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TBH you can pretty much say with certainty that if the Daily Mail and The Sun are screaming at you to hate something, it's almost certainly the right thing to do.
LOL, dear god what aweful reasoning.
Yes, I agree in principal, but what happened to the pickets of yore?
Private - Private
No, but a bit "meh"
😯 REALLY?TBH you can pretty much say with certainty that if the Daily Mail and The Sun are screaming at you to hate something, it's almost certainly the right thing to do.
No
Fact is, we're [b]all[/b] living longer. [b]All[/b] of us will have to pay more, and retire later.
Anyone in a private sector pension arrangement saw this sort of change a decade ago....the unions can be Canute-like, but increased life expectancy brings its own problems which can't be organised.
Oh, and I had a lovely journey in today. Much less traffic in London.
NO. The country is in a mess, we all need to make sacrifices. You'll still all be retired well before me and my mates. I'd still swap my pension for yours any day.
No
Yes
Yes.
(And I'm definitely not public sector.)
Yes. Public sector (nurse). Not in the pension scheme though... 🙄
No..
No
No
NO. The country is in a mess, we all need to make sacrifices.
Except the well-off.
REALLY?
So outraged you had to post twice about it? It was a somewhat facetious comment - but the level of vitriol poured on the unions/strikers by the tabloids is pretty telling IMO. And for those who didn't realise already, recent public enquiries might have showed how vile and immoral the tabloids really are.
What's the result so far?
No
Yes
NO
Yes (it'll give the government much needed public support to cut more heavily).
nope
I went out on a ride this morning to show my soldarity and there was no-one else around. Have I got the wrong day?
(Damn cold on the fingers and toes - could have done with passing a nice picket line fire to warm up)
No
NO
its just a day off for them to go Christmas shopping, as can clearly be seen from people in tiwn this morning (buisier than normal, families out shopping with kids in tow)
While small business owners like me come into work to make money/ pay taxes/ VAT to fund their wages and pensions
YES, for the democratic right to with draw your labour,
and NO, for the reason it will achieve absolutely nothing, as quite a lot of the strikers also dont work weekends or over bank holidays and christmas.So just another holiday without pay it apears fopr them.
So outraged you had to post twice about it?
😀 No, I posted it once but it didn't show. And I didn't spot the hidden side 😀
Quick adding up - so far:
no = 38
yes = 48
yes and no = 5
So on balance, there is more support for the strike
Yes
YES
Yes
Yes.
So on balance, there is more support for the strike
About 60% then !?
No.
No
No
No
passtherizla - MemberYes, I agree in principal, but what happened to the pickets of yore?
Private - Private
Pickets - made illegal by thatcher
Yes. Workers have been getting humped over in this country for long enough.
No. (get real, no-one else can get final salery pensions / we're all in this crap etc... * )
* bankers are obviously outside that sphere of reality
No.
No
I have to pay more into my pension and work longer to keep it going (company changed it this year)
Please tell me why I should subsidise yours?
No pay rises here for years, all the while the public sector did and still are, capped yes but that's better than bugger all!
and that was after the redundancy's!
My company's still struggling to break even.
the moneys not there, suck it up, everybody else is feeling it
Really hard to see through all the lies and propaganda in the press though.
I hold the Tory's and Unions with an equal level of disdain btw.
No
No, although it's close.Quick adding up - so far:
no = 38
yes = 48
yes and no = 5
So on balance, there is more support for the strike
Taken as a sample from "Lefty-trackworld"
Yes
for the following reason
My pension is the Local Government Pension scheme (LGPS).you can opt into it or not.
I opted in and pay a contribution every month. At retirement age the LGPS adds another 2/3rds to it. This is done by giving MY money to Investment Bankers who are supposed to invest it. However it turns out they’ve been to busy buying bottles of wine as expensive as my house and snorting white powder off young ladies buttocks for them to care about people’s money.
The moneys not there because of the Bankers nothing to do with the Public Sector
My pension is NOT paid for by everyone’s NI contributions. We are being asked to pay the equivalent of a 3% tax on our pensions. That’s fine if it’s the same for everyone, but its only the Public Sector that’s being asked to contribute.
So you can see why people are a bit cheesed off.
I’ve worked in the Private sector, been self employed and now the Public sector. Every time I’ve opted into a pension or savings.
I earn less than the UK’s average wage.
Sources from the BBC
If Goldman Sachs paid their Tax bill like everyone else has to.......(the sound of piss boiling)
No.
Work in private, GF in public and on strike. Last night political discussion was "interesting".
No.
yes but then again I am on strike
Yes
NO
yes
What strikes?
I take it there's more useless idiocy going on, out there in LoonyVille!
Hahaha! who would have thought, bunch of assholes in charge of our resources and shit is happenin 😯
No
Yes
Yes
Yes!
Yes
Yes
NO
NO
No.
Yes
(although I don't think anything will be achieved)
deleted as this is a yes/no thread
NO
YES
plenty of private sector wages have down not up (especially at the sharp end not director level)
And the unions are one of the few forces with any clout at all arguing that the gap between boardroom pay and ordinary workers pay is unjustified and unsustainable, for public AND private sector workers.
Yes for the following reason
Wait a cotton picking minute, isnt this a yes and no only thread?!
No
NO
Yep.
Just got back from the picket line where passersby on their way to work were overwhelmingly in support.
No
(I work in the public sector)
Yes
Yes
Yes.
For the following reasons:
That you can read in many of the other threads.
very no.
NO
No
very no.
That doesn't count as double you know? 😉
No,
/troll/ Of course the yes's will be in the majority on here - the work shy public workers are all on STW instead of manning the picketlines! /troll/ 😉
Yes. I work in the private sector.
Yes.
NO !