I feel like if you ask anyone in the country they’d be up for it right now, it’s really only a tiny minority who are doing OK.
Government won’t be able to claim that lives could be lost due to the lack of a prompt response by emergency services this time, after what they have done to ambulance wait times.
the tale of the tape :
Bus bin barristers baggage handlers teachers doctors nurses civil service train workers dock workers (Felixstowe) planes royal mail BT workers firefighters police
Can they legally strike?
Thankfully Truss is on a union bashing mission. We don’t need another relatively well paid part of the public sector that benefits from outdated and generous terms to be holding the country to ransom
I’m a Firefighter. I’ve been in the job for 16 years and between 2009 and 2021 firefighters’ real pay has been cut by 12%, or nearly £4,000.
I was honoured to be serving as a “key worker” during COVID and I’m proud of the emergencies I’ve responded to over the course of my career. The people I work with enjoy their work and for most of us is a a vocation, not just a job.
I personally have absorbed the above pay-cut during “austerity“ rather than pursuing something lucrative in the private sector, because I feel like I’m part of something meaningful.
But when firefighters, nurses, teachers or care workers etc ask for more money, quite often the response is “but what about the public safety, patients, children”. If we simply went for another job to pursue a pay increase, that same guilt trip isn’t levelled. It’s understood that it’s only a job.
We are sometimes (quite rightly) expected to put the people we serve first, whilst the people with the purse strings don’t.
The question is, how valuable is the service being provided? Do you think that the people who clean your streets, teach your children, tend to the sick and care for the vulnerable should be hit in the pockets for 13 consecutive years? Hit so hard that some are forced to seeking hardship fund support and charitable handouts to get by?
After 12 years of pay cuts what do you expect
Ok note to future-self: 1) support the strikes, 2) don’t be on fire.
So of there on strike who’s going to deal with the fires
The army isn’t big enough anymore and most of its frontline personal are deployed in foreign country’s
Strikes will come right before the inevitable riots and fires happen. You heard it here first
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All jumping on the bandwagon now
I feel like if you ask anyone in the country they’d be up for it right now, it’s really only a tiny minority who are doing OK.
Government won’t be able to claim that lives could be lost due to the lack of a prompt response by emergency services this time, after what they have done to ambulance wait times.
the tale of the tape :
Bus bin barristers baggage handlers teachers doctors nurses civil service train workers dock workers (Felixstowe) planes royal mail BT workers firefighters police
Can they legally strike?
Thankfully Truss is on a union bashing mission. We don’t need another relatively well paid part of the public sector that benefits from outdated and generous terms to be holding the country to ransom
I’m a Firefighter. I’ve been in the job for 16 years and between 2009 and 2021 firefighters’ real pay has been cut by 12%, or nearly £4,000.
I was honoured to be serving as a “key worker” during COVID and I’m proud of the emergencies I’ve responded to over the course of my career. The people I work with enjoy their work and for most of us is a a vocation, not just a job.
I personally have absorbed the above pay-cut during “austerity“ rather than pursuing something lucrative in the private sector, because I feel like I’m part of something meaningful.
But when firefighters, nurses, teachers or care workers etc ask for more money, quite often the response is “but what about the public safety, patients, children”. If we simply went for another job to pursue a pay increase, that same guilt trip isn’t levelled. It’s understood that it’s only a job.
We are sometimes (quite rightly) expected to put the people we serve first, whilst the people with the purse strings don’t.
The question is, how valuable is the service being provided? Do you think that the people who clean your streets, teach your children, tend to the sick and care for the vulnerable should be hit in the pockets for 13 consecutive years? Hit so hard that some are forced to seeking hardship fund support and charitable handouts to get by?
After 12 years of pay cuts what do you expect
Ok note to future-self: 1) support the strikes, 2) don’t be on fire.
So of there on strike who’s going to deal with the fires
The army isn’t big enough anymore and most of its frontline personal are deployed in foreign country’s
Strikes will come right before the inevitable riots and fires happen. You heard it here first
At least people might keep warm this winter…