So you think you are underpaid?!!

[Ayr_Man]

Perhaps you dont realise how lucky and wealthy you ATCO'S are?


Russian Controllers Hungry For Better Pay

Dec 23, 2002

Low paid air traffic controllers in a Russian provincial city went on a hunger strike at the weekend in pursuit of a better wage deal.

The action, the second of its kind, was taken by around 30 controllers based in Omsk, Siberia on Sunday but flights were reported to have been unaffected.

On Saturday, the Russian controllers union rejected a 15 percent wage increase and called on their members in half the Russian regions to take action. The controllers had demanded a 30 percent rise on their monthly salary of around USD$470.

Under Russian law, the controllers are not allowed to stop work, but can take other action. Earlier this month several hundred of them refused food but continued to operate.

The cost of living in oil-rich Siberia has been climbing and public employees have been left far behind in the pay league.

[Findo]

Not sure why you pick out the ATCOs for comparison Ayr Man. If you are in employment then I suspect you and 200 million others in the West are rich by comparison to their $470 a month salary.

[roger]

Aramark must provide the catering to Russian Air Traffic Control establishments, hence the mix up.
They are actually hungry for better food.

I hear where you are coming from comrades.

roger

[prospero]

Luxury. We used to dream o' refusin' food and 470 dollars a month....

Fill in the rest ad infinitum. There is always somebody worse off than you, and always somebody much better off.

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

Long ago, before the advent of the wheel, overtime and working on rest days, just about the first Chinese aeroplane to land at Heathrow arrived with a government delegation... I think it was an IL-62. The crew visited ATC - 4 or 5 blokes and couple of girls.. all dressed in the same grey suits with no badges of rank. They were extremely nice and appeared quite contented. We learned that the Captain was on £13 per month... around that time his opposite numbers over here were on about 200 times that.. and who do you imagine were the ones who moaned the most?