling getting rid of that 'control'💚
“We are the many. They are the few.”
That nurse struggling on 35k a year She needs to try earning less than 20 a year 35k to me would change everything
This is so true and still, they interviewed people on +£35K a year. I’m a soldier and I get £20K a year, what should we say?
I don’t earn £35k year and I can still manage to live. I don’t understand how she is straggling.
This is what I don't understand. There's even people in these comments, stupid enough to admit that they earn close to 60 grand a year between them and their partner, and they claim they are struggling? What?
I'm a warehouse production operative, on about £1360 a month after tax, and i'm doing ok.
Wow I should marry a soldier then, I'd treat em real well. Converted i make 93.2k alone.
clearly they are not thinking of support workers and carers on minimum wage
It took Labour to bring the minimum wage in, the Tories are the party of the rich and big business why would they care.
or carers maybe in "private" homes in various situations and illnesses etc........these people are not part of the NHS or a care/nursing home..........so they have no training have to be great at various different jobs and only get maybe £67 a week.................
They always talk about people struggling on 35,000 most are on incredibly less. The average wage takes into consideration the highest paid as well if one person make 100,000 and three make 20,000 The average would be 35,000 that makes 2/3 Of people and 20,000
There are millions who are earning even less than 30k a year and who lacks Union representatives, who will fight for them who will help them? I'm sure they would love to earn 35k.
She is on LOADS. There are millions earning half what she does.
I have to agree i earn much less than that and I still get by
i was thinking the same thing, that's like almost 3 grand a month what the hell is she spending it on if she can't manage on that? i mean where does personal responsibility kick in?
@@antonichristian5845 35k is about 2200 after paying pension, NI and tax. Everyone has different circumstances for what the money might be needed for.
Tell em to unionise...
And just remember Liz Truss called British workers as lazy!
Well she is right they are . The standards have gone right down.
Over generalisation many workers have been having extra tasks added to their role with no reevaluation of wage for years as companies aim for lean structures
@@jameshutton3960 Yes I know I was employed by a pharmaceutical company who outsourced a small department and I was worked to death until I physically could not do the work no one could the doctor signed me off sick and guess what after 25 years doing that job the arseholes dismissed me on grounds of in capability!! When in reality they knew nothing about the job whatsoever. It’s the greedy corporate fat cats who want to make a profit from decent hard working folk .
@@spellbound4383 Not everyone fool. Trust u to judge everyone.
@@wilmaflinstone7650 who said I meant all
£35k and they can’t cope? Try working in the private sector then…
I'm on £14k per year and living pay check to check I can't save
MP's base pay has gone from approx 65K to 84K since 2012 - thats 2.8% a year every year for ten years. Plus their expenses have gone thro the roof and now average more than 200K per anum. We pay for them to get to work and we pay for their accomodation - even if they live down the road. We even pay for their Gin and Tonics for chrisakes !!! - the bars in the commons are subsidised by the tax payer. Time for change me thinks
Takin the piss.. yes change will happen.
its a disgrace considering the also get everything paid for by the tax payer. these skilled workers but live in London. My sister is a nurse and more tgan manages. she averages £33000 with overtime a year. I feel sorry for the minium wage staff they are gonna struggle even withthe little help they get
@Topper Rune No No there's no ignoring, Those who are brought forward for us to vote for are to blame just as much as the whole system behind them that none of us have a say in.
Wow I make more than an MP. Cool! Granted that's just their base pay, bet they get extras. My base pay converted to pounds is 93.2k. thought they'd make so much more.
@Topper Rune Well said. Evil only exists when good men do nothing, which includes continuing to vote for a corrupt, cult system called 'government' that has never served the good men and never will.
How about companies stop taking ridiculous profits at the expense of their employees who are the source of their wealth.
Exactly, no one speaks about greedy shareholders getting excited about being able to buy a bigger yacht than their peer, at the expense of their workforce. Instead people turn on their fellow workers who earn a little more than them.
I agree. Those at the top benefit whilst those at the bottom doing all the leg work get paid the minimum. It's disgusting! I grew up in the 1970's and remember all the strikes and power cuts. We used to have an emergency draw for candles and a box of matches. These days people will need to have an emergency cupboard with more than just candles and matches.
This is where the focus needs to be
Yeah ... but to be fair, many companies aren't taking ridiculous profits.
In fact, nowadays many aren't making any profit at all...
@@tobymaltby6036 Small businesses are not making huge profits but the big ones are.
"We are the party of low inflation."- Tories
Well that has well and truly been disproven now, hasn't it?
It's always highest under their rule.
Yip they're the party who routinely trash the economy and decimate entire communities. Unfortunately they have the backing of the majority of media convincing enough folk that it's the fault of a different government from days gone by, or migrants or benefit claimants. Will never change.
"Low taxation", surely? Inflation is the remit of the BoE.
Everything the Tories have ever said has been proven a lie.
The Tories have now run out of the last excuse for their flawed ideology!
I would love to be on £35,000
then unionise
Exactly. And that shake powder is well expensive.
@@joshnicholson2934 That’s what I thought.
I'm work in a glass factory on minimal wage. It's not just the public sector that struggle.
Katie (the nurse) should consult Tory MP, Lee Anderson (MP for Ashfield) who boasts about his local food bank, in Parliament, by forcing people to register for a budgeting course and a cookery course, so they can learn how to cook nutritious meals for 30 pence??? - or they won't get a food parcel. Lee Anderson claimed expenses of £204,891 last year.
He needs that money to supplement his basic diet of berries and water cress.
@@peterlangbridge4628 more like caviar & fine wine
@Richard T actually huel shakes are probably healthier than most meals. But very depressing to swing back shakes instead of tucking into real hot food.
I'm content with a pizza
It is the Conservative Govt. who have had the power and the policies for the past 12 years……not the unions or the workers……they are to blame for the lies of Brexit,the state of Britain.
Nothing to do with brexit, all to do with the stupid covid restrictions and pure greed from the top
Conservatives party was against brexit
@@mu6qy Boris was against Brexit?
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@@SakBoyyy the lad is a bit lost
No idea how Katie is struggling on £35k, must be in a lot of debt or have bad spending habits. Try living on £12k and then complain about struggling.
And carers are realy struggling but they are never given a thought when it comes to wages
3:19 +
£35,629 a year sounds like a rather poor salary - considering her work/education. John, Norway.
My heart bleeds 🙄 some of us are on minimum wage not 35 grand a year and bleeting, carrying pop and 25kg bags of sugar not standing around gassing half the time like the last hospital I was in or teachers hiding in the staff room drinking coffee and having a smoke.
Katie earns £35,629 per year
And is having to make milkshakes because times are hard.
I think we need to take a look at Katie's expenses.
Her home looks like a dump, so the money obviously does t go on interior design
Yeah something is definitely not adding up with her. She doesn’t need a pay rise she needs some financial education.
she certainly doesn't look like the type to be super responsible with her money...
I was wondering that myself. I'm also a band 6 NHS worker and definitely not struggling the way she is. Though, admittedly I do have a partner to help bills
Net income of around £2300 even with a £150K mortgage she shouldn't need to resort to having shakes
Inflation caused by greed at the top.
It's not all about public sector workers, they at least have a voice and are in the public eye on the front pages weekly. Meanwhile in the private childcare sector centres are closing down in droves, zero to no funding from gov. mass exodus of level-3 qualified staff that can now make more stacking shelfs than working in a nursery thanks to instantly low wages (sub 18k/annum) for the responsibility they tender with the government regulations and red tape strangling them. Oh, and these centres were MADE to stay open during COVID and staff were not allowed paid leave when they got it. I suspect the gov. funding is pouring into the CEO's.
The public sector workers are fine, most of them have more than enough
It tends to happen when the Tories are in power, people go on strike.
The RMT have not had a strike for 30 years,
@@johnrussell3961 the RMT were striking 6 years ago over the switch to driver only operated trains with ominous passenger safety claims.
That's false....they go on strike when Labour are in power....as they know Labour will roll over....
@@johnrussell3961 The Tories love voters with very short memories, RMT 6 years ago ring any bells.
Not that much power these days . Tories just change the rules .
So Liz thinks that we need to work harder. I can prove why we are financially struggling as a nation if anyone's interested?
I'd really enjoy watching old lizzie working her arse off for £9.50 an hour.. I'm sure she'd be incredibly pro active and meet the impossible demands of her company!
The public blaming the state for their poor choices?
Yes
@@tla2119 We don't make anything anymore. It's that simple.
We used to be an industry powerhouse. Now we only care about share prices. The problem with that is the share market is extremely temperamental.
Where is everything made nowadays?
China.
Who's the global powerhouse these days?
China.
@@BD-vu9bv Our economic philosophy in the West is neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is bailouts/subsudies/tax cuts/welfare for THE RICH, CORPORATIONS AND WALL-STREET, Late Stage Capitalism and austerity FOR THE REST OF US AND MAIN-STREET. Its a complete scam. They've rigged all neoliberal economies, democracies, governments and media in their favour and are slowly sucking the wealth from our nations and putting it into their off shore havens.
The free market no longer exists because of neoliberalism, corporations and Wall-Street dont play by the same ruled the rest of us have to abide by. Remember 2008? WALL-STREET got bailed out via our tax money and regular people were left to fail and lose their homes. This is why the mega corps are monopolising the market, because they enjoy corporate socialism, whilst the rest of us have to suffer through late stage capitalism. When they fail they get help. Thsts not free market capitalism
It is our oligarchs who sold off these industries to China, dont blame China for Western corruption. China just did what any other country in that position would do. The US and UK empire's are being run by legit criminals who do not care about the long term sustainability of our economies or nations. They only care about making as much money as they can as fast as they can. If these corporate monopolies are propped up by our tax money for any longer, we will end up with one world corporations and no democracies. Everyone warned of one world governments for so long they didn't realise it was a smoke screen. They dont want one world governments. They want rid of our governments which is why they undermine them from within. They want one world corporations aka King Gates and Co. Corporations are run like dictatorships, there's no democracy, just one CEO and shareholders making the decisions. We must avoid going down this dystopian path.
We're all being lied to en mass and scammed. Working classes aren't being represented globally by their corporate owned governments because these corporations plan on replacing the entire working class with automation in the next 20 years, everyone MUST research the coming 4th industrial revolution.
Here's a list of words to research. People in the western NEED to understand neoliberalism etc. People in the UK not understanding neoliberalism is the same as the Soviets not knowing the word communism!
Neoliberalism
Corporate feudalism
The 4th industrial revolution
Corporatism
They manage to manipulate everyone who doesn't understand neoliberalism
Why on earth is the fire service being called out for a ring?!
That call out probably cost more than if the person just went to a hospital...
Perhaps it's because it's cost effective to pay the fireman to do the removeal of the ring instead of tying up a paramedic or A+E nurse in the over loaded NHS.
Private sector wages are Also behind, and has been for a long time, so neither is the cause of inflation....
12 years so far of the Toff Tories...........
@@muttley1423 Remember it would be worse under Labour! and we have taking back control! in 50 years time probably after even more years of the Toff Tories! Great Britain will be back!!! no wonder Scotland still wants out of the union.
@@muttley1423 Me too.
It's absolutely disgusting that people are struggling so much and it continues to get worse
It’s banks they are the culprits! There is no money.
It'll get even worse.... This is just the start
I'm curious to see what would happen if the whole country collapses
@@SamuelBlack84 no it wont just suffer
being on 35k a year is a crisis... what!? how?
Only way I can justify their struggle is if they live in or very close to central London, nurses are still very much needed (or maybe she is bad with money and has lots of debts)
They may have more expensive rent or landlord may have put their rent up (has happened to me gone up by 14%), nurses also pay student loan back monthly which is a big chunk of money, they may live in London or more expensive city. Many factors…
@@Chadgigington they obviously live in london. News doesn't report anywhere else. Government nor media cares for the rest of the UK.
Lol... I WOULD love to be in their shoes... I earn 19500 a year, absolutely on the bones of my arse... I feed my daughter and dog, then with what is left goes into mine and my partners tummy!! I have had to set up payment plans with creditors, I have no choice but to cancel my energy direct debt in October because I just simply cannot afford 300 a month on gas and electricity... All of mine and my partners cash is gone, we have not had any leisure time for years... Earning 10 an hour should be illegal, NMW being 9.50 is demonic... NMW needs to be increased to at least 15 per hour... Otherwise we're all screwed
Worker....liz
Katie Is a fantastic example of a good person deserving of more respect and ultimately more pay. She's a better person than I am.
Liz truss wants her to work harder. This is who she thinks needs to graft harder.
@@TSINIproductions 😂 yeah how dare she not work hard enough Liz needs her tax money
Shes on 35 grand a year sounds more like she has money management problems then anything else.
She’s obviously going wrong somewhere though, earning £2106 take home pay per month, she should be living comfortably, i think she needs to do an income expenditure
@@tvrtvr6984 well said. finally someone spoke sensible stuff
most people shown in this video earn above 35000 GBP and that's more than enough for a single person to pay their essential bills and buy food
What about people on much less than the ones mentioned, or pensioners who are struggling to pay their bills and feed themselves. T
if u cant pay people a wage they can live on then it's broken.
@D C Things are expensive now, and rising. And wages have not risen accordingly, so that argument doesn't work.
@D C Not _everyone_ - people on 80k can cope with a pay freeze for a bit, people on 500k could cope on a pay cut
I'm no commie demanding everyone gets the same, but is a CEO really over 150 times more important than a nurse?
This problem with wages not being enough has been a problem for other countries for years its only now that people are really taking note because it's now touching the first world countries and they're having to struggle as bad now as the the thirdworlds.
It's crazy that all these other rich people just keep getting richer while the normal salary man and labour worker is struggling day by day.
Hold the rich people accountable, the government officials the oligarchs ALL OF THESE ENTITIES. Why aren't they investigating or regulating the CEOs!!!
It's so frustrating.
Inflation won't rise due to wages. It will rise due to not enough workers, and huge profits. Healthcare professionals aren't paid enough due to the amount of managers, and privateers profiting from it. All those private care agencies, all those care homes. Capitalism has been left to run havoc, rather than managerd to the benefit of all.
Enough is Enough
This winter is going to be a nightmare.
I like the cold
£30,000 + a year , I'm only £12,000 behind them ...
Try being a carer on 19000 a year
I’m really worried for the nurse in this report. 35k and struggling is mind boggling to me.. I’m lucky to earn a little more than that but, a few years ago, I was in 35, I could live very comfortably of that.
We are really doomed
35000????? i earn 25000
That "nurse" (if she is indeed one) must be a trojan horse they put in there.
That protein-shake thing is also such a blatantly silly thing to do... not real.
Exactly, I thought that would be a good wage.
@@kevinwong1090 I definitely couldn’t live on that, not the way my expenses have gone up
If she's on 35 and can't afford to live she's either, A: Living in london the solution to which is.... leave or B: Living way outside her means - eating meals she can't afford and generally living like she see's people living on instagram.
Mps should take a pay cut
Never happen
...and what about the MILLIONS of people on much lower wages than these, who can't just 'go on strike'? What are they supposed to do?
We need to make our voices heard in other ways. Together we are stronger and they know it. I've re negotiated my energy bill payments to a more manageable amount in the mean time..
My partner does security...worked the entire pandemic and earns 10,000 plus some less than these ppl
We shouldn't be angry at the professionals who earn more than us. That anger is miss directed and is exactly what 'THEY' want. To pit us all against each other. These firemen/women,teachers and nurses are not the problem. I've worked in the educ6sector dor a long time. Teachers earn their money, as do the support staff. Everyone works hard and has very little to show for it. It's disgraceful
@@sarahdrew5013 I am not 'angry at people who earn more' or questioning whether they deserve their wages. I pose a serious question: where is the highlight on people struggling to get by on 5, 10 or 15k less than these people?
@@kp361 These poor people are only mentioned in media when it degrades them. Like a bear on a chain dancing for food in the circus. The stigma of being poor and the class divide need to weaken or we shall be stuck in this mess of hatred and ignorance till our dying days, that for the meek, may come sooner rather than later this winter.
STAND TOGETHER IT’S NOW OR NEVER COMMUNITY UK!!
I'm afraid it's pull the ladder up Jack attitude,these days. Pall.
35k a year, she must have credit card debt or lavish holidays, I earned between 23 and 28k due to overtime and I felt I lived quite comfortably before I was made redundant. if I was earning 35k I'd have probably been able to save 600 a month, dont know what these people are doing with their money
Living thier lives obviously, rising prices are making things more expensive and that 35k pretty much small amount.
It makes me happy to know that the RMT have the picket line up and running and I hope that the nurses come out on strike or at least work to rule.
Momentum is growing and the Tories are being challenged, but we need another political party to step up and do the same. Unfortunately I don't have any trust for the Labour party but I know that Jeremy Corbyn would definitely be up for the job and hands down he's a better bet than Keir Starmer who I don't trust as I believe he's on the side of the billionaires ?
Vote reform Party. Stop supporting the Labour/tory power monopoly
Jeremy Corbyn 🤣🤣🤣
starmariods israelie handler would be so pissed at him if he does not support the tory.
Both Jeremy and kier are spineless underachievers.
@@andrewwilkins1707 Bozo the criminal clown 🤣🤣🤣
I’m not even earning that. - It’s not just private sector workers struggling. I’ve tried changing jobs a hundred times. No one is offering a decent wage.
How is she in debt on that wage? i earn more than 10k less and while struggling am not in huge debt.
Univeesity debts ...other responsebilities
@@mohamoudmohamoud3393 she still pockets 2k a month after that and taxes.
@@mohamoudmohamoud3393 that's only around 90 pounds a month, In reality she just mismanaged her money and most likely gamble from time to time as well as every other thing like drinking and smoking.
Huel is not cheaper than cooking a meal thats stupid :L
as much as i appreciate the struggle of these people, many many people are on signifcantly less money then these 35,000 is a very good wage to most who are earning over 10,000 less for example nursery nurses who earn around 16-17 thousand a year working full tiime....
How they can afford housing in London with 10,000 pounds a year?
2 more years until a new government ….. hopefully Labour get their act together and win on a platform that can help
Yes, Angela Raynor is working on a strategy now....she just needs some help with some of the spelling and grammar....LOL
@@oldskoolrools3087 ........and Diane Abacus. now there's 2 even worse than Dizzy Lizzy, the ill educated Comp girl
@@christophermaley6822 There's so many on Labour's benches to choose from....LOL
Two sides of the same coin. Red = blue
Don't worry Tories will not be in government for 2 years not with Liz Truss.
More to the point the people will put them out. Citizens will boot them out before end of this year..
Great unrest is on its way.
Plus Liz Truss 4th PM elected by 160 Torie members. 50 million not going to settle for that. Tick tock
35 grand a year! Some workers are on less than 15 grand a year, give them a raise first!
But a nurse has student loan debts and has trained for years. Someone on 15k likely hasn't... although I think both should have an increase.
then why don't them 15 grand a year workers go on strike too?
@@leeatkinson1582 She takes home 2k a month once student loans taxes and NI are taken into account.
@@tvrtvr6984 it's bot all though really: should be way more given the cost and hard work to achieve her education and training 💪 or else what is the point in trying to get an education and career? Same with teachers and doctors etc. They should be paid waaaaaay more than a person on 15k 🤷♂️ a 15k job will not require advanced qualifications (although there may be the odd one). And let's not forget that a professional on this kind of wage will pay approx 300 quid in student loan repayment, so more like 1700-1800 per month.
@@leeatkinson1582 its 2 grand after all taxes, basic pension, NI and student loans. She has a serious money management problem.
I would suggest a compromise of moderate wage increases of say 4-5% and a one time top up payment of an additional 5% to get people through the crisis. If this continues into next year, a similar arrangement might be required. To me this makes sense as companies and taxpayer are not on the hook for massive pay increases that they will have to bring forward permanently but keeps people from falling into real term poverty.
The government needs to address all of causes of inflation and recent reports suggest 65% of it is from corporate price increases and massive profits. Companies are taking advantage of the inflation and increasing their prices well above inflation for massive profits. Instead of expect the general populace to take it on the chin yet again, what are they do to reign in this massive price gouging by companies?
Kate has a great idea with the shakes as a substitute I'm using a mobility scooter. Can't leave home for shops in bad weather sometimes over two weeks at a time. Now trying to cook and freeze foods to keep me going these times as well as my shopping has doubled in price. I would love to know what shakes and how to make them that Kate uses that I can make from time to time especially when food is low at home and can't make shops due to bad weather. Kate should be getting a better pay because not only as a nurse but nurses duties have also doubled in tasks expected of them. I was not for nurses looking for pay rises before but in the last number of years nurses have to play more intensive roles with more and more work load thrown upon them and less staff to assist they are very deserving of a pay rise and they should be recognised and commended for the challenging role they play. Firefighters and other emergency services are a necessity and deserving of their recognition and should also get a pay rise. The gov should put a price cap on shops, fuel and energy suppliers in their unnecessary price rises and extortion from customers. Price hikes are necessary but not to the point of extortion. Just look at how much these people make over and above the costs these energy and shops should be taking some of the hits as well as customers
Everyone shown in this video earn 35 grand a year plus. What about the people such as myself who work minimum wage full time?? I'm absolutely drowning in debt too which is now getting worse.
This is not right..... at all in all theese videos there are people earning mroe than 30 000 per year.... Me as a retail worker I earn around 10-12K per year..... Now tell me something about crisis
GDP35,000-00 not enough. What do they spend on?
Hold on for a second. So the nurse is getting £35k a year and she cannot afford a proper meal, yet she buys a £2 protein shake, when she could've bought a whole meal in Lidl for £1.79? And what about people working in retail and many of them being paid less than £20k a year and working crazy shifts especially during national holidays etc? And because they are employed by a private company, they cannot expect any pay rise at all as they will be easily replaced by someone who will be paid even less?
I thought that.. if I was on over 30k I'd be pretty comfortable.
Depends on where she lives. In central london, £35k doesn't go far....
...in Cumbria she should get by.
Hmm does that 1.79 include the cost of energy if cooking etc
@@tobymaltby6036 I lived in South London for many years before moving East, and my salary at the time was £30k and I still managed to get by without having milkshakes as a meal replacement.
@@Andy-lu3bd or reheat in microwave at work as I did for many years. I lived on £20 per week for many years and on a salary £25k or less so know what it's like from personal experience. £35k is an okay salary even for London.
My union Unison is I believe going to ballot its members for a decent pay rise; I will definitely be voting to strike.
MP'S should take a pay cut as all they are good at is wasting taxpayers money!!
This Tory government is going to get a big wake up call.
Let's hope, but people have short memories. Tories will just dangle a carrot ...and follow like sheep.
That nurse earns 35k a year and says she is living off shakes as she can’t afford food? Get the f out of here. Whole families are trying to survive on little as 12-13k a year.
It’s terrible with everything going up we’re in 2022 and the wages are still crap
WHY DOES THE PENSIONERS NEVER GET INTERVIEWED OUR HEATING COSTS ARE MORE AS WE CANT GO TO WORK AND BE WARM AND OUR FOOD COSTS ARE THE SAME AS WORKING PEOPLE
Sweet heart the costs are the same as most work from home now thank god. No one pays for our pc and heating on all day
Single people never get interviewed
@@SamuelBlack84 true!!! That's me
Why don't they interview people who work full time with 10k a year especially care workers who go home to home and the care agency's don't pay their fuel
It's quite simple really - when the price of everything goes up, for whatever reason, it creates inflation in the economy - 'employees' would need a corresponding wage increase, if they are to avoid a drop in their living standard. To counter the cost of any increase in pay for their employees, employers / businesses would then raise prices still further, this is termed the wage-price inflation spiral. To curb this spiral, either employers / businesses would need to absorb the costs of the wage increase, without passing it on to their customers in higher prices (accept a reduced profit margin) or 'employees', many who have in recent years suffered pay cuts or very marginal pay-rises, would need to absorb a further reduction in the purchasing power of their wages (accept a reduced standard of living) The underlying question is: which of these groups can least afford to absorb this reduction in remuneration? Regretfully, it all simply boils down to the 'dreaded' rich / poor or the stupid 'envy' argument - i.e. which of these groups, In the present circumstances and in a fair, just and humanitarian society, can least afford to endure a further cut in their living standards. The wealthier employers / business owners, or the somewhat poorer 'employees' workers?
That's why we need to completely decouple work from needs.
@Topper Rune I just prefer things to be based on some verifiable facts than just a load of blah, blah, blah!
@Topper Rune Yes, but the rich that support the environment causes have huge swimming pools, huge houses 🏘 🏘 that need a lot heating🔥 and water 🚰and energy for cleaning....but they want that someone else does the sacrifice in order to save the planet. The facts is that most of the people agree on saving the planet but no one wants to reduce his / her standard of living ...especially the rich.💍💍💍
35k wages is 99 more than most of us
Hold they show a person on 35. 000 a year show someone on minimum wage
As much as I find myself supporting these people, all where on over 30k , think the highest was the nurse at 35 k but missed the teacher salary. And they are all struggling. But what if the millions and millions of our fellow countrymen on less than 20 k per year? If these hard working people are struggling and we back their cause , how are those on minimum wage coping and how do we help them? That’s where the real poverty is. So if the experts are right and a wage rise to the levels they want cause more inflation, the people on benefits and low incomes are really going to suffer. Not saying I know the answer but I don’t see one here
Middle-class families seem to get all the attention. What about us single people?
Come on. The wealthy dudes in power and can be tax avoiders couldn't care less about the low paid highly skilled workers
I just wish they would admit it
These aren't pay rises this is an insult to the workers the government get two grand pay rise and the people get nothing what b_ll sh_t is that
That first nurse doesnt have a money problem when it comes to her food, its working too many hours for their current pay.
Basicly the answer isnt more money its less hours for the same money and of course more would be nice.
She needs more time to cook for herself and learn new healthy cheap recipes.
Katie earnings are before tax, so it's not like she getting all that money, she pay NI, pension, student loan. When I was at uni 4 years ago, the nurses were always broke, especially as they are required to work a certain number of hours as part of a degree so couldn't work on top. I remember working with a newly qualified nurse who had a second job as a babysitter to make ends meet.
She's still coming out with over 2K per month after tax, NI, pension and student loan. If she can't live on that she is doing something wrong
she gets more then 2k a month, warehouse workers are making ends meet on 1.2 to 1.4 grand. She has a money managing issue from sounds of it.
@@tvrtvr6984 Exactly my point. I am a warehouse operative and come out with £1330 after tax, I survive okay and if I budget appropriately I have around £100-£150 left over at the end of the month
So do others who earns the average of even 25k they have to pay all the taxes out of that too.
@@ajtube6631Your missing the point, it's not great pay, not after working so many years. I earn £27k .I would love to have her pay but I still wouldn't be able to afford a home, looks like she has her own home. Might be able to run a car sometimes, might be able to put something in the savings. Not sure what the UK problem is with aspiring for more, working to dead is not the goal. My mother survived, my grandparents survived, my uncle and aunt still surviving, who wants to live like that? We are meant to living in a rich country which other people from other countries aspire to live in.
Teachers, firefighters and healthcare workers, absolutely! Rail workers…hmmm, I lived in the uk for years and have some very unpleasant memories of those entitled and arrogant jobsworths. Some of the most breathtaking acts of unprofessional behavior I’ve ever seen.
wait a minute...why is a firefighter cutting a ring off?
SHE LIKES A MAN IN A UNIFORM AND THE JEWELER JUST WEARS SMART CASUAL .
Living on shakes on 35k a year, what a load of tosh
NHS wages are pathetic
The country has been protesting for about 6 months now and yet the Tories are still ignoring us. We have to stand up to them and stop paying.
@Topper Rune that's nonsense. Governments are supposed to deliver upon the will of the people.
@@hohohohehehe6910 Except, they don't
I never vote
While the cost of living increase the government are spending over 2.5 billion pounds a year on housing illegal immigrants in hotels across the uk at the expense of the tax payer. This is illegal human trafficking made legal which helps transfer tax pounds into the pockets of the lose involved in human trafficking. Over the next year or so the bill for human trafficking will rise costing the uk tax payer closer to three billion pounds a year.
They're not illegal. They're asylum seekers and refugees but above all they're human beings first.
We won't put up with another crisis.The politicians need to listen or prepare for consequences.
worker did NOT caused a strike, it is RICH PEOPLE who caused it by GREED.
shes on over 35k a year but cant afford food? What on earth is she spending her money on?!
IF we Strike WE ALL DO IT TOGETHER!! All OF US ,I am not just talking about UK,but the world and yes Russians Included !!! This is a world problem NOT Just Here,Why because we all have no other CHOICE
But first...tell everyone on here a time in history when people stood together & didn't think selfishly about themselves?
It's never happened & will never happen!
If this was the case we'd never need the police or a military of any sort.
But fully agree with your sentiment!
I would prefer not to stand with the human race
wow!is that 35,000 before tax?no info about how the money is spent/thats nearly £3000 a month!!i dont get how it not possible to live more than a good life on that!!!/i dont get it-sorry
7 pound a pint in London... joke
Brutal! Here in Ontario, nurses, teachers, police and firefighters make a very good wage. These are occupations that should be paid well.
SCRAP THE TV LICENCE
This will save £3.8 Billion alone and help those in need of support.
SCRAP or REDUCE VAT
The VAT in the UK is the highest in Europe (20% for all Goods and Services) (Spain VAT is set to be reduced to 10%) Hence why buying products there is much lower in price than in the UK.
This alone will give £155.8 billion back to the consumer in the first year.
The special needs teacher has an expensive house, if £35,000 isn't enough to survive, pay less with a smaller house. I'm living on an apprenticeship wage of £12k a year, I don't know how people who earn £35,000+ are struggling, they must have lots of bad debts from bad spending habits.
They're whinging because they won't get their fifth holiday this year
TORIES OUT
That nurse , is being fleeced like all of us !
Why are interviewing rich people? 35K!
I sadly work from. I would love to be able to refuse to cross a picket line to support my fellow workers.
Sky do seem to be interviewing people who are not actually on a truly low salary - there are many more on lower pay who will be struggling far more and having to make even greater sacrifices. Of course we value public sector workers but there are no more hard done by than anyone else. We are all feeling the effects of inflation and it will get worse before it gets better. I agree with those that say there are just some who just don’t exercise sensible financial management and then complain about it! We all want more money and prices are obviously rising out of control but we do also have to take responsibility ourselves of what we earn and making sure that some is set aside for rainy days like these rather than living beyond our means in the good times and then expecting to be able to do the same in the bad times. Let’s just hope the bad times don’t last for too long!
That's weird, I'm looking at this and that's such low pay. Of course not lowest but 35k pounds is quite low. What's the average UK citizen wage?
@@djm2189 officially I think it is around £38,000 but I’d say mid £30k is average. Which is why I’d say £35k is a mid wage for full time workers and therefore shouldn’t be classed as low (except perhaps in central London).
@@jamfgh2589 i classify it as low because I expected more from the UK. Converted that's only $41.2k. Even that's low for the US. Another commentator stated the US pays more and has lower taxes than the UK. It's wild. I'm 27 and fortunately make £93.2k.
In sorry but they are earning £30k a year and they are struggling I'm on less and don't qualify for benefits and won't get help either please explain i live in England
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