Public sector unions

[Moscow Mule]

Detest teachers, self righteous arses.

Nobody should be allowed to teach without some time in the private sector.

Yes, that would be totally workable....

[PorkPie]

Need a return of Thatcher ...

Would have to be Carol or Mark this time though...maybe we need a poll...

[bekarovka]

The difference is that no-one agreed your pay rise over the next three years, which the government did with teachers, who are already underpaid for the work that they do and the crap that they have to deal with.

No, but I feel that compared to the pain that a lot of us and other people in the wider private sector are experiencing, this is a drop in the ocean.

[bogeyman]

Detest teachers, self righteous arses.

Nobody should be allowed to teach without some time in the private sector.

I know a few teachers (oddly, all married couples - teachers marry teachers, it seems). They mostly go from school straight to uni and then on to teaching.

The one's I know, know diddly-squat about work, or business, and are mostly financially independent (through inherited money). They take teaching as an 'easy' career option (personally I would hate it).

They also tend to keep dirty, smelly, chaotic houses.

[Mich the Tester]

Perhaps they should take a look at the thousands of people who've lost their jobs in private businesses since the start of all this mess and the thousands of others who've seen their pay cut by significant percentages and just be glad that their own income is ensured for the next few years.

[Doggy Styles]

"... wouldn't rule out industrial action if it came to pass because "we are a frontline service and the recession is the fault of greedy bankers not us" etc etc."

The recession is the fault of everyone. We were already running a growing deficit before the banking problems came to light.

[Mich the Tester]

"... wouldn't rule out industrial action if it came to pass because "we are a frontline service and the recession is the fault of greedy bankers not us" etc etc."

The recession is the fault of everyone. We were already running a growing deficit before the banking problems came to light.

Yes, but interesting to note that the unions don't name Labour's policies as one cause of the recession.

[SuperZ]

Unions can break a company yet in the Public Sector just waste more of the taxpayers cash.

Many pubby sector services won`t go on strike. I`ve heard from a source at the Met Office that they had considered striking a few times in the past but know the public would laugh their ar**s off at them if they did.

Unions - ban them. Postal services striking around christmas, luggage handlers at Summer hols, it just pi$$es people off.

[TheFaQQer]

No, but I feel that compared to the pain that a lot of us and other people in the wider private sector are experiencing, this is a drop in the ocean.

Compared to the overall income that a lot of us in the private sector are experiencing, theirs is a drop in the ocean.

[TheFaQQer]

Postal services striking around christmas, luggage handlers at Summer hols, it just pi$$es people off.

I may be missing something, but isn't that the point of striking? It makes people more aware of the issues, hoping that this in turn will put pressure on the employers to settle. There is no point in striking if nobody notices, is there?