Unison and Clarkson

Former_Spice

martinjade wrote: »

He only said what the vast majority of the Country were thinking.

Have you seen the latest figures, over £12,000 public sector workers will retire on pensions of £100k per annum, and the average teacher's pension is £25k per annum.

A normal hard working individual would have to amass a total fund of over £500,000 to secure a £25,000 pa pension.

The Country cannot afford to subsidise the public sector workers pensions anymore, unless of course we want to end up like Greece.

Ridicouse figures, average teachers pay is only £25,000 and the most anyone can currently retire on is half that and that's assuming they started work as a teacher as a teenager or on their twentieth birthday.

Mallotum_X

Former_Spice wrote: »

Ridicouse figures, average teachers pay is only £25,000 and the most anyone can currently retire on is half that and that's assuming they started work as a teacher as a teenager or on their twentieth birthday.

The most anyone can achieve is £12,500 if they started work before the age of 20 as a teacher.

You do realise what you have just said is rather stupid?

BenjaG

I think Clarkson working on a hospital ward for a day would make great reality TV. Though I would not want to be a patient on that day...

lostinrates

BenjaG wrote: »

I think Clarkson working on a hospital ward for a day would make great reality TV. Though I would not want to be a patient on that day...

I've not really enjoyed being a patient under the care of soe of the nurses I have been either. The one who left me in a pool of my own vomit changing just the top sheet to teach me for not ringing the call bell earlier probably stands out as an example of someone not full of care and compassion. The fact is most public sectior workers are something reembling human, like the rest of us, and fail as often as the rest of us....whether its a nurse showing les than saintly care, or a teacher getting something wrong. Although I've et some super nurses too, I'm pretty sure the saints are (as elsewhere) i the minority. Most of them, like clarkson, are doing their jobs.

getmore4less

Joke or not the plan would backfire,

Have you seen those death in service benifits.

Really2

I find this part of the unison response odd.

"We would like to invite him to spend a day on a hospital ward, with one of our healthcare assistants. They do vital work caring for patients – cleaning up sick, bathing patients, and wiping bottoms. We think he has many of the personal skills necessary for the job."

Having a dig, dare I say it a joke.:eek:

But at the expense of people who actually do the job, their members????

Basically, you are only fit to wipe up sick and wipe bottoms, just like some of our members!!!!!!
I find that far more offensive to healthcare assistants than anything Clarkson said. As the Union guy as singled them out as a equal to their object of rage, and tried to put him down using is own members as an example?

Really odd.

grizzly1911

quantic wrote: »

How do those Union bosses sleep at night...

... on a bed made from solid gold probably.

Or many of the ministers and prime ministers, or many del boy traders in the City, gambling with the tax payers pot?.

wotsthat

Rubbish TV presenter makes rubbish joke.

Anyone would think it's coming up to Christmas and he's got a book to sell. Maybe Unison are on a commission.

I hope they do sack him. Maybe they could put something on in place of Top Gear - something about cars would make a change.

grizzly1911

wotsthat wrote: »

Rubbish TV presenter makes rubbish joke.

Anyone would think it's coming up to Christmas and he's got a book to sell. Maybe Unison are on a commission.

I hope they do sack him. Maybe they could put something on in place of Top Gear - something about cars would make a change.

:shhh: I think Santa is bringing me that.

Former_Spice

Mallotum_X wrote: »

The most anyone can achieve is £12,500 if they started work before the age of 20 as a teacher.

You do realise what you have just said is rather stupid?

It was sarcasm over the very silly figures that Martin came out with. It's very stupid for anyone to think that teachers can retire on a theoretical maximum half salary as they obviously cannot qualify as teachers till their early to mid twenties. That's one reason why the average pension for a teacher is way below £12,500 and nowhere the ridiculous figure of £25.000 that was quoted.