My intention wasn't to get into a TG1 versus the rest argument. I was just wandering what qualifications these faceless people have to decide who gets paid what level? It seems to me that all airmen should get paid the same level and then get specific trade pay on top. I mean why should the movers get crew pay when they don't even fly that much or have an airborne role? No, I don't want a mover bashing session either.
Why do all Officers get the same basic pay?
With all this AFPRB malarkey divvying up this pot we get the absurd anomalies of striking firemen being covered by service personnel on a fraction of the firemen's pay rates, with no overtime payments!!!!!! Then there are the bus drivers being paid £25,000 a year while all of the drivers in Iraq or Afghanistan get half that. Civvy police recruits, who admittedly volunteer for a dangerous job get paid twice the rate of servicemen and women who are being sent abroad repeatedly, many facing daily attacks by snipers and suicide bombers. No wonder personnel are leaving the forces in ther droves.
Last edited by detonate; 4th December 2008 at 11:02.