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Re: Media "myths" that get on your nerves
THere is so much fiction on this thread, it is hard to know where to start, or even to decide if it is worth bothering, but here we go.
1) The CSO earnings data including overtime, bonuses and irregular earnings shows increases in the average hourly earnings in Q1 2009 for industry, manufacturing, utilities and financial intermediation. [Financial intermediation is showing a year-on-year decrease]. See [broken link removed]
2) The pension levy is a very real pay cut across the entire public sector. It has only the most tenuous of connections with pension. It is called a pension levy simply as that was the vehicle that allowed it to be legally imposed. Those who get no public sector pension pay the levy.
3) Many public sector jobs have been lost. Contract and temporary staff are all being cut off as their contracts expire. Retiring staff are not being replaced. The private sector does not have a monopoly on the misery of job losses.
THere is so much fiction on this thread, it is hard to know where to start, or even to decide if it is worth bothering, but here we go.
1) The CSO earnings data including overtime, bonuses and irregular earnings shows increases in the average hourly earnings in Q1 2009 for industry, manufacturing, utilities and financial intermediation. [Financial intermediation is showing a year-on-year decrease]. See [broken link removed]
2) The pension levy is a very real pay cut across the entire public sector. It has only the most tenuous of connections with pension. It is called a pension levy simply as that was the vehicle that allowed it to be legally imposed. Those who get no public sector pension pay the levy.
3) Many public sector jobs have been lost. Contract and temporary staff are all being cut off as their contracts expire. Retiring staff are not being replaced. The private sector does not have a monopoly on the misery of job losses.