I work in the public sector and I'm in Unison, but decided not to strike today even though my son's school is closed due to strikes. I just can't afford to lose a days pay.
the public sector is quite a broad range of careers. Feel sorry for those in the NHS that have to work in extremely physically and mentally challenging jobs until they are 68. Doesn't fill you full of confidence as a future patient!
Get another job? Why should I? You make it sound so easy!
BTW i'm public sector and i'm striking today.
I don't get it sometimes. If they don't like it then get another job?
It is different for nurses and doctors etc but if you are a pen pusher for the council, just get another job.
Nobody wants to strike, lose money that you never get back - however it is the only way the working man/woman can get there point across in the strongest possible terms. The unions involved have obviuosly held a lawful ballot for industrial action otherwise they would have been taken to the high court to get the 'day of action' stopped. The turnout for that ballot (25% of membership I believe someone quoted) has no bearing to the outcome if the majority voted for strike action than that is what it is. The other 75% should have excercised their right to vote instead of just ignoring it if they had voted perhaps the outcome would have been different.
My personal opinion is that nobody outside of the actual negotiating bodies know what is the actual truth behind the detail as, speaking from experiance, both side add their own spin to the situation.
Yea must be tougher than a coalminer or policeman....bless give em bigger pension and finish at 40
There was a couple of interesting examples mentioned by someone from the government that did annoy me though.
Only 23% of the electorate voted for The Conservatives at the General Election, and only 39% for combined Conservative/Lib Dems(Though nobody actually voted for a coalition)
If, as the Tories keep bleating, they want it to be 51% of the membership to vote for a strike to make it valid(not merely a majority of those who voted), then are they not, by their own definition, an in-valid government?
I have to say my experience of working in the public sector is that there is too much wastage and years of it being ran like a circus (I am only talking from the education side of things) and in my eyes serious changes do need to be made and it certainly starts needing to be run very much as a private sector business.
The one thing I never hear as well is from the Public Sector side of things is coming up with a different solution, our country is in serious debt other countries such as Greece and Italy are fucked with numerous others on the brink what do they expect our Government to do? The simple fact is costs need to be cut and they need to save money and until somone can come up with a suitable alternative then everyone has to bite the bullet.
I have to say my experience of working in the public sector is that there is too much wastage and years of it being ran like a circus (I am only talking from the education side of things) and in my eyes serious changes do need to be made and it certainly starts needing to be run very much as a private sector business.
The one thing I never hear as well is from the Public Sector side of things is coming up with a different solution, our country is in serious debt other countries such as Greece and Italy are fucked with numerous others on the brink what do they expect our Government to do? The simple fact is costs need to be cut and they need to save money and until somone can come up with a suitable alternative then everyone has to bite the bullet.
Apart from the Cabinet and MPs it seems. Francis Maude, the tory twat who is constantly telling those of us in the public sector how lucky we are gets a £500K lump sum and something like £50K a year when he retires.
There's the fallacy that all us public sector workers have golden pensions. Not so. If you're a teacher or a fireman or a Chief Exec maybe so, but not for the rest of us.
I agree that the country should be run like a private sector business. So how about we stop paying people for doing nothing. That would save a fortune.
Get another job? Why should I? You make it sound so easy!
BTW i'm public sector and i'm striking today.
I'm with you brother! Fight the power!
Though the only thing I would say, and again this is from my personal experience, is that many many people in the Public Sector would then suddenly find themselves out of jobs.
Too be fair Cov Uni have just started doing it, they have outsourced some of their International Admissions jobs to India whilst making roughly 30 people or so redundant. I am afraid if you run it like a business then things like this will become reality....
An x ray guy on £35k would contribute £70k over their career and it would provide a pension pot of £18k per year which would cost £500k in the private sector.
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