It's a no win situation really, the government are going to pay out pensions based on average wages and not last year of work payment and people are going to be facing wage cuts. While there's quite a few people involved in micky mouse projects, the rest of you who do all the nitty gritty work deserve not to be treated like crap. I can't see how the unions who historically back Labour will take this action too far but will use this to flex their muscles and hope that they (the union leaders) will get lots of money to support the union on re-election of Labour. It'll be like the fire-fighters strikes, it'll get nowhere unless and this is where it should be different, the grass roots workers don't huddle round an oil drum picketing, ignore any union pressure to back down after they've had publicity and a flex of their muscles, and to continue fighting for decent pay. We wouldn't be in this situation if there weren't so many daft organisations about and money being wasted on the wages and admin there. If these workers really wanted to, they could bring this government down before the election and get the wages they deserve and the union leaders might wake up and smell the coffee instead of having alternate agendas.
A bit of people power eh?  |