Feathering Their Nests
Socialist Press1976 1976-09-22Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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Outside the TUC at Brighton: an official's Granada Ghi It was announced this week that Victor Feather, the late, unlamented General Secretary of the TUC, left an estate of £61,309. Workers will wonder where on earth he made SO much money.
Some idea of how certain trade union leaders are more than just managing to make ends meet were revealed in a recent edition of the News of the World.
KEMP
Socialist Press has already detailed the case of Leslie Kemp, tull time building trades officer of the IGWU who is retiring because of *ill health" , but who will be receiving on top of his pension over £7,700 per annum from his jobs' on various government boards.
The News of the World reports this but goes on to point out how much some other • trade union officials are receiving.
Of the 5,000 of what the paper calls QUANGO fobs on QuasiAutonomous National Government Organisations) 1,000 are divided between the 3,500 union officials in the country. Nearly half of the General Council of the TUC such jobs.
Examples. include Jack Jones, with sideline jobs with a total value 22,020; Garges ith of UCATT Scanion, £2,000; ( George who collects £2,000 for three days work a month and Boilermakers' leader Dan McGarvey Who picks up £1,250 plus a £25 a day attendance allowance Manpower Services Commission.
Alan Fisher of NUPE gets £1000 while Frank Chapple, EEPTU leader receives £1250 and Cyni Plant is paid £2300 a year plus £16 a day attendance money for the Community Relations Council.
Lawrence Daly said that he was CAR These are the people who decided to accept the £6 pay limit and now the 42% wage-cutting deal with Healey, and who daily lecture workers on the need for 'sacrifice' to restore profitability to private The fight for new leadership in the working class must also take up the need for all full time officials to be both elected and restricted in income to the average wage of the members they represent. HOT TH not education!
Fisher with NUPE lobb
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"quite happy as he was" with his £7,400 salary (plus union car, etc).