Brits would sympathise with nurses and doctors, firefighters, and supermarket staff striking, but not barristers, civil servants, or lecturers
Brits would sympathise with nurses and doctors, firefighters, and supermarket staff striking, but not barristers, civil servants, or lecturers
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Until they release Julian Assange, they can all Foxtrot! Oscar!
I sympathies with all of them because I’m not a heartless tory psychopath
Support anyone striking for improved pay and terms and conditions. There’s plenty of money in the world better off in the hands of the workers than funding another dickheads mega yacht.
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Of course a YouGov survey is going to say that Civil Servants shouldn’t strike. It’s founder is currently Chancellor, the CS striking would mean no one to do his work for him.
Most people I’ve spoken to sympathise with the fact that the Civil Service has been stretched to breaking point trying to deliver throughout Brexit, Covid, Ukraine, and now the cost of living crisis.
None of these additional pressures are behind us and yet a fifth of the workforce is being scrapped and graduate intake paused indefinitely? That’s on top of the multiple reports highlighting a culture of toxicity, bullying, and sexism, all coming from the top (Ministers) down?
I certainly wouldn’t oppose them taking action.
I wonder how many of those asked realise that junior barristers start on an average (below minimum wage) salary of £12,200.
Definitely not lecturers.
I’m going out on a limb and going to suggest at least some of this is down to perception and optics. You see the emergency services and health workers in every day life, the others you don’t.
Like when you say court room, you picture high paid solicitors wearing wigs, you don’t think people delivering legal aid to the most vulnerable while earning less than min. wage (yes its that bad for junior’s)
In same respect some are going to either think “DWP” when you talk about civil servants or associate them with our scumbag government because they don’t know better – clearly some near the top are questionable.. but a great many are good dedicated staff, you think getting stuff like passports is bad now? Wait
Lecturers.. I don’t know where that has come from, the actual educators deserve decent pay the problem is those running the places as for profit business not the people teaching
Really disappointed care workers aren’t mentioned in this, they should be up there with health workers, absolutely vital – you’d think having roughly 10k hospital beds at any one time occupied by patients who can’t be safely discharged home due to lack of available care would re-enforce this (especially with hospitals at capacity)
Needless to say I don’t agree with the poll, they are all important roles
One wonders what the generational split on this is.
I imagine many of the older members of the country that never worked in places like the civil service or education still have the insane belief that it’s a super high paid job with infinite perks and an infinite pension at retirement.
Civil servants have such job security that people who don’t have it aren’t going to be overly sympathetic about their pay