MY TRIBUTE TO OUR PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS…
By David Vance On November 29th, 2011Been away all day so just catching up. Have a read here of my published views on tomorrow’s Public Sector workers!
Plus, here is a fascinating economic fact.
“The median public sector wage in NI amongst females is some 65% above the equivalent wage within the private sector.”
As someone said elsewhere, it was good for the economy to take a full day off for the royal wedding but a full day of strike and it damages the economy…
odd that.
Public sector takes both.
Read the piece,not one sided is it? Love all those figures that get splayed everywhere.Like median-which means absolutely zilch really, except that an awful lot of people get much much less. Also, comparisons to private sector equivalents. Do we have an N.H.S. fully funded by the private sector? or are we comparing chalk and cheese.?There may be a lot wrong with the public sector but it is not the vampire it is made out to be. I’ve said my little piece for what it’s worth.
65% more wages, not enough, eh?
I salute those public sector workers who will WORK today.
The NHS is entirely funded from private sector.
Listening to all the back chat on the news – I get the impression that the Unions are very similar to all those other pressure groups, – the ones that regularly get condemned by the Left, as being the source of much of the corruption that infests our government – and far from having fairness and equality as a goal, are just trying to ‘get an edge’ for those they represent.
That the Labour Party are the parliamentary face of the Unions isn’t enough for them, they have the power, via strike action, to intimidate the nation when the government of the day doesn’t do their bidding.
Doesn’t this all rather beg the question – ‘Why do we have general elections?’, after all, the current situation can hardly be called democracy, can it?
I have no problem with individual trade associations or representation, but when they amalgamate into a national group such as the TUC or the entirely spurious ‘Public Sector Workers’, and take national group action, does it not border on an attempt at a political coup or an attempt to usurp governance from a legally elected parliament?
That it is purely for reasons of self-interest, makes it just as heinous as as any other pressure group’s attempt at perverting the will of parliament. Perhaps because of the numbers of people involved, makes it even more so.
The private sector, as a group has no such power, nor the ability, to excercise such pressure on government, and rightly so. Isn’t that why ‘pressure groups’, usually much smaller than the TUC, are so highly suspect, and generally frowned upon?
That parliament is elected to make political decisons and when acting as an employer, they are also elected to make, – by default, – decisions regarding their employment role.
By taking employment with the government an employee should recognise that, but they should not have the power of striking en masse, to intimidate said employer, and by default, the nation into doing their bidding.
Worker representation is all very well, but it is a very fine line between that and such overt intimidation as we have today.
Even the Mafia doesn’t intimidate to the point of extinction!