Have you seen the dividends and bonuses at Thames Water, or read the article posted here?
That’s a pretty amazing figure, how was that calculated?
Are you seriously arguing that that the Thames Water CEO was underpaid? They have been mismanaged extraordinarily. Their debts, losses, costs, service and environment records are so poor that nationalisation is being discussed. They have been paying dividends and bonuses throughout.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/10/thames-wate...
Is that the combined salaries of all union members?
This is a nonsense delineation in systems thinking. That railroad shareholders are also the public doesn't justify ripping them off.
Unions are beholden to the same impulses towards monopoly and rent-seeking as corporations. Swap members (i.e. sellers of labour) for shareholders (i.e. sellers of capital) and employers (i.e. buyers of labour) for customers (i.e. buyers of goods and services) and union management starts looking remarkably like its corporate analog, churning undifferentiated workers into a differentiated and thus premium block of labour as truly as a mill grinds forests into houses.
They are the public, just not the UK public!
Labor and capital aren't the same concept no matter how much you scramble them. One is powerful enough that the entire system is named after it.
Lets see the shareholders:
* French government
* Chinese government
* Australian banks
