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Birmingham City Council and the joint trade unions have reached an agreement to settle equal pay claims brought mainly by female employees who missed out on bonuses.
Thanks for that Phoenix. It's actually a completely different thing but I hadn't seen that case, so thanks for it. I did a thread on 'equal pay for work of equal value' last October after I was contacted by a trade unionist friend who was outraged at this new move. He said the Unions are so full of Feminist men and women that they straigh away caved in to this United Nations attack on lower paid male workers.
In the case of Birmingham City Council, care assistants, cooks and cleaners were on the same pay grade as bin men, grave diggers and street sweepers. However, the more difficult and dangerous jobs that require working in the rain, and which require a lot more flexibility and cooperation with the environment and public at unsociable hours are done by men because women CHOOSE to do the easier jobs. The jobs that attract a bonus for extra hard work are therefore the ones chosen by men. Women are free to work as bin men where they can get gouged with glass, bitten by dogs, crushed by the truck or cars but they instead choose to work more sociable and safer hours. But now, thanks to 'equality', they can work sociable hours in nice dry, safe, warm conditions and get the same bonus as men who break their balls.
It’s estimated the cost of this to Birmingham City Council will be £3 billion with the average payout to the cleaning ladies being £134,000. This will be passed on to the people of Birmingham in higher council charges. In the long run it will men councils will be unable to pay workers doing hazardous jobs a bonus and productivity will fall. The women will be back to where they were before and the men will lose the hard won bonuses they fought for down the years. Well done Feminism, the workhorse of the global elite.