Fujitsu raises UK minimum wage to £14k Fujitsu has agreed to up its minimum wage for its British workers following sustained pressure from union Unite. The Japanese corporate put in place a £12,000 base salary in 2010 after negotiating with the union and agreed to review this annually. The union said it was pushing for Fujitsu to raise the threshold to £15,000 to …
That sounds about right. I usually hear of union bosses getting around £120k ish. You also have to take in to account a lot of them get other perks, like a big house to rent (owned by the union) for a nominal fee (£1 a year).
It might seem a bit over the top, but if you've got a good head then he should be looking after you.
And what does the Sun say about Barclays, and the other former "masters of the Universe" who are far more responsible for the pathetic plight of the employees and former employees of UK plc (including Fujitsu) than McCluskey ever was?
Even the BBC, even with the Chairman of Barclays (Marcus Agius) on the BBC Board to "maintain balance" with the Board's trade union reps (actually there isn't one), is finally having to admit that all is not well around the City trough.
Wake up, ignore the divide and rule, there's only one common enemy in this picture, and as this week's UK news shows, it ain't the working man's democratically elected representatives.
This is the private sector, if they are any good they won't need unions because they can go and get a better paid job elsewhere. If they're not good enough to do that they probably don't deserve even the pittance they're getting now.
When will people wake up to the fact that while capitalism and socialism have their faults we are sitting in the middle with the worst bits of both.
What has the fact that they are in the private sector got to do with anything? There have been unions in private sector companies for years - frequently welcomed there, as it's easier for the management to deal with union reps than it is to deal with all the people individually.
And where, exactly, are these "better paid jobs"? Noticed the recent unemployment figures? They are not ALL workshy scroungers, you know.
Agree with your second paragraph.
That first one though, I don't even know where to start and I'm not even going to try. All I can say is you appear to be living a rather fortunate life and are blinkered to the hardships many people in this and other countries go through just earning a living.
Theres a lot of unemployed IT people out there at the moment so its not unlikely that sometimes its lack of choice.
Worked there myself for about 4 weeks (temp 1st level support), that was before the economy went wrong, seemed to me most of the staff on that wage were just getting started in IT so didn't have enough experience even if they knew there way around systems to be able to strike out for higher paying jobs yet.
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