Rate Rises v Union

[Paul Bond]

Hi all,

I just wondered how people felt the current trend of company produced rate rises will affect the ‘Join the RMT’ movement.

I’m not biased either way – just thought it might get a good debate going.

Keep smiling 😀

[low_ir]

I think an important factor in joining the RMT would be to negotiate a minimum pay deal. It would protect our future earnings and prevent cheap labour from taking over. Having the effect of pay rates going down rather than up. The divers managed it years ago, that’s one of the reason they are now doing ok.

I reckon it would be a hard task getting the required membership as most rov personnel are seem quite happy with the ‘I’m alright Jack’ philosophy.

[JB2]

Still cant work out yours and other people’s thought process on this one. You can really only discuss it on an anual salary stand point of which the only great quantity of people doing that are S club 7 so you want to go to http://www.OilBeefHooked.co.uk to see some professional whingeing and seriuos concerns rolled in one. If you take an arbitry figure of say 183 days

£250 p/d = £45750 p/a gross P/Tech
£350 p/d = £64050 p/a gross Sup

So any variation on your day rate equates to real money not dental/Med etc. If you dont pay tax then its a straight money issue which is why so many ex pats only work to day rate and not salary or risk it with the Tax man. Thats not an option with S club as they appear to have tax aggreements with just about every country going. So dont hold your breath about us all standing together as one it simply wont happen and would have no bearing on day raters of which I guess the world wide ratio would be 80%/20% split with agency included.
Oh by the way Im an RMT member purely for the legal backup as opposed to none when the shit hits the fan and I may be caught up in something unpleasant and just maybe they would help.

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