General Forum - Today`s Strikes and how they affected Heathrow immigration - Page 1

Ho hum...Serwotka and his union baron cronies on £100k+ and fat pension contributions and can't be ousted....

Many public sector workers, including teachers and nurses, can go on the sick on full apy for 6 months and half pay for six months after that.

Come on get real people.

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Mikeonfreeserve says...
Many public sector workers, including teachers and nurses, can go on the sick on full apy for 6 months and half pay for six months after that.
And very few do.  What's your point?

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I was affected by the strike, I got less phonecalls from ppl with IT problems

Well...

Teacher here. I didn't strike. (shouts of "scab!") I couldn't afford to lose that money over Christmas and New Year.
I know most of my colleagues just had a day at home doing school work...with no pay.
We had no students in as we were shut.

I have been teaching for 7 years and do not know of one teacher on long term sick. It's the very small minority. (very small)

I always say to people if you're that annoyed that you're missing out come and train for public sector (and be out of pocket and have to pay back over the next 10 years) and then work with dregs of society, have 35 kids in a class, work long hours over holidays etc then come back to us.





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The dreams in which i'm dying are the best i've ever had.

What the union leaders seem to have forgotten is that they're dealing with a conservative government. They can strike all they want, but all the Tories will do is blame any and all hardship caused by the action squarely on the shoulders of the strikers, and the voices of all those staying away from work will be summarily ignored.

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Having watched Newsnight, I'm kind of leaning on the side of the public sector here, it does seem like they thrashed out a deal 5 years ago and are now being told that they will have even less of a pension now, and have to pay more money for the privilidge.

Quite how much of my view is down to that loathsome slimeball minister they had on defending it, I'm not quite sure.

It is quite easy to cite one or two examples of lazy public sector workers who took advantage of what they were offered and then get up in arms about them, when perhaps what we should really be doing is trying to raise the private sector to match it.


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And what about the News reports earlier tonight...

"Another side of the strikes actually seeing an increase today is shopping... hello madam what brings you out today?"
"I was forced into a day off due to my daughters' school being closed so we came out shopping to spend our money, didn't we?" (show picture of little girl nodding excitedly and happily, move to different shopper ) 
"And you madam, were you made to have a day off due to the strike action?"
"No, I'm on strike" (insert inane grin) "So thought I'd come out shopping instead of staying at home"

WTF?!?! 
I always thought if you were ON STRIKE it meant you were part of the picket line, not just having a day off to do as you pleased (paid or unpaid)


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The beloved and sainted Baroness Thatcher introduced laws about picketing limiting the numbers to minimise the "threat" to people who wanted to go into work, so everybody who's on strike can't all be on the picket lines without breaking the law.  In any case being on strike simply means withholding your labour, so it doesn't really matter what they do as long as they aren't in work doing what they're usually paid to do.

I wonder how many people working in the private sector would happily accept their boss saying "We aren't making enough profit this year for me to buy a Ferrari, so I'm expecting you all to take a pay cut and forget your pension scheme so I can buy one."  Effectively, the Government is trying to do a Robert Maxwell on the public sector workers.  The next step will be revising that legislation to give private sector bosses the ability to raid private pension schemes and everybody will be looking at an old age in the poor house.

Surprise surprise I'm on the side of the workers.  Watched Nick Robinson on his show about political spending trying to buttonhole people to contribute money to give to other people (to demonstrate how nobody likes paying tax).  I'm sure Old Nick earns more money as chief political correspondent to the BBC than most of the folk he was talking to.

They're all careful to go on and on and on about money when the great injustice most people get upset about is privilege.  Everybody (including the hyper-rich) thinks they're not rich and that somebody else is, but that's not the point.  Rich isn't about actual monetary worth, it's about the power, influence and untouchability that money can buy but is more likely acquired through cosying up to politicians, bankers, media barons and the like.  Russian oligarchs in this country may be obscenely rich and they may be able to buy the country clubs they aspire to, but they'll never be part of the glitterati set who really run the UK, the souped-up Old Boys' network that keeps the likes of Ken Clarke in six-course dinners and cigars.  They're the people who need taxing (and ideally wrapping in chains).

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