[quote=“dancarter”]Im not looking for any sympathy here but me and 80% of my colleagues would do 10 hours a week, at least, unpaid overtime a week. Thats an extra week and a bit per month we are working over our required hours. And we can only barely keep the ball pucked out at that. DO I have a choice? Of course I do…but there is huge rationlisation on the way for financial services and I need to make sure I wont be one of the unlucky ones.
I wouldnt have a problem with the unpaid leave solution though. Seems a practical solution to a difficult problem.
But it doesnt reflect particulalry well on PS if they can do the exact same job minus 12 days a year each. Basically saying they spent at least two and a half weeks dossing ;)[/quote]
:mad:You make my stomach turn you self obsessed pig:mad::guns:
On the news @ 1 they were saying that they had agreed a deal in relation to Health Sector reform and a total deal would be finalised by tonight, but I have just read now that the talks have collapsed.
great news, across the board cut in wages and let the cunts strike all they want.
unions have now all out admitted the service is bloated and un productive but are now spouting about a ‘once off opportunity to throw shape on the public service as being lost’, what cunts
I just read the government statement there. It’s plain ridiculous.
They rejected the Unions’ plan basically because it isn’t permanent in nature.
The statement starts off with:
“Our tax revenues have fallen sharply back to 2003 levels. This means that we will have a deficit in the region of €22 billion this year. To bridge this gap, we are borrowing over €400 million per week. This cannot continue.”
The clue here of course is that it’s tax revenues that are falling. As argued on here before our public expenditure isn’t high, indeed it’s low. But we’ve taken the pigheaded decision that the only way to tackle this is by docking wages (despite the knock-on affect that will have in further reducing PAYE and further reducing VAT from disposable income expenditure).
Government are also stepping way back from the fact that they agreed with the days off in theory a couple of days ago.
They’re trying to make themselves out as major facilitators if only the unions had bought into their side of things.
It beggars belief that the government genuinely think the solution to this problem is to reduce wages permanently and expecting to get the same services. It’s the most narrow-minded, shortsighted approach to a problem you can imagine.
We’re in a recession here. We’re not supposed to view this as the best case scenario. We shouldn’t be trying to perpetuate the shortfall in revenue by embedding structures that force people into permanent wage cuts. I heard some lad on Newstalk this lunchtime actually boasting that his staff had taken a wage cut and didn’t complain about it. He thought this was a positive thing and an example to everyone. With cunts like that dominating the airwaves it’s little wonder that the public are so keen to join the race to the bottom.
Big test for the unions (and for the working people now). I hope there’s a good response.
just give us the fookin paycut and be done with it at this stage…pain in my ring with this shit…the way negotiations went shows our nation as an embarassment yet again to the rest of the world…all sides included…anyone been reading the Irish idependent over last few days??..cowan must have ghost written every fookin article in it…jokeshop…:rolleyes:
the only way forward is for the strike to be immediately reconvened for budget day, and to bring home to people that the reason we’re facing these savage cuts is to bail out the banks, where we have had no re drawing of banking legislation, no prosecutions and no pound of flesh
would the socialists/wannabee socialists/pretend socialists here have much sympathy with the 160k packaged air traffic lads being suspended for refusing to use new technology?
