Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Time for a Genral Strike of all public workers? | |
Posted by: | Bernadette Paul | |
Date/Time: | 09/07/09 09:41:00 |
Are those posters advocating strikes and bemoaning the size of public workers' par rises for real? Don't you realise your pay rises no matter how small are paid for out of the taxes raised from those in the private sector who, if they are anything like me, have not even had a rise for the last 4 years! I have mentioned this before in postings but once more, my daughter is a civil servant working for the HO. When she took up her job 10 years ago she started on a salary £5,000 p.a. lower than me, she now earns £15,000 more than me. OK she has moved up a couple of grades but she has never not had an annual increase and she has frequently been awarded performance bonuses - something I have never received. I work in a high street solicitors and I can tell you I work with good lawyers who have been qualified and practising for many years and who still do not earn as much as my niece who is a teacher, another bunch that never stop moaning. Don't you people realise that the majority of people in employment in the UK are employed by small businesses many of whom work for nothing more than minimum wage, how many rises do you suppose they get? In the private sector you presumably get paid on results unlike the public sector where every sort of nitwit can expect an increase. I have two sons in law doing completely different jobs, neither of whom have had a pay increase for the last 3 years. One works in financial services and his salary is purportedly bonus driven. In other words he doesn't get pay increases but does rely on bonuses. He has this year achieved above target but the bonus has vanished - economic climate don't you know! Unscrupulous employers who may actually be in a position to reward employees (few though they may be) seize the opportunity to squeeze the last drop of work out of the staff on the basis that they should think themselves lucky to have jobs. |