Nice work if you can get it: TUC boss given a £104,000 golden goodbye

Brendan Barber’s overall pay in 2012 was almost £300,000 (Bethany Clarke)
THE former head of the Trades Union Congress walked away from his job with a six-figure “golden goodbye”, newly published accounts reveal.
Brendan Barber was handed a “termination payment” worth £104,379 after he retired as TUC general secretary last year. The award meant that his overall pay package in 2012 was almost £300,000 — more than twice the salary of the prime minister.
Details of the eye-watering sum were slipped out this weekend as a number of unions prepare strike action against the coalition’s spending cuts.
A proposed rise in MPs’ salaries and large severance packages for outgoing BBC executives have also fuelled anger over fat-cat pay in the public sector.
A Sunday Times investigation has discovered that Barber is not the only union boss to be handsomely rewarded.