Passport Strikers get €1.74m overtime pay to clear passport backlog!

There's more of this sort of crap coming out every day:

http://www.independent.ie/national-...me-pay-to-clear-passport-backlog-2368704.html

And what's worse is that we are all being screwed to pay for it.

"During 2010, the printing machine in Molesworth St was damaged due to flooding and all production had to be done at our facility at Balbriggan," the spokesman told the Irish Independent.

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These things happen, not always avoidable.

Strikers get €1.74m overtime pay to clear passport backlog

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PASSPORT office workers who caused chaos during their controversial work-to-rule action

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There a huge difference between a strike and work to rule.
So which is it?

I wonder if the article gives the full picture. Was there any reduction in overtime payments for the duration of the work-to-rule?

work-to-rulers doesn't sound right so calling them strikers is easier! innaccurate but it is the Indo

Complainer said:

I wonder if the article gives the full picture. Was there any reduction in overtime payments for the duration of the work-to-rule?

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Good question

Also, was there a reduction in normal pay during the work-to-rule?

This bit of creative maths made me snigger somewhat.

However, applications also soared as potential travellers worried that it would take many months for their passport to be processed as a direct result of action taken by the Civil Public and Services Union (CPSU). Last year an average of 11,144 passports were processed each week -- but at one stage this year, 4,000 applications were received daily.

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11K was the average the previous year. This is an average value so it's probably fair to say some weeks there were 6K, others 16K.

Receiving 4K a day. Well for a 5 day week that works out at 20K for the week. Certainly above the average but probably not that much above the peak week a year previously. Except it's not 20K it's 4K for 1 particular day. There's absolutely no reason reason to believe this number is out of the ordinary or that the weekly figure for that was 4K x 5. My guess would be this is the figure for the Monday and then the rest of the days trail off - down to maybe 16K or something in total.

There was a very long thread about this at the time of the WTR. The wurkers were unhappy about taking a reduction in their pay due to Income levy, etc, they asked for a pay rise and were refused. So, their union came up with a plan to WTR, not strike, thereby being paid normally. It was predicted at the time that they would have to be paid overtime in order to clear the backlog and that is what happened. The result is they all got extra pay, which is what they asked for in the first place. Simple. What a great country we live in.