Exactly my thoughts, but also a go-slow refusing to answer phones work to rule and all the ways to make the govt sore.
I think this mentality is why so many people have issues with the PS. If you did this in a private co you'd get the door and rightly so. No recognition of the customer.
Not true , there was a work to rule in Bank of Ireland in the early nineties and nobody was fired !I think this mentality is why so many people have issues with the PS. If you did this in a private co you'd get the door and rightly so. No recognition of the customer.
(though they seem to think anyone above 50K is living in luxury)
I think there's been a bit of an FIA/FIFA event here. I think it's pretty clear the Government "leaked" the proposal for the unpaid leave in full knowledge of what the public reaction could be. It was used as a lever and put the unions in a no win position.
Banks are now state companies. They were never open to market forces like small businesses as they are licence and regulated by the state and there are massive barriers to entry to the industry.Not true , there was a work to rule in Bank of Ireland in the early nineties and nobody was fired !
Not true , there was a work to rule in Bank of Ireland in the early nineties and nobody was fired !
Banks are now state companies. They were never open to market forces like small businesses as they are licence and regulated by the state and there are massive barriers to entry to the industry.
You are giving the government a lot of credit here! I find it hard to believe they were that cunning. Afterall, incompetence is their call card.I think there's been a bit of an FIA/FIFA event here. I think it's pretty clear the Government "leaked" the proposal for the unpaid leave in full knowledge of what the public reaction could be. It was used as a lever and put the unions in a no win position.
An argument you've made before !Banks are now state companies. They were never open to market forces like small businesses as they are licence and regulated by the state and there are massive barriers to entry to the industry.
An argument you've made before !
Did you perhaps notice that I said the action in question took place in the early nineties , a time when I'm sure you would agree that the Banks were very much private companies only answerable to their shareholders !
The Bank's currently are immensely indebted to the state who nonetheless are minority shareholders.
If they were state owned as you say would AIB have dared to appoint an insider as CEO over the Government's stated opposition - I don't think so.
If AIB were a state company would they have dared pay the first tranche of the 3% due under the National Wage Agreement towards 2016 - I don't think so , a payment that BOI also made much earlier.
Yes.Any other examples?
? Aren't the last 2 PS and the first falls under the same category as BOI?Yes.
AIB
Junior Doctors
Consultants
As for Jack O'Connor, I loved the way he said the Unions weren't powerful in this Country because all the media was State Owned or privately owned right wing and the Unions didn't have access. And yet the same right wing media was giving him 10 minutes to give his thoughts. Not the media's fault he used his time to sound deluded.
As an aside, why are pensioners untouchable but every other recepitant of social welfare faces cuts. There are some very wealthy pensioners out there that could be targeted. Suppose they need to save something for next year and the year after!
Will turn against us? Where have you been living???????? As for thinking bigger. Not a lot of that in evidence over the past few days, particularly from Brian Cowen.
The pensioners are getting away with it now because there are relatively few of them. People retiring in 10/20/30 years time can expect a retirement age of 70 and a means tested OAP.
Also they've a lot of time on their hands. Try cutting free medical care to some old bag on a €70k a year pension and you'll never hear the end of it, better to cut back on children's hospitals as far as they're concerned!
Why all the question marks?
I live in a world where people don't really care about PS wages, unless it directly affects them. Most people are more interested in what the cut to SW will be, grants for farmers, child benefit etc. Most people watch the news on the union talks with a mild interest. If you think the public are angry now, then you ain't seen nothing yet. Wait for the reaction if public servant strikes become common place. This will have direct consequences for all of Irish society, then you'll see some real anger.
The question marks are because I'm frankly amazed that you think the private sector haven't been making their feelings very clear. And how you can seriously state that people don't really care about PS wages well??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????