36K is a lot of money by world standards and is certainly above the UK annual average.
Its

all money for Tower/APP in that part of the country, unless you think ATCO's should be just making the national average?
Are you suggesting UK ATC go on strike unreasonably? Are you confusing the legal requirements of SRATCOH with pig headedness? Did you actually engage any brain cells before you wrote the above statement?
Scratcoh? thats that tea break thing we controllers use when we're being difficult isn't it