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Talked to a friend who's in the union in An Post about this at the weekend. The privatisation was coming anyway in 2008 (I think ??), and as they believe that it will take 2.5-3 years to set up another service theyre not bothered with that threat. Im not convinced on those time frames but there ya go.Close it down and put the contract to run a national postal service out to tender
Who would you suggest should be invited to submit tenders? Gama? Irish Ferries? AIB? Or any of the other bastions of private industry who shaft their customers & employees?Purple said:Close it down and put the contract to run a national postal service out to tender.
That would be the solution if we had a competent public service what were able to deal with the private sector without being fleeced. We don't so the solution will be for the taxpayer to bend over and get shafted by the public sector again.
Total job security in a company run for the benefit of its employees. Who were these jokers benchmarked against anyway?
Nothing will change.
As I said,RainyDay said:Who would you suggest should be invited to submit tenders? Gama? Irish Ferries? AIB? Or any of the other bastions of private industry who shaft their customers & employees?
An Post and its ilk make me sick. There are lots of people out there who have to actually justify their pay rises by (gasp!) working harder and better.That would be the solution if we had a competent public service what were able to deal with the private sector without being fleeced. We don't so the solution will be for the taxpayer to bend over and get shafted by the public sector again.
Actually they weren't. Commercial semi-states were excluded from the benchmarking process. But, hey, don't let the truth spoil a good argumentPurple said:Who were these jokers benchmarked against anyway?
Doh!Actually they weren't. Commercial semi-states were excluded from the benchmarking process. But, hey, don't let the truth spoil a good argument
Nice rant, but let's bring some reality to bear. It is just not true to say 'not a word from the unions' in relation to manufacturing jobs. The 'panacea' of private sector just doesn't stand up. We've seen how the private sector PPP approach has added 8% to the costs of building schools (check out last year's C&AG report).Purple said:An Post and its ilk make me sick. There are lots of people out there who have to actually justify their pay rises by (gasp!) working harder and better.
Our airwaves will be filled with union parasites telling the rest of us how "my members" deserve their 70's style work practices (which aren't really 70's style, that's all management lies etc) and big pay hikes. All of which comes out of the pockets of private sector workers, many of who are glad to just have a job. 100 jobs a week going in manufacturing and not a word from the unions but the same jokers want the government to throw more money into their public sector bottomless pit? Jim Larkin never saw the union movements raison detre to keep the public servants in their cocooned world by shafting those at the bottom of the ladder. Sick, sick, sick.
We've seen how the private sector PPP approach has added 8% to the costs of building schools (check out last year's C&AG report).
Just to be more specific - It's the fault of the Govt who decided the policy of using PPP's.umop3p!sdn said:It's the public sector's fault for paying the money - not the private sector's fault for taking it.
So you accept that it's not the fault of the private companies then?RainyDay said:Just to be more specific - It's the fault of the Govt who decided the policy of using PPP's.
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