“We can’t afford more than a 3% raise guys – it’s just the highly competitive market we’re in”
This guy probably.
Great news that such pay increases are being rolled out to all employees at Birmingham Airport.
Right? Right?
Who’s that laughging at the back?
Because (A) he’s worth it, (B) fuck you, common people.
Tories lining up to tell this guy he has to have a pay cut to keep inflation low in 3…2…1… oh sorry I forgot this Tory attack line only applies to the plebs not people on six figure salaries.
But giving public sector workers a reasonable pay rise will lead to inflation… or something.
>Birmingham Airport said it hoped to be back to full staffing levels by August, and explained: “We pay our senior management in line with market rates.”
>Heathrow’s chief executive has received an annual salary increase of 85% to almost £1.5m a year, and the boss at Manchester Airport Group had a pay rise of 25% to £2.5m.
>Mr McNicholas, who also sits on Coventry City Council, described Mr Barton as “a very dynamic person, full of great ideas” and as “someone absolutely perfect for Birmingham Airport”.
>He said: “It is paying the appropriate rate and while it may seem high for many, many people because of the current circumstance, we’ve also got to look to the future and ensure we have the right person in the post.”
Always got to love the “everyone else is doing it!” excuse..
CEOof companies are taking the money in all companies and doing a runner. Tax evasion all over the place and pay rises for the top dogs
I bet they kept it below 50% “so it won’t look excessive”…
Posted a loss in their last accounts. He himself said they would have closed without public money. Presided over a massive decline in service, massive job cuts and tens of millions of pounds lost. First time I’ve ever seen an airport security queue go round a multistory carpark. So obviously got a pay rise.
These stories are perfect for ensuring we end up with a general strike.
400k to 600k at a time when you’re not even paying people a 1k increase in salary is just so amazingly stupid at this point in time and how these companies think they can keep getting away with it is baffling.
I love they say it’s appropriate for the person’s expertise. I don’t care if the going rate is 600k for that job but you can’t then turn to your staff and tell them their expertise is not worth more than 1% more.
This is going to get spicy.
Well, with all the staff shortages they must have had a bit of spare money in the wage budget that needed spending.
Pay rise should be standard across the company. With certain individuals allowed to get no more than double the lowest paid percentage pay rise given, so you can still reward good work / great results.
So, if want to pay your CEO 49% because profits are flying high, fine, but everyone else get 25% because you didn’t do it in your own.
It has become an ugly feature of life in the UK that sees C-suite level execs rinsing the companies they are responsible for. The same can be said of those at the top level in politics and local government, health and education trusts. Basically, the country is run by greedy bastards that have no concern for the health and well-being of their employees. There is a growing chasm between the haves and have-nots that reminds me of late-stage Soviet Russia; people queuing for bread whilst the Politburo and their acolytes lived like kings by comparison. Make of that what you will.
So how do we actually go about a general strike? It seriously needs to happen at this point, across as many industries as possible
Blody hell, now I can perfectly sympathise with strikers
General folks earning 30k and struggling to buy food -> Can’t match inflation
This asshole -> half a mil a year and he’s not even competent at his job.
This pretty much sums everything going on at the minute. No money for the working class but plenty for executives. Remember we out number the lords and masters
Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the rest of us
Woah woah surely this is going to cause some kind of inflation price spiral right?
Hey, come on guys. It’s not his fault he’s worked harder than all of us all his life to get such a good job.
They said they pay executive staff market rates, which necessitated a 49% pay rise.
So, one would assume other staff are also potentially due a large pay rise to ensure they meet market rates, right?
Also in the same article, but oddly not the headline:
“Heathrow’s chief executive has received an annual salary increase of **85%** to almost **£1.5m** a *year*, and the boss at Manchester Airport Group had a pay rise of **25%** to **£2.5m.**”
This is what happened when I flew from BHX 3 weeks ago:
– The airline asked us to show up 3 hours early because of extra Covid measures (there were none)
– the airline didn’t open the check-in desk until 2 hours before the departure time
– waited in the longest queue I’ve seen in BHX in a packed, hot room
– passengers of many flights were asked to skip the queue and go for the security check
– then we were asked to skip the queue to go for our security check
– made it through the security check and had to run to catch my flight
This guy definitely deserves a raise.
On the upside, there’s a nice walkway from the car park to the airport and there’s a 30 mins free car park which I think is rare for airports.
PS: not sure if the airline not opening the check-in is the fault of the airline or the airport .
49 fucking percent. I’ve had a 2% pay rise in 11 years. 2 fucking percent. The wage inequality here is absolutely fucking staggering. I dont even know this guy and I hate him.
People like this need to be purged from positions of power.
A few months ago I was feeling quite listless and despairing with everything that’s going on. These days I’m really really angry. I hope there are others as angry as me. The moment my cohort say they’re striking I’ll be joining them. Besides we’ve got the agency as a safety net now! Nobody can say NHS workers are abandoning patients now because those excellent workers from the agencies will staff the wards. And there will definitely be absolutely no problems that arise from that! /s
Everyone call their bluff. At the same time. Think they’ve got enough agency to cover all essential workers? Retail, hospitality, healthcare, social care, transport and any other essential service you can think of should all down tools simultaneously. They called us essential. Clapped for us. Some of our workers gave their lives in service. And this is how we get treated? Get to fuck!
He got a 50% pay rise but we can’t afford to give workers *even* 5% to match inflation. What a fucking joke…
My dad who works there thinks a strike is coming. This has angered staff beyond belief and they have been in touch with Unite.
>airport board member John McNicholas said it was “paying the appropriate rate”
Here in lies the reason executive pay has skyrocketed recently. Remuneration consultants tell the board what other companies are paying, so of course they have to match that amount or even beat it. This results in a continuous uptrend in pay that is so detached from performance that it just becomes the base pay for any executive regardless of merit, qualification or performance.
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“We can’t afford more than a 3% raise guys – it’s just the highly competitive market we’re in”
This guy probably.
Great news that such pay increases are being rolled out to all employees at Birmingham Airport.
Right? Right?
Who’s that laughging at the back?
Because (A) he’s worth it, (B) fuck you, common people.
Tories lining up to tell this guy he has to have a pay cut to keep inflation low in 3…2…1… oh sorry I forgot this Tory attack line only applies to the plebs not people on six figure salaries.
But giving public sector workers a reasonable pay rise will lead to inflation… or something.
>Birmingham Airport said it hoped to be back to full staffing levels by August, and explained: “We pay our senior management in line with market rates.”
>Heathrow’s chief executive has received an annual salary increase of 85% to almost £1.5m a year, and the boss at Manchester Airport Group had a pay rise of 25% to £2.5m.
>Mr McNicholas, who also sits on Coventry City Council, described Mr Barton as “a very dynamic person, full of great ideas” and as “someone absolutely perfect for Birmingham Airport”.
>He said: “It is paying the appropriate rate and while it may seem high for many, many people because of the current circumstance, we’ve also got to look to the future and ensure we have the right person in the post.”
Always got to love the “everyone else is doing it!” excuse..
CEOof companies are taking the money in all companies and doing a runner. Tax evasion all over the place and pay rises for the top dogs
I bet they kept it below 50% “so it won’t look excessive”…
Posted a loss in their last accounts. He himself said they would have closed without public money. Presided over a massive decline in service, massive job cuts and tens of millions of pounds lost. First time I’ve ever seen an airport security queue go round a multistory carpark. So obviously got a pay rise.
These stories are perfect for ensuring we end up with a general strike.
400k to 600k at a time when you’re not even paying people a 1k increase in salary is just so amazingly stupid at this point in time and how these companies think they can keep getting away with it is baffling.
I love they say it’s appropriate for the person’s expertise. I don’t care if the going rate is 600k for that job but you can’t then turn to your staff and tell them their expertise is not worth more than 1% more.
This is going to get spicy.
Well, with all the staff shortages they must have had a bit of spare money in the wage budget that needed spending.
Pay rise should be standard across the company. With certain individuals allowed to get no more than double the lowest paid percentage pay rise given, so you can still reward good work / great results.
So, if want to pay your CEO 49% because profits are flying high, fine, but everyone else get 25% because you didn’t do it in your own.
It has become an ugly feature of life in the UK that sees C-suite level execs rinsing the companies they are responsible for. The same can be said of those at the top level in politics and local government, health and education trusts. Basically, the country is run by greedy bastards that have no concern for the health and well-being of their employees. There is a growing chasm between the haves and have-nots that reminds me of late-stage Soviet Russia; people queuing for bread whilst the Politburo and their acolytes lived like kings by comparison. Make of that what you will.
So how do we actually go about a general strike? It seriously needs to happen at this point, across as many industries as possible
Blody hell, now I can perfectly sympathise with strikers
General folks earning 30k and struggling to buy food -> Can’t match inflation
This asshole -> half a mil a year and he’s not even competent at his job.
This pretty much sums everything going on at the minute. No money for the working class but plenty for executives. Remember we out number the lords and masters
Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the rest of us
Woah woah surely this is going to cause some kind of inflation price spiral right?
Hey, come on guys. It’s not his fault he’s worked harder than all of us all his life to get such a good job.
They said they pay executive staff market rates, which necessitated a 49% pay rise.
So, one would assume other staff are also potentially due a large pay rise to ensure they meet market rates, right?
Also in the same article, but oddly not the headline:
“Heathrow’s chief executive has received an annual salary increase of **85%** to almost **£1.5m** a *year*, and the boss at Manchester Airport Group had a pay rise of **25%** to **£2.5m.**”
This is what happened when I flew from BHX 3 weeks ago:
– The airline asked us to show up 3 hours early because of extra Covid measures (there were none)
– the airline didn’t open the check-in desk until 2 hours before the departure time
– waited in the longest queue I’ve seen in BHX in a packed, hot room
– passengers of many flights were asked to skip the queue and go for the security check
– then we were asked to skip the queue to go for our security check
– made it through the security check and had to run to catch my flight
This guy definitely deserves a raise.
On the upside, there’s a nice walkway from the car park to the airport and there’s a 30 mins free car park which I think is rare for airports.
PS: not sure if the airline not opening the check-in is the fault of the airline or the airport .
49 fucking percent. I’ve had a 2% pay rise in 11 years. 2 fucking percent. The wage inequality here is absolutely fucking staggering. I dont even know this guy and I hate him.
People like this need to be purged from positions of power.
A few months ago I was feeling quite listless and despairing with everything that’s going on. These days I’m really really angry. I hope there are others as angry as me. The moment my cohort say they’re striking I’ll be joining them. Besides we’ve got the agency as a safety net now! Nobody can say NHS workers are abandoning patients now because those excellent workers from the agencies will staff the wards. And there will definitely be absolutely no problems that arise from that! /s
Everyone call their bluff. At the same time. Think they’ve got enough agency to cover all essential workers? Retail, hospitality, healthcare, social care, transport and any other essential service you can think of should all down tools simultaneously. They called us essential. Clapped for us. Some of our workers gave their lives in service. And this is how we get treated? Get to fuck!
He got a 50% pay rise but we can’t afford to give workers *even* 5% to match inflation. What a fucking joke…
My dad who works there thinks a strike is coming. This has angered staff beyond belief and they have been in touch with Unite.
>airport board member John McNicholas said it was “paying the appropriate rate”
Here in lies the reason executive pay has skyrocketed recently. Remuneration consultants tell the board what other companies are paying, so of course they have to match that amount or even beat it. This results in a continuous uptrend in pay that is so detached from performance that it just becomes the base pay for any executive regardless of merit, qualification or performance.