Thursday, Feb 25, 2010
So it begins
BBC: 270,000 civil servants to strike next month
Up to 270,000 civil servants are to stage a 48-hour strike on 8 and 9 March in a dispute over cuts to public sector redundancy terms.
The walkout will involve Jobcentre staff, tax workers, coastguards, border agency officials, courts staff and driving test examiners.
Posted by cat and canary @ 05:12 PM (1527 views) Add Comment
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1. 51ck-6-51x said...
Border agency officials AND coastguards? ...time to get-a-smugglin'!
But seriously, if only 1 in 5 of "the lowest turnout in years" voted to strike, how many of the 270,000 members will actually strike?!
2. letsgetreadytotumble said...
Would we notice?
3. str 2007 said...
We actually have Border Agency Officials ???
You'd never have guessed would you.
4. cat and canary said...
"The walkout will involve Jobcentre staff, tax workers, coastguards, border agency officials, courts staff and driving test examiners."
@2&3...aheheheh..
must admit, it is ironic that (a) there are few jobs for jobcentre workers to fill (b) not much tax for tax workers to collect, (c) not many ships carrying goods for coastguards to monitor (d) not many immigrants anymore for border agency staff to check and (e) not many young folk who can afford driving lessons!
5. alan_540 said...
Changes to redundancy terms, looks like those public sector job losses are being planned...
6. icarus said...
I suppose if members of the oldest profession start calling themselves 'sex workers' then members of the second oldest profession will inevitably call themselves 'tax workers'.
7. jallan said...
I would like to see parity between the public sector and the private sector with regards to terms and conditions. I know someone who was made redundant from the DWP in 1995 after 30 years service, at the age of 48. They were paid a lump sum in the thousands, they were paid a salary of approx 14000 a year until they were 60, at which point they received another lump some in the thousands because they never married. They are now in receipt of a final salary pension for 38 years service, not the 30 worked. He will also get his state pension next year as well. The person in question has never worked since the age of 48 and has spent the last 15 years smoking and drinking themselves stupid. He only owes 7000 on his mortgage. I however have only worked in the private sector and have had to put up with the brutal reality of it, my retirement age is 67 at which point I will get a state poverty pension.
8. mark said...
Todays Headline
"illegal immigrants now readying themselves for UK invasion scheduled for March 8-9"
9. letthemfall said...
jallan
Some years ago a good few people in public sector jobs were offered early retirement (which is what this example sounds like) because the depts concerned saved money doing this. In the past many employees in the private sector did well from their pension schemes. It is not a question of parity between private and public sectors, but equality throughout the economy. Some private sector individuals do ludicrously well, earning fortunes for no good reason except that they can get away with it, while the majority, private and public, struggle on low incomes.