Gromit
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Minutes of the PCS union conference were released today.
A motion was passed to pressure the top civil servants to forego their bonuses.
So that's one union that is already doing what you ask.
Should the public sector be subject to economic reality?
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Minutes of the PCS union conference were released today.
A motion was passed to pressure the top civil servants to forego their bonuses.
So that's one union that is already doing what you ask.
Good. But its still not a pay cut and some of those people should be having their pay cut...Along with GPs,Judges and others milking the public purse.
http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/7511
THE BATTLE lines are being drawn in the public sector. Chancellor Alistair Darling has warned of a 'tight squeeze' on the pay of six million public sector workers and a further 'efficiency drive' this summer.
Steve Bundred, chief executive of the government's Audit Commission, wrote in The Observer that he hoped £5 billion or more would be saved by reducing public sector workers' pay. Job cuts and a pay freeze are the government's plans for the future of public services. NANCY TAAFFE, a trade union activist in Waltham Forest, says it is time to fight back.
THE BATTLE lines are being drawn in the public sector. Chancellor Alistair Darling has warned of a 'tight squeeze' on the pay of six million public sector workers and a further 'efficiency drive' this summer.
Steve Bundred, chief executive of the government's Audit Commission, wrote in The Observer that he hoped £5 billion or more would be saved by reducing public sector workers' pay. Job cuts and a pay freeze are the government's plans for the future of public services. NANCY TAAFFE, a trade union activist in Waltham Forest, says it is time to fight back.
Pay cuts? Start with fat cat Steve Bundred's £212k
By Kevin Maguire Daily Mirror 8/07/2009
Public sector fat cat Steve Bundred is an overpaid quango chief with a big salary and bigger mouth.
Blundering Bundred's living in an ivory tower if he thinks it would be "painfree" to deny six million binmen, dinner ladies, nurses, teachers, council workers and civil servants a pay rise this year.
Prices rising at two or 3% might be loose change to an overpaid pen-pusher on £212,000 with another £36,000 slipped into his pension pot.
But every penny counts to the teaching assistant keeping unruly kids under control for as little as £6 per hour or the hospital cook paid just £6.77 for every 60 minutes hard labour in a hot, noisy kitchen.
Punishing ordinary workers when banksters collapsed the economy - particularly when obscene bonuses are back in the City - is the politics of inverted snobbery.
I've got a better idea for Bundred, chief executive of an Audit Commission charged with getting better value for every public pound spent.
No one in the public sector has a more onerous, stressful or important job than the Prime Minister. Gordon Brown's on £192,414 a year yet Bundred's getting £212,000.
So I rang the Audit Commission to suggest its boss should put his money where is mouth is.
If Bundred's so eager to reduce the public debt, why doesn't he lead by example and volunteer a £19,587 personal saving? That would leave him on £192,413 - one pound less than Brown - to continue putting an expensively shod foot in his mouth whenever he opens it.
The silence from his office said it all.
To advocate across-the board freezes and restraint, hitting the lowly paid maternity visitor as hard as the high earning mandarin, is grotesquely unfair. Bundred sounded as if he'd bought an urban myth - that all wages in the private sector are frozen so public pay should be frozen too.
Experts found two-thirds of private groups received rises this year, though private increases average 2.5% against 3.3% public awards.
And it makes no economic sense in a recession to throw public jobs on the unemployment pile.
Chancellor Alistair Darling will undoubtedly be tough on public pay. But he should be toughest on high earners.
Upwards of 200 public fat cats, including lippy Bundred, earn more than the PM.
Four - at the Royal Mail, Network Rail, Channel Four and BNFL - are millionaires every year. New RBS boss Stephen Hester, at the helm of a bank 70% publicly owned, could earn £9.3million.
Bundred's guilty of aiming at the wrong targets.
If he was paid less, he'd feel the pain soon enough of a falling income.
No one in the public sector should be paid more than Brown's £192,414.
And I know nearly six million people who can only dream of a salary a fraction of that.
By Kevin Maguire Daily Mirror 8/07/2009
Public sector fat cat Steve Bundred is an overpaid quango chief with a big salary and bigger mouth.
Blundering Bundred's living in an ivory tower if he thinks it would be "painfree" to deny six million binmen, dinner ladies, nurses, teachers, council workers and civil servants a pay rise this year.
Prices rising at two or 3% might be loose change to an overpaid pen-pusher on £212,000 with another £36,000 slipped into his pension pot.
But every penny counts to the teaching assistant keeping unruly kids under control for as little as £6 per hour or the hospital cook paid just £6.77 for every 60 minutes hard labour in a hot, noisy kitchen.
Punishing ordinary workers when banksters collapsed the economy - particularly when obscene bonuses are back in the City - is the politics of inverted snobbery.
I've got a better idea for Bundred, chief executive of an Audit Commission charged with getting better value for every public pound spent.
No one in the public sector has a more onerous, stressful or important job than the Prime Minister. Gordon Brown's on £192,414 a year yet Bundred's getting £212,000.
So I rang the Audit Commission to suggest its boss should put his money where is mouth is.
If Bundred's so eager to reduce the public debt, why doesn't he lead by example and volunteer a £19,587 personal saving? That would leave him on £192,413 - one pound less than Brown - to continue putting an expensively shod foot in his mouth whenever he opens it.
The silence from his office said it all.
To advocate across-the board freezes and restraint, hitting the lowly paid maternity visitor as hard as the high earning mandarin, is grotesquely unfair. Bundred sounded as if he'd bought an urban myth - that all wages in the private sector are frozen so public pay should be frozen too.
Experts found two-thirds of private groups received rises this year, though private increases average 2.5% against 3.3% public awards.
And it makes no economic sense in a recession to throw public jobs on the unemployment pile.
Chancellor Alistair Darling will undoubtedly be tough on public pay. But he should be toughest on high earners.
Upwards of 200 public fat cats, including lippy Bundred, earn more than the PM.
Four - at the Royal Mail, Network Rail, Channel Four and BNFL - are millionaires every year. New RBS boss Stephen Hester, at the helm of a bank 70% publicly owned, could earn £9.3million.
Bundred's guilty of aiming at the wrong targets.
If he was paid less, he'd feel the pain soon enough of a falling income.
No one in the public sector should be paid more than Brown's £192,414.
And I know nearly six million people who can only dream of a salary a fraction of that.
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Audit commison - an independent body? I was going to start a thread on this the other day asking for examples of other independent bodies -the civil service drawing up £20 billion worth of cuts unasked for example.
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