On Saturday 10 November there is a 24 hour strike by UNISON members who work for the Fremantle, the “not for profit” third sector nightmare (unless you are on its executive that is) care home company.Barnet UNISON are campaigning to stop vulnerable ex-local authority care workers having their wages and working conditions slashed by Fremantle. Not only are already lowly paid workers having their basic wages being cut by about 30% but their sickness pay, holidays and overtime rates have also been chopped.
Meet 12:00 on Saturday 10 November 2007 at Watling Park (nearest station Burnt Oak Station – Northern line). Then Rally at St Alphage Church, Playfield Road, Edgware, HA8
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How much is the head of Unison paid then?
I can't seem to see Dave Prentis's package on the Unison website? What were his earnings last year comrade? I guess it won't be anywhere near 100K? Unison is a democratic organisation so you should be able to find out and tell us...I bet the workers in your article would be interested to confirm that the head of Uniosn complaining about their boss's pay could confirm he was in the same pay bracket that you are complaining about?
Not too tricky to work this old canard out, anonymous. Here's the publically available returns to the Certification Officer: http://www.certoffice.org/links/pdf/736T_2006.pdf
Dave gets £89k (plus £22k in pension if you want to make it look bigger). Not bad, but not exactly an awful lot for someone who runs an organisation with 1,340,000 members, loads of different areas of business, and a turnover of £160,000,000. Richard Lambert gets a lot more for representing his 2,000-odd members ;)
Blimey John
Good stuff! I was wondering where I would find this info. Also, I would add that I would be very surprised if any UNISON staff in London were paid only £6 odd ph.
These tories should be ashamed of themselves. Why do they gloat over workers poverty?
Anonymous whoever you are you should be ashamed of yourself.
Older people services touch all of us sometime whether it be a mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, friend, wife,husband, grand parent ..........
Our society has a challenge in terms of provision for older people. Lowering standards and relying on cheap labour is not the right message for delivering services whether in the public or private sector.
I have spent the last 20 plus years working directly with service users and carers in Social Care in a variety of roles....I think perhaps I know a little about good quality services.
John Burgess Branch Secretary Barnet UNISON - Proud to be working with the Fremantle Care workers
Actually Barnet Unison you shouldn't presume to have a monopoly on helping others? What do you want a medal?
However the point is this...why is it acceptable for Dave Prentis to earn +110K yet its wrong for the head of a Fremantle to earn the same?
What with dealing with this strrike the head of Fremantle proably deserves a medal.
Also John...are the 1.3 million unison members Dave's employees....errrr no...so he doesn't head an organsiastion of 1.3m at all...probably nearer 120.
110K..no sorry anon, you missed off his fully expensed company car 124K...oh yes and this was for 2006..so you can add 3% on top of this total for this year....er... 130K...not too bad then...maybe the boss of Fremantle should apply for the job..its got to be a lot less hassle than the one he has got, and the Unison rank and file support this level of pay no problem
Shock horror folks Anon and Anon above have ESP!!!! – the 2nd anon comment was able to respond 30 minutes to the first comment before I had actually posted it!!!!!!
Methinks that Fremantle management are up to their usual sly dirty tricks! Why don’t they do the right thing and settle this dispute. Our Dave does not cut his low paid staff wages to pay for the SMT wages. That is the difference!
Fremantle – third sector nightmare!
Actually both anon comments were posted by the same anon....just expanding a bit on the theme.
You see a conspiracy at every corner....a bad boss at every turn, raeady to throw the frail hard working public sector worker out of his cottage...get a life!
Address yourself to the 130K Dave Prentis comparison..
Whatever I may think about General Secretaries salary he is not receiving that rather high sum of money while at the same time as cutting low paid workers wages by 30 or 40% throwing them in to poverty. Get with the programme anon and back the Freemantle workers.
Well done anon for admitting to being deceitful and lying about who you are. Obviously you must be a Cameron Tory.
But thank you for admitting to this. I assume that you are a bit tired and emotional at the mo.
The problem is that you are too emotional about these issues. Its all evil employers, and plots and scheming to deny the worker his rights? Get real.
So if the head of Fremantle was not "cutting workers pay" you would of course approve of his salary?
No..of course not...because he's not public sector employee...nor the head of a Unison...
double standards and the politics of envy prevail.
Actually here's another anon comment... like most British people I'm a big supporter of paying people a fair living wage.
I don't have an issue with the aims of your campaign - I just have an issue with the blinkers you wear in the way that you go about this. Instead why don't you have the headline to this piece - Head of Unison earns 130K a year whilst workers receive 6.00 per hour? But you have no issue with this? If this is truly the differential in pay one conclusion could be that the representation they had received so far has not been hugely successful?
Hi Anon
“The problem is that you are too emotional about these issues.....”
Sorry, I’m not actually a “politics of envy” (whatever that actually means) type of bloke. Personally I don’t have a problem with outstanding managers of large, complex, demanding organisations being paid a lot of dosh to run these organisations properly. Providing of course they pay their fair share of taxes that is. The problem I have is with organisations where the senior managers pay themselves vastly inflated and unjustified salaries while paying junior staff and sub-contractors a pittance. This is Freemantle. This is just wrong and I suspect you know it.
Hi Anon
“Actually here's another anon comment...”
Hang on a second; if you support a Fair living wage then you must support the Fremantle striker’s full stop? The living wage for London is I think at the moment £7.20 ph not £6.60 odd!
The real issue that I mentioned in the previous comment is not the headline figure of the CEO rather it is the difference that the head of Fremantle earns at 130k plus pa (including benefits) compared to those on the bottom. This is shameful.
It is utterly indefensible and dare I say immoral, for a “not for profit” company to pay its CEO such a vast salary which is, what, 13 or 14 times more than the lowest paid member of staff is paid. (BTW What do Fremantle new starters cleaners get?)
Comrade.
Here is my last contribution.
Unison is vehemently complaining about the pay of the head of Fremantle. The head of your union earns circa 130K a year - the head of Fremantle earns round about the same amount. One of them employs the workers, and the other one represents them. You claim this is outrageous for one person but entirely justifiable for the other. The truth is if you are earning 6.66 per hour then they are both fat cats.
Hi Anon
For reasons I have already explained you are comparing oranges and apples and completely missing the point. Disregarding for the moment that DP does not earn 130k, there are people who believe that no-one should be paid above the average wage for skilled workers.
This is what you appear to be arguing for and frankly I was not aware that this is Tory Party policy? If so then I think we should be told!
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