PARIE Royals lose out on pay
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PRESS The Royal Family have come out of the current pay round worse off than NUPE members-they have received a mere 8.9%!
The deal, negotiated without 8 strike, gives the Queen £174,000 extra to take her annual state income to £2,134, 00O.
Hor husband, who also 'earns' wages, from the state, gets an extra f4,500 to take his pay to £98,000 a year. Her mother gets £200,000, a rise of £25,000 and her sister £64,000, a rise of £5,000.
All in all, members of the Windsor family will get an extra £211,500 this year. making a now total of £2,609,200 or the equivalent of roughly 52,000 NUPE members' full wages for 3 40-hour weok.
None of the royals has received £1 on account of any comparability exercise, which surely could have been sat upcomparing their income with the Shah of Iran.
What? Only 8.9%.
PRESS representative of his colleagues, or a wrecker".
This started the attacks. Long articles printed warnings from one Leyland manager after another about the imminent collapse of the company.
Other articles claimed that the strike is aimed at finishing off the AUEW as well as Leyland.
Fraser has been presented as the cause of the strike, a ruthless man determinedly dragging unwilling skilled workers out on strike.
We have serious differences with Fraser (who has actually called off the strike umpteen times and who would no doubt settle for a reactionary wage structure) but he must be defended against these attacks.
By lying over the support the United Craft Organisation commands, the press has used a conscious campaign of propaganda to prevent the strike going ahead.