Flyingsnowball wrote: » Ambulance drivers have put their name on the list to catch the gravy train on the fecal merry go round. It’s like a swirling toilet. Who will be next?
Dakotabigone wrote: » Leo or Simon.
mad muffin wrote: » Hold on. The GP’s were out today. Besides. Everything that’s happening now on the health service is a direct result of FG’s ill advised austerity measures a decade ago.
Birneybau wrote: » And what do you do yourself?
Birneybau wrote: » And what do you do yourself? I will not begrudge nurses or emergency staff a good wage, they do some of the most important jobs going.
Flyingsnowball wrote: » I flush my taxes down the swirling toilet.
artanevilla wrote: » I would say it's actually a direct result of now FF leader Michael Martin's creation of the HSE.
Flyingsnowball wrote: » I’d say without the binman we would be up to our necks in filth but nobody calls that an important job.
Dakotabigone wrote: » Fcuk Charlie Haughey.
Miike wrote: » The "ambulance drivers" (christ alive) are simply looking for the right to choose which union represent them but I don't expect people like you to go further than a headline to find out the substance of anything though.
Dakotabigone wrote: » Queue the rubbish jokes.
CramCycle wrote: » +1 FFS, they went on strike awhile ago as well, they get paid pretty **** money, I got more as a barman before college than the typical paramedic. Same with nurses. People banging on about average wages being X, rather than the fact that the median wage (ie what the typical one works on) which is much lower. Emergency frontline staff should be well paid because, like it or not, they are not only at the coalface of our day to day lives or our family lives, they take risks beyond what most of us would ever find acceptable. The government had a get out of jail free card with both of these. Call in the other union heads and spell it out, these are front line staff, they are getting what they want (and the paramedics really want **** all other than recognition), with a promise there would be no other strike by any other union for a predetermined time given the PSA was held too. Simple, cheap but not easy enough for any politician to suggest. FF happy for it to go on as it will damage FG, FG foolishly thinking that the public think the same about this as the LUAS and the minority parties happy to take cheap pot shots without offering real alternatives.
kneemos wrote: » They're paid way more than their UK comrades. Hopefully this Government will have the balls to finally put some manners on the public servants. Teachers must be the best paid in the world at this stage.
Twenty Grand wrote: » Fantastic news. People should be paid high wages.
Flyingsnowball wrote: » People who get low wages should pay taxes so people can get huge wages
beejee wrote: » Medical staff, with a broad brush, are getting paid at, or above, average wage. They don't want more money for the sake of it, they need more money to keep up with the runaway inflation in the country. They luckily have a gigantic union behind them whereas most people don't. This isn't going to work out. Paying more money is akin to chugging more and more coal into a train furnace while simultaneously hoping it slows down because youre running out of coal. This is nonsense. Its barking mad. To be clear, it isn't wages that's the problem, its the costs of this country. But all attention shall be focused on wages until the train comes hurtling off the tracks. Again. Its drawing close.
Birneybau wrote: » And what do you do yourself? I will not begrudge nurses or emergency staff a good wage, they do some of the most important jobs going. TDs and other such politicians don't deserve half what they get in salary, expenses and pensions. Their remuneration is ridiculous.
Twenty Grand wrote: » 50 or 60k isn't a huge wage. People on low wages pay next to no taxes. What country do you live in?
