Civil and Public Services Union members to strike if more pay cuts...

CommuterIE

http://breakingnews.ie/ireland/cpsu-opts-for-strike-action-if-pay-cuts-introduced-501576.html

I fear there's trouble ahead alright... Pay-cuts are inevitable...

It would be interesting to see their alternative proposals though, more of the same I'd bet... "efficiency rabble rabble"

hondasam

here we go again, more public service bashing. rabble rabble

vamos!

I'll summarise a couple of hundred posts in advance here. Make them work for minimum or the dole and see how they like it... no wait actually fire the lot of them. blah blah blah *insert friend of a friends story about the public servant who works for an hour a week, gets paid millions and eats free puppies and small children in the staff canteen- paid for by OUR taxes!*

Dyr

fire the lot of them and then rehire them and make them work at the same jobs for the dole but don't then give them the dole and then fire them and make them stand in the rain in a dole queue.

dvpower

hondasam wrote: »

here we go again, more public service bashing. rabble rabble

Isn't the story about certain public servants threathening to bash the public?

hondasam

dvpower wrote: »

Isn't the story about certain public servants threathening to bash the public?

No

CommuterIE

dvpower wrote: »

Isn't the story about certain public servants threathening to bash the public?

Indeed, the problem I think is that any strikes etc will cause serious disruption... and for what?? More cuts are comming in terms of pay and numbers either way... all this would achieve would be to damage public support for civil servants

sollar

hooray to the civil servants.... all the very best on your new quest!


They'll be singing:

its off on strike we go...... for a pocket full of dough...... and if anyone complains one jot we'll be back on work to ruuuuule!

Naikon

Rightly so. Some of those administration jobs could probably be replaced by a few lines of perl:D

th3 s1aught3r

They dont understand what its like to have a real job, with real threat of losing it
They should be docked pay for any time they refuse to work :mad:

sollar

They are not really saying anything that isn't already well understood. If croke park is broken and paycuts are implemented then all unions will be doing the same.

dvpower

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

They should be docked pay for any time they refuse to work :mad:

They are docked pay every time they refuse to work.

poolboy

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

They dont understand what its like to have a real job, with real threat of losing it
They should be docked pay for any time they refuse to work :mad:

A real job? I assume this is in the real world i keep hearing about.

Cian92

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

They dont understand what its like to have a real job, with real threat of losing it
They should be docked pay for any time they refuse to work :mad:

/Facepalm.

dvpower

sollar wrote: »

They are not really saying anything that isn't already well understood. If croke park is broken and paycuts are implemented then all unions will be doing the same.

It looks like they are giving the union the power/obligation to call a strike if there are any further pay cuts. This is going futher than waiting to for a specific action by the government and then making a decision based on that.

hondasam

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

They dont understand what its like to have a real job, with real threat of losing it
They should be docked pay for any time they refuse to work :mad:

Define real job.

themadchef

FFS lads, it's Saturday night, we have all week for bítching.

Pull up a chair.

Dyr

themadchef wrote: »

FFS lads, it's Saturday night, we have all week for bítching.

Pull up a chair.

Saturday night off? You must be one of them public sector workers :mad:

poolboy

themadchef wrote: »

FFS lads, it's Saturday night, we have all week for bítching.

Pull up a chair.

I agree. Anyway off to bed now have to be up at 6 in morning for work in my unreal job. I think thats what its called as jobs in private sector are real jobs apparently:rolleyes:

themadchef

Bambi wrote: »

Saturday night off? You must be one of them public sector workers :mad:

I finished at nine

poolboy wrote: »

I agree. Anyway off to bed now have to be up at 6 in morning for work in my unreal job. I think thats what its called as jobs in private sector are real jobs apparently:rolleyes:

My unreal job doesnt start as early as that, but i'll be there, all day.

hondasam

themadchef wrote: »

My unreal job doesnt start as early as that, but i'll be there, all day.

If you start early and work eight hours it is a full day regardless of what time you finish.

squod

No public service worker voted for austerity.

easyeason3

I worked in the public service for a while & yes, there are complete idiots working in the PS that wouldn't know a weeks work if it hit them in the face.
However there is a hell of a lot of PS workers who do actually work.

It's the minority that give the majority a bad name.

themadchef

hondasam wrote: »

If you start early and work eight hours it is a full day regardless of what time you finish.

.....and your point is?



Who's arguing about what a full day is? I only said i didint start as early as that poster did.

The way i see it, some people will argue for the sake of arguing on here.

dvpower

squod wrote: »

No public service worker voted for austerity.

There was a vote? I must have missed it. I'd definitely have voted against the financial crisis, property crash, banking crisis and the deficit.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

vamos! wrote: »

*insert friend of a friends story about the public servant who works for an hour a week, gets paid millions and eats free puppies and small children in the staff canteen- paid for by OUR taxes!*

I love this thread on another forum its a brilliant parody of stories like that.

CommuterIE

dvpower wrote: »

There was a vote? I must have missed it. I'd definitely have voted against the financial crisis, property crash, banking crisis and the deficit.

I believe he meant austerity measures.... but you knew that didn't you :P

hondasam

themadchef wrote: »

.....and your point is?



Who's arguing about what a full day is? I only said i didint start as early as that poster did.

The way i see it, some people will argue for the sake of arguing on here.

My unreal job doesnt start as early as that, but i'll be there, all day

was this not a dig at public service workers ?

if not I apologise.

themadchef

hondasam wrote: »

My unreal job doesnt start as early as that, but i'll be there, all day

was this not a dig at public service workers ?

if not I apologise.

WTF?

Why on earth would someone who posted a few minutes before that asking people not to be bítching suddenly stafrt doing it herself?

No, not a dig. If i'm coming at you, you wont have to wonder, it will be pretty in your face, up front and on the table. I dont do subtle, ever

Apology accepted, now lets all have a love in. Is there no public serants in here to serve the táe! :pac:

aligator_am

In fairness, the lower levels of the Public Service aren't on great wages, and many of them started after 1995 (pre 1995 Public Sector workers basically can't be sacked, but if they are, they can't claim the dole).

If more cuts are introduced, I personally don't think it's fair to land them on the lower earners, most of them would earn below €28k per annum, I think the cuts should be aimed at the top and middle bunch who would earn anything from €45k to €80k, that's not including the very top.

noodler

Disgraceful

They'll get no support for this whatsoever.

I hope that further pay cuts will not affect the "lower" earners as much as the higher though.

noodler

squod wrote: »

No public service worker voted for austerity.

They didn't say anything when the country started paying them wages and pensions it couldn't afford either.

Part and parcel I am afraid.

squod

I may have been using sarcasm. There's literally loads of people working in the PS. Each of them has a vote etc.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

The unions are in bed with the government and only care about their own members. I'd agree with them standing against further pay cuts but they are motivated by purely selfish reasons and have no solidarity with the other people of this country.

Plazaman

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

The unions are in bed with the government and only care about their own members. I'd agree with them standing against further pay cuts but they are motivated by purely selfish reasons and have no solidarity with the other people of this country.

The CPSU represents the lower grades of the the Civil/Public service who are the people that are the frontline staff of most Departments, that serve the citizens of this country and have nothing but solidarity with them as they are in the same boat re mortgage arrears, bills, worries etc. They treat people with respect regardless of the news stories.

Micky Dolenz

Public service bashing forum.