So, who's striking today? Which Side are You On

[Brimmer_Bradley]

@artfoley

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As for the decade long pay freeze, from 2006 to 2016, the average salary in IE increased from 47612 to 55371, a whopping 16%. in the same period, pension costs have gone from 19m with 5114 employees on the books to 26m with 3772 employes, or while the workforce has fallen by 27% the pension costs have shot up by a whopping 30%

A few working men on the ground struggled to keep their pay up with the CPI and you have a problem with that?
How much of a % increase did, we’ll say Dinny o Brine get during the recession? It wasn’t a single digit %.
The likes of the lad mentioned above made a bid to gain control of a massive natural resource of the Irish state and you’re worried about the working class trying to keep up with the cost of living. The sooner you look outside of the Dinny/FG controlled media the better.

[Brimmer_Bradley]

Not many of the anti strike scabs in to discredit my points.

[Massey]

They’re all Billy big balls till it comes to their own jobs lad.

[balbec]

They only post in working hours

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

spot on. Seems to be a lot of fellas here favouring neoliberalism. Of course, it was an approach to economics very much associated with Maggie Thatcher so it’s interesting to see how much support her policies have here

[tallback]

@Brimmer_Bradley

@glasagusban

@Ambrose_McNulty

We had the second lowest electricity prices in Europe until the regulator was formed. They artificially increased the price to make renewables viable. It’s a fucking scam.

Ambrose has his tinfoil hat on again I see.

@Ambrose_McNulty is 100% correct on this. To leave competitors into the market the ESB had to increase their prices by 14%, the prices didn’t drop back ever since.
It’s gas to see the anti union sheep so animated about a trade union exercising their muscle against the rise of capitalism and privatization of vital public services.

A great example is the refuse collection services which were privatized, a small local charge at first, put down to environmental needs at first, a slow build up to full charges and now, bang, another tax on those already paying their taxes, the water shambles another scam that didn’t go to plan for FG, transport is obviously on the cards now to be sold to capitalism.
But don’t ye lads worry. Keep the working man down and vilify him if he stands up to capitalism by striking. Eventually the capitalists will own and control every aspect of our lives and decide how much we pay to get a bus or train.
FG will sell all of our infrastructure to the capitalists and set us back to times when employers/capitalists will own us again.
It’s happening on a global scale and the so called recession has helped the billionaires to set workers rights back to the early 70s again.

That’s just a vomit of union buzzwords. I can see why you’re moving up the SIPTU ladder though - I can sense great enthusiasm behind your incoherent thoughts.

[artfoley]

@Brimmer_Bradley

A few working men on the ground struggled to keep their pay up with the CPI and you have a problem with that?

How much of a % increase did, we’ll say Dinny o Brine get during the recession? It wasn’t a single digit %.

The likes of the lad mentioned above made a bid to gain control of a massive natural resource of the Irish state and you’re worried about the working class trying to keep up with the cost of living. The sooner you look outside of the Dinny/FG controlled media the better

Firstly, redacted is totally non sequitur onthis topic so let’s keep to the task in hand. As an aside though he should be stripped of all assets, if any.

Secondly those poor lads you’re referring didn’t struggle to keep up with CPI, they fairly outstripped and got their increase on the backs of people who are cut to bits during the recession. If you want to talk about fairness, do you think that was just and equitable?

[Brimmer_Bradley]

That’s a great comeback buddy. Keep fighting the fight on behalf of the corporations and attack the men that are organized and fighting for a fair slice of the wealth.

You’ll be employee of the month this month and and get a pat on the back while you make more & more for the company. They give you a Dunne’s voucher instead of a pay increase.

[Brimmer_Bradley]

I think the working classes shouldn’t turn on each other like some on here do. The monied guys love that, let the servile underclass kill each other about principles and all the while our wealth will grow.
I couldn’t be bothered me bollox right now looking for the correct stats about the amount of millionaires created in Ireland since 2006 but it’s somewhere in the region of 78,000, however Dinny’s media won’t report how the few are creaming it and love the way the plebs fight amongst themselves and attack the lads trying to improve their lot.
Keep knocking the unions and the organized trades, the millionaire lads love a fool like you.

[artfoley]

@Brimmer_Bradley

I think the working classes shouldn’t turn on each other like some on here do. The monied guys love that, let the servile underclass kill each other about principles and all the while our wealth will grow.

I couldn’t be bothered me bollox right now looking for the correct stats about the amount of millionaires created in Ireland since 2006 but it’s somewhere in the region of 78,000, however Dinny’s media won’t report how the few are creaming it and love the way the plebs fight amongst themselves and attack the lads trying to improve their lot.

Keep knocking the unions and the organized trades, the millionaire lads love a fool like you

And the union’s love a fool like you who keep the IE lads in ivory backscratchers while your pay was cut by 5%, had the pension levy and transport costs went up. You’re the servile one here, just too blind to see it.whee was the solidarity between the union’s in 2009? Where were the NBRU when the pension levy and paycuts were brought in? They were doing a very successful I’m alright jack on your back

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Fooleys changed his tune since he got that “AP” job

[Massey]

@Brimmer_Bradley talks a lot a shite at times but he’s spot on here.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Lads working in Banks and as auditors having the audacity to have a pop at train drivers

[Brimmer_Bradley]

The unions love a lad like me alright.Who will be the first to fight back against the corporations and FG who have shown time and time again that they facilitate the millionaires, underselling of NAMA properties?
Johnny Ronan, bankrupt developer, his €30k weekend in Morocco?
All the bankrupt ‘developers’ hired by NAMA on €200k a year ? Buying and selling their own properties?
Ireland’s oil and gas reserves given away for nothing ?
The Whiddy oil refinery sale ?
Remember Charles the cunt Haughey telling us to tighten our belts as he purchased his estate and private island ?
Yeah. Go have a right good cut at the lads looking for a 2% increase on €40k a year, the same lads that work for what should be a non profit making public transportation service.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

People who worked in nama were headhunted by vulture funds mate. That’s oireland for you

[Massey]

I wouldn’t mind but most of the cunts on here haven’t a pot to piss in.Living in a semi-d in the pale that they paid 400k for.

[Brimmer_Bradley]

Ah yeah but the train drivers are the cause of it all.

[Brimmer_Bradley]

I’ve a feeling that’s their biggest gripe, they want us all down the same trap as them. These were the same lads that laughed at PS workers during the boom with their big pay packets, but now that the corporations have moved on and abandoned them they want no one else to have a proper life.
They’re doing a sterling job for the capitalists though. The peasants turning on the peasants, win win situation for the millionaires.

[The_Most_Infamous]

The equity markets are booming…2017 has been unprecedented…the cuntish 1% have never had a better year.

When it all goes to shite in the near future…@labanes bear market will happen
.they’ll make even more gains.

The game is rigged.

[Brimmer_Bradley]

No doubt it is rigged. No fucking doubt, it’s hard to change it though with the likes of Fooley cheerleading for the 1%, however I don’t expect a lot of posters here can see that.