PUBLIC SECTOR STRIKE 30th NOVEMBER

[cantaloup63]

Naz might me on to something...

I think he is, when he points out

My parents are flying out in a couple of days.

Perhaps he could join them and not bother coming back.

As stated, I have no intention of striking since we are reasonably well paid and our working conditions have improved quite a lot over the last few years. The public coffers are low and it would be hypocritical to ask the better off to contribute more in taxes if we in the middle band aren't willing to make sacrifices too.
I have always said that my one gripe about the whole affair is that when I started out, I was told that it wasn't really worthwhile topping up my pension and that the most I could contribute was an additional 3%. If I had known at the time that this was not the going rate in comparison to the private sector then I would have made provisions at the time.

 

[joinerjohn]

My parents are flying out in a couple of days and if there are any delays i will confront any strikers at the airport and give them a good damned ear full They are disrupting peoples lives,.

I'd have a go at the strikers too,,,, but,,,, only if your parents have one way tickets though and have also bought you one as a surprise.

 

[Djnikon]

Lets just have a £25k salary cap for all, all have everybody earning the same wage, irrespective of what they do?

Hmm I would have to say Yes. Just as long as it only applied to those greedy pigs with their snouts in the trough, that are also known as MP's .

But how would all you plumbers and joiners and sparkys out there cope with taking a 75% cut?

 

[LooPrEvil]

Its 4.5 hours until the strike commences.

I predict it will have very little impact.

 

[ABCwarrior]

Woody in Brum says:

However, the maintenance operatives at my local are on £28-£33k for basic landlord repairs on a 37 hour week. Those on call outs at night might clear another £10-£15k

Is that for a tradesman on the council books? Good god, our local council advertises for sparkies, joiners and plumbers in the barren North where fuel is £14 a pint, and you have to do an 80 mile round trip for a loaf, for a TOP LINE of £19k....

See what's wrong with this country...(apart from it's attached to yours!), there's vast differences in the "going rate" for the same job. And housing is stretched up here too cos of the white settlers (getting away from the NWOMEM) buying them all up and making B&B's or "Grand Design" projects out of em...

 

[Alarm]

in the barren North where fuel is £14 a pint, and you have to do an 80 mile round trip for a loaf, for a TOP LINE of £19k....

Yeah right.

 

[LooPrEvil]

Well it looks like the public sector workers had a good turnout - which I didn't expect.

Well done to them for supporting their cause.

 

[cantaloup63]

Curious bit of arithmetic - "the government" claim that the strike may cost the UK £500,000,000. On the other hand, taking an average (nett) day's pay from the 2 million people who tooks part means that the daily pay of £200,000,000 that they get, earns £500,000,000 per day which in my simplistic view means that those 2 million public sector workers contribute towards the UK making at least £300,000,000 profit per day from their input

 

[Norcon]

Well done to them for supporting their cause.

What cause is that? Greed?

Guy I was working with today told me he gets his wifes salary for five years if she died.
Who pays for that?

He drives a digger for a living and if he dies she gets sweet fa (certainly nothing from the taxpayer) and he said thats the way it should be.
Fair play to him I thought.

Seen a bunch of those strikers today standing scratching themselves.
I'm surprised they stuck their noses out in the bitter cold. Most of them never done a good days work in their cosseted lives.

 

[cantaloup63]

I wonder if these changes to the contracts and pension packages may help attract high quality people into these jobs in future

 

[LooPrEvil]

Well done to them for supporting their cause.

What cause is that? Greed?

Their pension pot. Right or wrong its part of their terms of employment. The gov should not be allowed to change them just like that.

 

[Djnikon]

So... What happens next when the public sector unionists realise that in order to continue funding their current pension (and lifestyle) that this will need to be funded by cutting jobs... Their jobs, or their friends. If they say 1 in 4 jobs must go will they be looking at the 3 friends next to them and say - well as long as I'm alright...?
Madness, complete madness. Surely in a recession, we all have to take a hit.
I've just been told I will not be getting an increase in salary again this year (3 years running) and while costs increase to live I have had to cut my contributions to my private pension to offset losses elsewhere and even at that it's really not offsetting much any more.
Oh wait, I'll go on strike - the industrial equivalent of throwing one's toys firmly out of the pram.

 

[joe-90]

When you look how the UKs economic projections have just taken a nose dive you realise that most will lose their jobs over the next few years anyway.

London - twinned with Athens.

 

[Djnikon]

I wonder if these changes to the contracts and pension packages may help attract high quality people into these jobs in future

Define Quality...

 

[Norcon]

Soup kitchens are up and running in Spain. It will soon be the same here.
Just a matter of time.