Quote; "We are all a team, and it is terrible that our colleagues in other departments aren't unionised. I don't understand why that is."
Probably because not all of us feel the need to have some faceless rep representing us and coming up with deals that haven't consulted us individually on. Personally if any company does not pay me the going rate........I'll leave. No matter what deal the union comes up with in negotiation it isn't going to please everybody.
Can't really comment on your levels of pay as I don't keep an eye on CC pay around the industry. There has been a few comments about route allowances though and having seen the new scales I'd say your doing rather well. Most places seem to be around the GBP100 - 120p/n. This is considerably more than the rest of us get when travelling on company business. I cannot believe that you cannot survive an overnight stop on that level of expenses, which of course is meant for meals and small out of pocket expenses only.