The Post revealed last week that Swansea councillors are being paid over a £1000 a month for the privilege of representing their constituents and it has rightly left a lot of people angry.
Ronnie Job, Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidate in the forthcoming Uplands by-election said,
"The
lowest paid councillors are getting over £1,000 a month. That's £1,000 a
council meeting (£2,000 a meeting for those with poorer attendance records).
And in most cases, that's on top of their day jobs."
"Councillors are earning as much for a few hours' attendance, or non-attendance in some cases, at Council meetings, as some of the council workers whose jobs they vote to cut or outsource."
Cabinet members get around £600 a week, well over the average wage and the Council Leader a whopping £1,000 a week!
Socialists don't take positions, representing working class people, as a means to make money for themselves.
Ronnie pledges:
"Councillors are earning as much for a few hours' attendance, or non-attendance in some cases, at Council meetings, as some of the council workers whose jobs they vote to cut or outsource."
Cabinet members get around £600 a week, well over the average wage and the Council Leader a whopping £1,000 a week!
Socialists don't take positions, representing working class people, as a means to make money for themselves.
Ronnie pledges:
"If elected, I would take only genuine expenses, donating the rest of the councillor's wages to campaigners and trade unionists fighting cuts, like those being made by our overpaid Labour councillors."
