London firemens’ strike.

@thin ice wrote:

@melody wrote:

I am all in favour of workers striking for their rights, and I appreciate the whole point that on November the 5th such strikes would have a huge impact and people might actually take heed and listen to the plight of the fire brigade, but at the same time I wonder how fire personel who join the fire brigade with a sense of duty and passion for saving and promoting life could begin to consider leaving areas without their skills on the busiest night of the year for their services? Are they admirable or irresponsible?

nope just greedy
they join because mostly its cushy and the pension is good and have free time to do other work

It’s the nature of the job Thin….if it was that cushty how comes every Tom Diick and Harry aren’t firemen? (although we have loads in jc, so yes they have loads of free time to chat ) :lol:
I know a few firemen and yes they have second jobs. Why shouldn’t they? If they have enough hours spare to do so? They work the hours they are suppose to firefighting. Most of us think we are overworked and underpaid. Myself included!! And I pay my own wages lol

I just researched this and the average firefighter gets 21K a year and works a 42 hour pw shift, on this basis it works out that they are paid £9.60 per hour… I wouldn’t risk my life for that money. Who can blame them if they subsidise their income with other jobs. With average house prices at 7 or 8 times their salary it’s no wonder!