Richie Ventons new blog entry DEMAND SCOTTISH £10 MINIMUM WAGE: demand the powers to transform our lives All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others, was the memorable satirical line in George Orwells Animal Farm Well the pigs with the biggest snouts in the trough here and now in capitalist Britain would agree. As millions of people work to remain poor, we have a new obscenity on parade: the UKs best-paid boss, Simon Peckham of Melrose engineering investment company, last year earned £31million! That means he grabbed 2,238 times as much as the annual wage of a worker on the so-called Living Wage of £7.65 an hour. Put another way, whereas it would take a worker a whole year on £7.65 an hour to earn £13,923, this chief executive only has to spend 49 minutes to get that much. The mind boggles! And your blood should be boiling, your resolve to fight poverty pay hardened by such examples of the worst levels of inequality ever recorded.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:02:25 +0000
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