Unions seek rise in minimum wage

Get Dai220 elected he is the only one thats talking sence.Keep increasing min wage completly price us out of the market. All big business is going to low labour economies and we are just increasing wages whilst this is happening where isthe logic. We have no motor industry no washing machine manufacturers TV manufactures just small business and the banks and we know what the banks hav done Its why we have not come ot of reccesion no manufacturing.

i agree that increasing national minimum wage wont make much diffrence to the worker raiseing the tax allowance would make more sense as for people with degrees only earning 11 pound an hour maybe thats the maximum they can earn from their chosen degrees there are tradesmen who have worked through 3,4,5 year apprenticeships who get far less an hour

i agree with the poster who said raise the tax allowance for the lower paid rather than giving them a wage rise . by giving the workers a pay rise it maybe only means a few pound in there pocket as the govenment will take more tax from there pay as for people with degrees only earning 11 pound an hour maybe thats all there degrees allow them to earn there are tradesmen in this country who get far less than that and they have sat 3,4,5 year apprenticeships

PhilD seems to be living in a different age. Where in Britain is much made these days? Watch t.v.? Made abroad. I could write a tedious list. Politically, the 2 main parties have a lot to answer for in allowing British industry to go down the plughole - though I wouldn't for one second say that workers and management were also to blame in many cases.

Dai220 is right. Put more people out of Income Tax & National Insurance liability - that's the way forward, not just putting a few bob on the minimum wage.

A friend of mine with FOUR university degrees is currently working for just under £11 an hour. What incentive is there for anyone to study or try and advance themselves if they're not going to earn substantially more than those who can't be bothered? In real terms, most people's wages have barely moved over the last couple of years (except downwards!)

The min wage is not £5.80 to employ some one on basic min wage taking into consideration 28 days holiday pay that got to be calculated in the wage cost also what about Emploers NI it all equates to £7,54 per hr to be charge out . I have always said if it a Min Wage why is it taxed. The unions should be fighting the goverment to increase the tax allowance on the low paid not just keep increasing wages for small business that are the life blood of our future and are struggling to compete, we cannot continue to trade knowing our wage agreement is fixed by the goverment irresptive of how the business can pay it. There are more small business like myself that have just had enough of being dictated to we no longer go bust we just give up and just shut down never to be replaced. If these union people are so good just start up a small business themselves and employ people they would have a different refection on thing we are not all making thousands of pounds. Just Making a wage and employing

If the minimum wage is going to be £6 then the skilled wage for hourly paid should be £15 minimum. Unions should be given they're powers back and britain should not be part of europe and we all should be given british passports and the country then will be a better place to live- BRITISH JOBS FOR BRITISH WORKERS , and exclude goods from low paid countries to stop the fatcat greedy employers benefiting from poverty stricken countries.

I am an employer of 100+ staff and with minimum wage increasing and our clients trying to squeexe their prices down means it is not financially viable. Yes it will help the workers but does anyone think about the employers who have to pay these wages........I don't think so.

It is right that trade unions campaign for the low paid and workers in general. However, companies that can relocate to other parts of the world will do so to places like China where pay and conditions are far inferior to UK. To combat cheap improts, the government should put an import tax to help raise the costs of foreign goods.