Barristers strike over pay

[rjfp1962]

Following on from last weeks RMT strikes, the barristers are taking their own action this week.....!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61946038

[Murph7355]

I can imagine sympathy running much higher with that group...

Traffic wardens will be out next.

[CrgT16]

Yes strikes used to full effect. Everyone lives a strike! FFS.

[Tankrizzo]

This is the legal aid thing, right? Secret Barrister predicted this happening some time ago I think.

[Biggy Stardust]

Why did we create a world where we seem to need so many lawyers?

[Gecko1978]

Biggy Stardust said:

Why did we create a world where we seem to need so many lawyers?

These are legal aid criminal ones....so maybe not their fault

[sugerbear]

Murph7355 said:

I can imagine sympathy running much higher with that group...

Traffic wardens will be out next.

I don't think you show sympathy with any people unless they are billionaires or tory MP's.

[franki68]

Easiest job in the world.


'I recommend you settle'

[Countdown]

rjfp1962 said:

Following on from last weeks RMT strikes, the barristers are taking their own action this week.....!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61946038

Great news if you're a criminal.......

[L1OFF]

This was my dream job but coming from a working class background (Dad was a Southampton stevedore) sadly was never to be.

[Pixelpeep 135]

Countdown said:

rjfp1962 said:

Following on from last weeks RMT strikes, the barristers are taking their own action this week.....!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61946038

Great news if you're a criminal.......

Unless you can't drive and like to rob houses that are a train ride away

[Camoradi]

This is serious. Who's going to make my coffee?

[Countdown]

L1OFF said:

This was my dream job but coming from a working class background (Dad was a Southampton stevedore) sadly was never to be.

Are the barriers to entry that hard? My cousin (northern mill town upbringing, daughter of a taxi driver, went to a Comprehensive rather than the local Grammar school) managed it.

[L1OFF]

Countdown said:

Are the barriers to entry that hard? My cousin (northern mill town upbringing, daughter of a taxi driver, went to a Comprehensive rather than the local Grammar school) managed it.

It was over 50 years ago.

[HiAsAKite]

Camoradi said:

This is serious. Who's going to make my coffee?

This needs the credit it deserves,,

[TwigtheWonderkid]

franki68 said:

Easiest job in the world.

I thought that was triangle player in a reggae band. You just stand at the back and ting.

[GetCarter]

Just so we all know the facts:

Training to be a criminal barrister: 5 years.

Cost of bar course: c.£13,000

Median annual income for juniors in first 3 years:

£12,200

[rampageturke]

Just getting in before the typical lot show up
PH conservatives: The price of living is getting pretty high!

>Workers strike for better pay because it's not enough

PH conservatives: No not like that

[valiant]

GetCarter said:

Just so we all know the facts:

Training to be a criminal barrister: 5 years.

Cost of bar course: c.£13,000

Median annual income for juniors in first 3 years:

£12,200

You just know that when Boris or a minister is asked for a comment they’ll choose the wages of a well paid commercial barrister on a squillion quid a year as a representative example of all barristers when in fact a criminal barrister earned a pittance in comparison.

[bitchstewie]

I'm surprised this can be allowed to happen as a consequence.

Woman charged with perverting course of justice told to represent herself in legal first