Fat Cat Thursday

By lunch time (or dinner time if you're up North) today, the UK's tp bosses will already have earned the same as a typical UK worker will all year (according to The High Pay Centre, and the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development). It's the third working day of the year! That's absolutely scandalous.

Big corporations are not going to volunteer to rein themselves in - why would they? They're making out like bandits. Of course, there will be the odd bit of lip service from corporate giants or the government, but any promises are underminded by the corporate bosses raking in well over a hundred times the average worker’s pay.

This Christmas we ran the 'We Care at Christmas' social media campaign to show the fantastic, front line work care workers do over the festive season, many missing out on Christmas at home to care for other people's relatives, or those who don't have anyone else to support them. No one on this planet can tell me that boardroom bosses are worth 100 times our care workers.

Union members by earn more than non-unionised workers, that's why is hugely important that we all get out there and encourage friends, neighbours and colleagues to join our union - let's make it a New Year's Resolution - but it's also important that we campaign to change the system as it is. The economy is not working for the vast majority of people, it's great to hear the Labour Party being vocal about that, not just tinkering around the edges. Jeremy Corbyn's political agenda could bring huge change for working people, we'll be campaigning for real change through politics this year so in years to come, we're not marking Fat Cat Thursday!

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