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Re: Council strike, inflation and living cost

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Originally Posted by roadrunner_0 View Post
as a local govt. worker who voted for the strike, im going to put my 2p in

i dont know where you are getting your figures from furball, but i have worked for durham county council since 2000, and i assure you in that time we have never had a large pay rise, evidenced by the fact that this is our 3rd strike in those 8 years. In those 8 years my place of work has endured budget cut after budget cut, in fact, my department had to make savings of a cool million last year, consequently we lost (iirc) 20k from our programming budget and 12 hours of staff time - yet are still expected to do more work to get more people through the doors so that the budget fairy looks elsewhere next year for its ritual sacrifice on the altar of efficiency.
I'm going to tentatively say that libraries aren't the greatest of priorities for local council spending. Not that it should be that way, of course.


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Originally Posted by roadrunner_0
overall the government are once again in a hole of their own making - they have pissed away funds for years and years, as usual, the people at the top have insane salaries compared to 'the little people' (for instance, im sure that looking down the barrel of a 2.5% pay rise is a lot less of a hardship when you are getting 100k a year, which is what our chief exec is on) and overall, there is no central government leadership to address issues that have been being raised for years now without sucess - hence strike.
I agree with all of this. The Government has saddled the country with a huge amount of debt to pay for its spending, don't even get me started on PFI.

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Originally Posted by roadrunner_0
unfortunately i for one believe that the unions simply dont have the will to pull it off, they will cave before the end of the summer, possibly after another 1 or 2 day strike, after getting us another .2% on top and call it a victory, which it isnt. local government needs a full review of funding, and unfortunately, more funds need to be diverted. Because no matter how they paint it, the problem isnt going to go away
The Government's much more likely to make concessions on stupid employment rights that the unions are also after. If Labour give in to the pay rises that the unions are after then they have even less change of winning the next election.
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