How do people feel about this one? Will it be short and sweet?
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30% are you off your phucking rocker ? Maybe we can switch in Gold dust for your showers and give you a daily add on of champaine and caviar , sure while we are at it Mercs all around for the 400k Public sector employees..You lads should be doing the next L'oriel add, because your worth it
I'd tend to agree. USC should be scrapped and PS salaries should be increased by a minimum of percent.
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Billy Big Balls over here. Tell us Billy, what do you suggest companies that rely on gas inputs such as fertiliser manufacturing, energy companies, smelting, etc get additional, cheaper gas supplies from?
Are you willing to deal directly with Putin the Murderer?
So come on then. Let's hear your solution to the shortage of fossil fuel?
You're all mouth so you must have plenty of ideas.
30% over 3 years is the sensible approach.
If we stopped dealing with all the murdering dictators, industry would come to a grinding halt.
Unfortunate, but true.
Regards. Billy Big Balls
No, I'm perfectly sane.
If the additional perks were offered as suggested in your post, I would settle for 29% as a gesture of goodwill.
I'm surprised to find that I agree with @fliball123 here:
10% pay increase now and if deflation kicks in then a commensurate reduction.
Of course, the total combined deflation, in the entire history of the state, is only about -7%. So the odds of holding that pay increase would be pretty good.
Maybe, like @salonfire suggested, tying pay to inflation would make sense.
Weird the two anti-pay increase commentors are, inadvertantly, now in favour of a full pay increase to match inflation!
You missed where I said there has to be consideration with our overtaxing nature on civilians and our debt would also have to be brought into equation as well as not just basing a payrise on what could be temporary inflation. We could well see a fair part of the upcoming recession where inflation is still on an upward trend.
Ha, you're inadvertently limiting your own earnings potential by tracking pay to inflation. Pay increases of 30%+ is common by changing employers or upskilling, regardless of inflation.
Why are all these companies you refer to making record profits in such a gas crisis?
Off the back of the hardworking common worker.
It's time we stand up to the greedy corporations and few right wing nutters like yourself who support them.
Sigh. I have to explain primary school maths to the public sector worker.
If a company makes 3% profit of each unit and the underlying price per unit changes, the absolute value of profit increases correspondingly.
Yes it does. But the profit % shouldn't change. What's happening is the % is growing so it's nothing to do with the scenario you just made up.
Have you any evidence of this?
It's quite the company that can increase prices due to higher input costs AND to increase profits while not losing customers to competitors.
Maybe you can tell me the name of this company? I must invest everything I have into it!!
Just Google energy company windfall tax or read a newspaper that reported the H1 financial results and compare.
You've surprisingly little knowledge for a person with such big talk.
So you don't have any evidence. It's just you struggle to understand percentages. Unsurprising.
Arguing with a fool makes two.
So now it's the taxi drivers turn. 12% increase in fares starting from next week.
Panda waste also announced a 12% increase in waste collection and annual service charges on the way.
Temporary inflation right fliball? They're sure to decrease charges in the next few months /sarcasm.
Anything less than a 10% increase in pay for public servants isn't going to cut it. Prices of goods and services visibly rising week on week.
I told you things would get worse and this is just the tip to quote GOT "winter is coming", this is of course leading into a recession and higher interest rates which leads to people with less money to spend, which means prices will have to start coming back down but don't let that get in the way of the 400k been given the ammunition to chase inflation which will cause inflation to continue on an upward trajectory. The fact is you have a choice to use a taxi or not to use one the same cannot be said when it comes to our public services. If taxi fares keep going up people will simply choose not to take one and there be a point where taxi drivers either have to quit or lower fares.
If talks are back next week and agreed say in September, would we get any bump in oct/nov of will it be next year do you think?
I would hope there would be extra on top of the 1% due in October. Waiting for next year is no good for the increases happening now and the energy bills due this winter.
I hope the talks don’t drag for this entire reason, people will need help with inflation before the new year
Yeah that's what I was hoping, just turned radio off, too much bad news about prices going up and up!
Of all the unadulterated sh*te you regularly spout this has to be up there with one of your finest contributions! Your basic understanding of economics is embarrassing and that's perfectly fine as must non-experts don't understand how it works, but at least they have the good sense to keep their gobs shut!
I would guess that Fliball is probably an undergraduate student studying first year economics at college.
Only for those over 34000. How about the rest of us?
Where am I wrong? Typical over the top reaction when there is no argument
Well the great thing is we only have to wait say 12/18 months to see if I was right
If he is then I would agree with Fliball on this one, his Lecturer certainly doesn't deserve a pay rise!
Yes, in that case you would obviously be Eddie Hobbs in disguise.
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