What's the standard sentence for assaulting a union official I wonder? It might be worth it.
Although knowing their influence the sentence is probably death.
This is completely inappropriate, with or without smileys. You need to remove it.
Second, there are more reports that the CSO. The IBEC quarterly business survey has far more accurate statistics direct from employers about cuts.
You are joking, right? You believe that an in-house IBEC survey is 'more accurate' than a CSO report! So the CSO which has the best statisticians in the country, and the statutory weight to oblige employers to report is less accurate than some flimsy IBEC yoke? Get off the stage, will ya and get real.
Well that and an addition 200,000 on the live register.
Many of whom came from the public sector - the private sector don't have a monopoly on job losses.
Interesting to see the union brethern take such a blatant partisan approach - openly calling on private sector workers to pay extra taxes to protect pay levels in the PS. They obviously believe that they have the muscle to force the government to impose even more taxes, to avoid cutting their PS members pay.
Very many tens of thousands of private sector employees were made compulsory redundant this year - whilst not one permanent PS employee has suffered the same faith.
Speaking of blatant partisanship, let's look at the full picture. Taxes are not just paid by private sector workers. Taxes are paid by everybody with substantial income. The beauty of the tax system is its general fairness. Those who earn, pay. Those who don't, don't. If you're pay has been cut, you pay less. If your pay is low, you pay nothing. Private sector workers don't have a monopoloy on tax.
Private sector workers don't have a monopoly on job losses. Many fixed-term contract and agency staff in the public sector have already lost their jobs. All other contract staff will lose their jobs as their current contracts expire.
And for the record, the public sector is the one sector where EVERY SINGLE EMPLOYEE has already taken their share of the pain through the pension levy.