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Yes. Public sector staff serve the country. It's a despicable act to force them to pay more for less whilst the private sector (who got us into this mess) remains unregulated.
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
NO
No - in general, but, as a last resort / expression of exasperation:
Yes
Yes
On balance, No
No. (Wife's a lecturer - they've closed the college, kinda defeats the object)
In general though: Yes
Yes - and seeing as others have commented......
I don't work in the public sector (I do work for a charity though)
This latest Autumn Statement is an absolute disgrace - it's quite clear that this government intends for the poor and ordinary workers to take the brunt of our current financial problems, while the most well off get away scot free.
Yes
Yes yes yes.
yes.
NO
Yes
I work in the private sector and have seen too many people get ****ed over without a whimper - it's good to see a stand being taken.
yes
mrs has worked for the council for 28yrs.
NO
No
NO
yes
The 'NO' crowd are all very shouty with their caps locks on aren't they?
YES.
Dogbert - it's not a 'free day off' - you don't get paid if you strike (at least not in my NHS Health Board you don't).
DJ - self-employed public sector worker, in Public Health within the NHS but the Welsh Government pay me (oh yes it is complicated).
yes
Rusty Spanner - Member
The 'NO' crowd are all very shouty with their caps locks on aren't they?
Because the "Yes" crowd are greedy and they have never had it so good.
NO
No
Well, a picture paints a thousand words as they say, so
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Well actually it just sez 'yes'. 😐 And a little monster thingy. What does it even [i]mean[/i]?
Yes
No. There's not a lot of spare money around. So MPs to set an example and take a paycut.
Interestingly I know a fair few council workers indirectly who'll be working today and are rather annoyed at the majority of the staff in the unions who're running around in the days leading up to this saying "what are you doing on your day off, it's nice to have a holiday isn't it". Seems to me there's plenty of screwed up thinking going on.
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. There's not a lot of spare money around.
There's plenty of spare money around, it's just that more and more of it goes into the hands of fewer and fewer people every day - the unions are one of the only forces left in society that can counteract that in any way at all.
Yes..
NO
No, but on the other hand, yes...
On the one hand I think they should be grateful they are so much better off than the rest of us but on the other, I keep thinking of:
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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... 🙄