Really? The statistics don't bear that out, especially in healthcare.
Really? The statistics don't bear that out, especially in healthcare.Quality of teaching, just like the quality of healthcare is excellent.
No, that's how you close businesses and ruin people's futures. If you want people to be better paid then you train them so that they are more skilled and their labour is worth more. The movement of capital to the developing world over the last 30 years has lifted 4 billion people out of abject poverty. My concern for poor people stretched beyond my national border and people who look like me.
Of course multinational corporations and their owners should pay way more tax but in Ireland "the rich", people who earn very high wages, are already paying massive amounts of tax and carrying the rest of us.
Unions protect the haves from the have-nots and encourage waste and low standards. They encourage protectionism and trade barriers which cause untold suffering around the world. At home they bully and coerce people into submission who have the temerity to speak their own mind.
The Unions in the health sector are the reason people die on trolleys etc. Their leaders have blood on their hands.
They are despicable contemptible self serving parasites, a cancer on Irish society so no, I wouldn't join a Union.
Really? The statistics don't bear that out, especially in healthcare.
I agree. They did a great job 80 years ago when they represented low paid working people. Now they represent the will paid and powerful and gain unjustified benefits at the expense of low paid working people. It's like the last few pages of Animal Farm.Whilst I enjoy your anti-public sector rants, and your hatred of trade unions, I will rest easy.
On your own you won't achieve anything. The Trade Union movement has achieved huge benefits for all Irish workers, including you.
So, annual leave, sick leave, pensions, the five day week, overtime rates, the minimum wage, Bank Holidays, holiday pay, health and safety in the workplace, a range of other stuff that we all take for granted. Vast majority of those gains were achieved in the face of right wing opposition and business leaders, who told us it was unaffordable and would cost jobs.
Have a reda of this.Ireland has room for improvement, but it's doing ok in healthcare outcomes, across a range of disease and illnesses. The public system is very good at primary healthcare management and access to hospitals is reasonable. My experience of the Irish healthcare system, as someone who has worked in NHS and HSE, is that Ireland has a healthcare workforce which is very adaptable, flexible and extremely hard working.
Can things get better? Of course, they can and the unions in Ireland work very closely with govt, (perhaps too closely)
During the financial crisis, public sector workers took significant wage cuts, increased hours, reduced sick pay and reduced holiday entitlement. That was union negotiated and is unprecedented across Europe.