Its the only option. People have lost over 20% in their pay packets since 2010. They have had enough.
Are people asking for “inflation-**busting**” rises? I think most would settle for pay rises that are at least a substantial fraction of inflation right now.
Hands up anyone not in the public sector who got an inflation-busting pay rise?
*promotions don’t count, has to be a year on year pay rise
People generally aren’t asking for inflation busting rises though. They are asking for a fair and decent offer. Given many in the public sector have basically been on a pay freeze for much of the last decade, I’m not surprised they are now up in arms about paltry 1 or 2 percent pay rise offers!
I’m a civil servant. I haven’t had an inflation busting pay rise since 2008. MPs have though.
Cunts.
They wouldn’t need inflation busting pay rises if public sector workers had inflation matching pay rises the past 14 years when there wasn’t an inflation crisis
Inflation busting suggests a 15%+ pay rise
Most unions seem to be asking for inflation matching which isn’t exactly the same thing.
Bet MPs get a massive pay rise at their next review.
That’s one way to call for a general strike, I suppose
Just give us the 5% that Scotland got, not the 3% Sajed Javed said is ‘all he can afford’.
Unless you’re a top earner then you’re entitled to a fair pay rise to match inflation.
Public sector workers will most likely get sod all just like the last pay award.
When inflation is low, wages can’t go up because it will cause inflation. When inflation is *high* wages *still* can’t go up because it will cause inflation.
When *can* wages go up?
then there were more strikes, and lo and behold the truly thick half of the UK, bearing in mind the average IQ is 100, yes, the average, we’re convinced by the Conjob Party that anything socialist was terribly un British. Fucking wake up, it’s an election ploy, same as usual. No doubt there will also be a big paycheck for pensioners being saved up too.
This guy is 37 years old and from what ive been able to find on him, has v little life experience, qualified and worked as a solicitor briefly then straight into politics. What does he know about anything?!
Meanwhile MP’s are planning their own payrise…
When asked why a Treasury representative said “Fuck em, that’s why”
I work in the public sector and one of our big bosses said we don’t need a pay rise cause we get paid with smiles for helping the public. This was said by someone earning in excess of £45k.
I really hope the union gets its strike vote can’t wait to see the fuss kicked up when the civil service strikes.
strike time
UK wages should be about 20-30k higher on average. That was before the cost of the living crisis.
The people of this country are now so poor we can’t cope with high inflation. If wages had grown, we would be able to tackle this crisis without needing pay rises. You cannot suppress wages for a decade and then say sorry you’ve also got to shoulder the worst inflation since the 70s!
Hopefully people strike until the government coughs up, people can’t get any more poor, they Tories have already driven people’s wealth down for 12 years. Any lower and most will fall into poverty or worse.
This country is a fucking joke
Levelling workers up as promised
The government is just laying the groundwork before the official pay recommendations are made. They want the general public to see public sector workers as threatening economic stability… as they do every single year.
It’s not just Tories though. After 2008, New Labour tried to recoup all the losses they made when they assumed most senior doctors played golf instead of working. When senior doctors were paid for the hours they actually worked, they got very large pay rises.
The only way the treasury believes it can support a comprehensive NHS is by paying people less and less every year, and relying on inflation to erode national debt. That current inflation has nothing to do with what individuals are spending, but rather based round scarcity of resources (grain, oil, gas) is a fact the papers fail to tell the public.
Doctors are retiring or cutting down hours. The workforce has huge numbers of vacancies, getting bigger all the time. Lawyers too, never mind nurses, hcas, firefighters, police etc. Sadly, the elite seem keen to inherit a broken society so they can keep their hoardes of gold.
Good thing most are just asking to be paid the value they were being paid on 2008 then. And not inflation busting.
Guess they want more strikes. This is how you’ll get more strikes.
Welcome to Tory Britain.
And yet they wonder why they can’t retain staff and have to pay agency instead….
I wonder if this sentiment will change if the PCS union manages to vote to strike in September?
Any one asked how the local dustmen feel about all this?…
invertebrate jellies
I work for the NHS and we didn’t even get a payrise, now I’m officially on minimum wage.
They wouldn’t get 10% from any party. I kind of understand not wanting to give 10% now bc it would be problematic. The problem is not giving enough increase for decades.
How far are we willing to be squeezed? 14 years of squeezing and still more squeezing to come. Tories squeezing the working people they supposedly champion. Squeezing all the talent out of the public sector. Squeezing our wages until there’s barely enough to cover the basics. Squeezing us into more debt. Squeezing the quality of life right out of us. Squeezing our time and our health and our patience. Squeezing us into worse cars, or squeezing us onto grubby buses and trains. Squeezing us into smaller houses in shabbier neighbourhoods. Squeezing the services that keep us safe and well, and squeezing those that provide them. Squeezing our children into overburdened schools with overburdened teachers. How many are hanging on in quiet desperation? How far are we willing to be squeezed? A little more, and then a little more, it seems.
But the MP’s will get one, don’t worry.
So a pay cut for all then.
We in the public sector have essentially taken a pay cut every year since 2008 at least. And we’re the greedy ones?
Enjoy becoming the canary of the next recession
So they got billions to give to their friends to do absolutely nothing but no money to improve their own workers’ lives?
The tone deaf party will no doubt plead ignorance when the ‘independent’ body recommends MPs get a further payrise to combat cost of living a few months down the line….
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Already got a £2000 rise coming, but I expect they’ll begrudgingly take another £5000-6000 before long, because there is nothing they can do to stop the independent body’s recommendations….
This will be their narrative, asking for higher wages gives you more inflation but just thought I would include the letter they wrote to PM.
Wheres this “high wage high growth” economy ive been hearing so much about then
MPs have had 9 pay rises since 2010.
Remind yourself of that when they complain about workers pushing for fair pay and working conditions.
I mean, I should be thankful, I was given a pay rise by the gov after working through COVID and contracting it twice directly from this.
I was awarded a 1% pay rise – which was about £300… This was followed by the NI increase of 1.25% literally mugging the people who keep the country running off.
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Guess there will be more strikes then.
Its the only option. People have lost over 20% in their pay packets since 2010. They have had enough.
Are people asking for “inflation-**busting**” rises? I think most would settle for pay rises that are at least a substantial fraction of inflation right now.
Hands up anyone not in the public sector who got an inflation-busting pay rise?
*promotions don’t count, has to be a year on year pay rise
People generally aren’t asking for inflation busting rises though. They are asking for a fair and decent offer. Given many in the public sector have basically been on a pay freeze for much of the last decade, I’m not surprised they are now up in arms about paltry 1 or 2 percent pay rise offers!
I’m a civil servant. I haven’t had an inflation busting pay rise since 2008. MPs have though.
Cunts.
They wouldn’t need inflation busting pay rises if public sector workers had inflation matching pay rises the past 14 years when there wasn’t an inflation crisis
Inflation busting suggests a 15%+ pay rise
Most unions seem to be asking for inflation matching which isn’t exactly the same thing.
Bet MPs get a massive pay rise at their next review.
That’s one way to call for a general strike, I suppose
Just give us the 5% that Scotland got, not the 3% Sajed Javed said is ‘all he can afford’.
Unless you’re a top earner then you’re entitled to a fair pay rise to match inflation.
Public sector workers will most likely get sod all just like the last pay award.
When inflation is low, wages can’t go up because it will cause inflation. When inflation is *high* wages *still* can’t go up because it will cause inflation.
When *can* wages go up?
then there were more strikes, and lo and behold the truly thick half of the UK, bearing in mind the average IQ is 100, yes, the average, we’re convinced by the Conjob Party that anything socialist was terribly un British. Fucking wake up, it’s an election ploy, same as usual. No doubt there will also be a big paycheck for pensioners being saved up too.
This guy is 37 years old and from what ive been able to find on him, has v little life experience, qualified and worked as a solicitor briefly then straight into politics. What does he know about anything?!
Meanwhile MP’s are planning their own payrise…
When asked why a Treasury representative said “Fuck em, that’s why”
I work in the public sector and one of our big bosses said we don’t need a pay rise cause we get paid with smiles for helping the public. This was said by someone earning in excess of £45k.
I really hope the union gets its strike vote can’t wait to see the fuss kicked up when the civil service strikes.
strike time
UK wages should be about 20-30k higher on average. That was before the cost of the living crisis.
The people of this country are now so poor we can’t cope with high inflation. If wages had grown, we would be able to tackle this crisis without needing pay rises. You cannot suppress wages for a decade and then say sorry you’ve also got to shoulder the worst inflation since the 70s!
Hopefully people strike until the government coughs up, people can’t get any more poor, they Tories have already driven people’s wealth down for 12 years. Any lower and most will fall into poverty or worse.
This country is a fucking joke
Levelling workers up as promised
The government is just laying the groundwork before the official pay recommendations are made. They want the general public to see public sector workers as threatening economic stability… as they do every single year.
It’s not just Tories though. After 2008, New Labour tried to recoup all the losses they made when they assumed most senior doctors played golf instead of working. When senior doctors were paid for the hours they actually worked, they got very large pay rises.
The only way the treasury believes it can support a comprehensive NHS is by paying people less and less every year, and relying on inflation to erode national debt. That current inflation has nothing to do with what individuals are spending, but rather based round scarcity of resources (grain, oil, gas) is a fact the papers fail to tell the public.
Doctors are retiring or cutting down hours. The workforce has huge numbers of vacancies, getting bigger all the time. Lawyers too, never mind nurses, hcas, firefighters, police etc. Sadly, the elite seem keen to inherit a broken society so they can keep their hoardes of gold.
Good thing most are just asking to be paid the value they were being paid on 2008 then. And not inflation busting.
Guess they want more strikes. This is how you’ll get more strikes.
Welcome to Tory Britain.
And yet they wonder why they can’t retain staff and have to pay agency instead….
I wonder if this sentiment will change if the PCS union manages to vote to strike in September?
Any one asked how the local dustmen feel about all this?…
invertebrate jellies
I work for the NHS and we didn’t even get a payrise, now I’m officially on minimum wage.
They wouldn’t get 10% from any party. I kind of understand not wanting to give 10% now bc it would be problematic. The problem is not giving enough increase for decades.
How far are we willing to be squeezed? 14 years of squeezing and still more squeezing to come. Tories squeezing the working people they supposedly champion. Squeezing all the talent out of the public sector. Squeezing our wages until there’s barely enough to cover the basics. Squeezing us into more debt. Squeezing the quality of life right out of us. Squeezing our time and our health and our patience. Squeezing us into worse cars, or squeezing us onto grubby buses and trains. Squeezing us into smaller houses in shabbier neighbourhoods. Squeezing the services that keep us safe and well, and squeezing those that provide them. Squeezing our children into overburdened schools with overburdened teachers. How many are hanging on in quiet desperation? How far are we willing to be squeezed? A little more, and then a little more, it seems.
But the MP’s will get one, don’t worry.
So a pay cut for all then.
We in the public sector have essentially taken a pay cut every year since 2008 at least. And we’re the greedy ones?
Enjoy becoming the canary of the next recession
So they got billions to give to their friends to do absolutely nothing but no money to improve their own workers’ lives?
The tone deaf party will no doubt plead ignorance when the ‘independent’ body recommends MPs get a further payrise to combat cost of living a few months down the line….
​
Already got a £2000 rise coming, but I expect they’ll begrudgingly take another £5000-6000 before long, because there is nothing they can do to stop the independent body’s recommendations….
That would ruin the whole point of the inflation.
[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-accused-fighting-wrong-27252641](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-accused-fighting-wrong-27252641)
This will be their narrative, asking for higher wages gives you more inflation but just thought I would include the letter they wrote to PM.
Wheres this “high wage high growth” economy ive been hearing so much about then
MPs have had 9 pay rises since 2010.
Remind yourself of that when they complain about workers pushing for fair pay and working conditions.
I mean, I should be thankful, I was given a pay rise by the gov after working through COVID and contracting it twice directly from this.
I was awarded a 1% pay rise – which was about £300… This was followed by the NI increase of 1.25% literally mugging the people who keep the country running off.