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I have watched with incredulity the BBC reporter Louisa Baldini interview a member of CC. She claimed a) salary of £11k pa after 11 years, b) no sick pay, c) no holiday pay and that not all allowances were generous eg BUH, £70 for 2 days. Is Baldini gullible or was she instructed by her editor not to challenge this statement.
My take is that the CC in question is on a post 1997 contract and that she is part time. Her claim regarding sick/holiday pay is plain wrong and that meal per diems reflect the costs at destination. Thus BUH would compare unfavourably with say GVA but her money there would go a lot further.
To cap it all Baldini expressed empathy that she had come straight from her flight to be with colleagues on the picket line at Hatton X. Big deal, she probably nightstopped somewhere in Europe and operated one sector home to LHR. Hardly a hard days work by even CC standards on SH.
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