Good friend of mine just got let go from his job there.
Kinda hits you when it happens to someone you know.
What a balls.
one of my mates who is a builder is off to Iraq in the next few weeks
desperate times & all that
[quote=“north county corncrake”]one of my mates who is a builder is off to Iraq in the next few weeks
desperate times & all that[/quote]
Is he going building out there or selling cars?
I’d say there’s plenty of work for both.
building on a US base
At least it’s something he can be proud of.
CPSU are expecting 98% to vote for this one day strike…
What way are you voting?
Strike-Strike-Strike
From Todays Irish Times:
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
The end of the world is nigh if CPSU goes on one-day strike
NEWTON EMERSON
NEWTON’s OPTIC: ENOUGH OF this reckless complacency over a possible one-day strike by the Civil Public and Services Union (CPSU). Does nobody realise the anarchy such an action will unleash? CPSU represents 13,000 clerical, administrative and first-line managerial staff in the Civil Service, plus clerical and sales grades in the semi-State sector. Little more needs to be said to conjure up the horrors that would follow withdrawal of their labour.
CPSU has also set up a committee to examine various forms of industrial action which would disrupt the management of Government services. This is disturbingly Machiavellian, as setting up a committee is itself the classic means of disrupting Government services.
But the prospect of a 24-hour strike is already quite frightening enough.
Imagine having to wait 10 months and one day for a driving test, instead of waiting just 10 months.
Imagine having to send your tax return in to the Revenue Commissioners on October 30th this year instead of October 31st, because it is entirely your fault that they all took a day off in February.
Imagine visiting your local social welfare office only to find it closed, forcing you to return the next day to be curtly informed that self-employed people are not entitled to job-seekers benefit anyway and, besides, social welfare is only for the socially excluded, you private-sector son-of-a-banker scumbag.
Above all, imagine thousands of phones ringing unanswered in Civil Service offices up and down the country because there is nobody there to answer them, rather than because there is nobody there who will answer them.
Spooky, isnt it?
While the effect of a CPSU strike on public services would be bad enough, the impact on semi-State companies hardly bears thinking about.
What would happen at An Post, where hard-working sales and clerical staff are the bedrock of its famed efficiency?
How will Fs function without CPSU members to process expenses claims from Florida beauty parlours and other nail-biting recovery specialists?
How will Coillte Teoranta function without CPSU members to sort out the wood-related invoices from the tree-related invoices?
CPSU is a particularly important union at the Irish Aviation Authority. If air traffic controllers suspect that the union-nominated diversity officer is not at her desk in the purchasing department, planes could start falling from the sky.
But of all the dangers posed by a CPSU strike, it is the prospect of paralysed police stations that is surely the most unsettling. As vital services begin to break down, how can garda be called out to maintain public order without full clerical backup?
Just to ask the question is to realise how far CPSU has us all over a barrel. Since 2000, clerical officers in the Civil Service have had their pay increased by 44 per cent. CPSU now claims that deferring another 6 per cent increase is effectively a 12 per cent cut. This is final and conclusive proof of the administrative ingenuity which makes these people so absolutely indispensable. It is difficult to see how society could function for even 24 hours without
them.
Indeed, the situation could easily become so unstable that martial law might have to be declared.
While in no way wishing to cause alarm, my advice is to start stockpiling food.
This article appears in the print edition of the Irish Times
It may take more than one day to sort out all this mess.
Lets try a day a week for a few months.
What happens if the CPSU picks a Wednesday…No Dole!..Martial Law here we come.
[quote=“tipptops*”]It may take more than one day to sort out all this mess.
Lets try a day a week for a few months.
What happens if the CPSU picks a Wednesday…No Dole!..Martial Law here we come.[/quote]
all civil servants should strike every friday & monday mornings till we get change
a possible solution to the mess we are in is for some sharpshooter to take out Jack OConnor and a few of his buddies before they lead us to rack and ruin.
Some union ape on with Matt Cooper the other night wanted the lads who sold the land to give back the reddies to the banks so the bad loans can be scrapped.
These are the numbskulls leading the CS into battle, these are the morons leading the CS out onto the streets.
Who has a good shot?
[quote=“HBV*”]a possible solution to the mess we are in is for some sharpshooter to take out Jack OConnor and a few of his buddies before they lead us to rack and ruin.
Some union ape on with Matt Cooper the other night wanted the lads who sold the land to give back the reddies to the banks so the bad loans can be scrapped.
These are the numbskulls leading the CS into battle, these are the morons leading the CS out onto the streets.
Who has a good shot?[/quote]
Yeah its the unions that have led us to ruin alright…
from here on in they are running the show right into to the ground, why and how we got here will not fix anything
It’s not irrelevant though is it. Paying any attention to the mercenary greedy fuckers who created this mess should be a criminal offence.
put our faith into the politicans, the developers, the auditors,the bankers & the economists,Ibec etc - they are the good guys
the cheek of the unions trying to protect the little guy against these top individuals:rolleyes:
they keep saying that everyone should pay for this so why are they attacking the civil servants & not raising tax for everyone- the union member on the starting civil servant is less likely to afford a reduction in pay than all the millionaires who are getting away scot free
Really bad day on the jobs front today, 1,300 jobs gone at Dublin Airport.
News that the country is entering into deflation isn’t good either, deflation is fooking poison as far as jobs are concerned. I’m now worried!
477 jobs gone in Limerick as well at one of the plants linked to Dell. Apprently they have just upped and set up an identical plant beside Dells new factory in Poland. The workers there were placed on protective notice within an hour of the Dell announcement last month.
[quote=“HBV*”]a possible solution to the mess we are in is for some sharpshooter to take out Jack OConnor and a few of his buddies before they lead us to rack and ruin.
Some union ape on with Matt Cooper the other night wanted the lads who sold the land to give back the reddies to the banks so the bad loans can be scrapped.
These are the numbskulls leading the CS into battle, these are the morons leading the CS out onto the streets.
Who has a good shot?[/quote]
look high ball if you’re going to start shooting people for this mess I suggest that you start with bentie ahem, the boards of all banks, property developers etc.
if you can manage to get yourself away from the idea that all civl servantsare on megabucks and note that the CPSU represent the members that are between 15,000 to 35,000 then you might be able to see why we are balloting on strike action. with the pension levy in it will put most of those members in the position that they would be better off on the dole
[quote=“artfoley”]look high ball if you’re going to start shooting people for this mess I suggest that you start with bentie ahem, the boards of all banks, property developers etc.
if you can manage to get yourself away from the idea that all civl servantsare on megabucks and note that the CPSU represent the members that are between 15,000 to 35,000 then you might be able to see why we are balloting on strike action. with the pension levy in it will put most of those members in the position that they would be better off on the dole[/quote]
I’m with you on CPSU thing. Teachers, Gardai etc i don’t have much sympathy with them talking about striking, but the members of the CPSU are the ones who have the most valid case to be striking. They are on the shit money and they are being asked to take a 100-200 p/m wage cut. Thats like an extra car loan to some people.
[quote=“north county corncrake”]put our faith into the politicans, the developers, the auditors,the bankers & the economists,Ibec etc - they are the good guys
the cheek of the unions trying to protect the little guy against these top individuals:rolleyes:
they keep saying that everyone should pay for this so why are they attacking the civil servants & not raising tax for everyone- the union member on the starting civil servant is less likely to afford a reduction in pay than all the millionaires who are getting away scot free[/quote]
Not everyone in the private sector is coining it in. The comparison between civil servant and property millionaire is incorrect. Compare the worker in Dell with the civil servant. One has lost his job the other is being asked to pay something extra for his guaranteed defined benefit pension. You don’t hear much out of the unions complaining about people losing their jobs? But still we needed that 3% for the National Wage agreement though didn’t we that the Unions were complaining about?
There are not many millionaire property developers left out there. Those that still have money, took a risk and got rewarded for it. Too well to be sure but the lemons ( me included) that ran out to get our foot on the property ladder all contributed to that. The rest (the Dunnes of the world are now bankrupt) got too much money from the banks, they are culpable, the banks more foolish for giving them money and now we are being asked to bail out the banks. Is this right- No
But what’s the alternative? Leave the banking system go down the tubes. Punishing developers isn’t the answer, but leaving the country to the unions certainly isn’t the answer either.
WBY