Quote Originally Posted by Trefor View Post
I suggest we start with union and charity bosses. Union bosses seem to be the ultimate fat-cats, currently disturbing the lives of many people with various rail strikes (I support the train drivers but I don't agree with the strikes on Southern or planned for Eurostar - which will hit holidaymakers). I think politicians are generally paid the right amount (esp if you consider their pension which is probably too much).

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/582...ty-Olive-Cooke

(OK, so its the Express, but I have seen many articles on this)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...interview.html
You can hardly call someone earning 150k a year a fat cat

Fat cats are these earning an average of 5.5 MILLION a year

http://highpaycentre.org/pubs/10-pay...atll-do-nicely

As for the southern dispute its all about train operating companies fighting each other and overpaying the government to run a franchise and then looks of ways to save money

Single manned trains are all fine until something goes wrong and then you have 1 person trying to deal with over a 1000 passengers = making safety announcements putting down emergency protection for the train and trying to evacuate the train all at the same time
By reducing the guards role to an non safety critical onboard ticket seller he cant help with any of the above

According to our well informed press its just about who opens the doors

The Eurostar dispute goes back many years and the RMT are just making sure that Eurostar sticks to its promises it made many years ago