I never read so much cliched old fashioned outmoded nonsense in my life; the only thing missing was not calling him ' Comrade joejoe'.
You know all the rights you have in your job, holiday pay, the working time directive, Employment Appeal Tribunals, safty standards, redundency pay, protection of migrant workers, etc etc etc,
All won by the left or the trade union movement accross Europe. How quickely you would like to dismiss these things.
Public sector jobs are by and large for the greedy and the lazy, not the enlightened. They are exclusive. Not everyone can be lucky enough to get one. Imagine what would happen if everyone in the country worked for the public sector.
Why then does everyone not have one?? So many greedy and lazy people out there, like you aunt, sister, cousin, friends. Please you make it too easy for me with that kind of mindless diatribe.
The country would be decimated. We are not going to establish a socialist utopia with everyone having a fantastic job with fantastic pay, fantastic 3 month holidays plus fantastic wages and conditions as a small country going alone..
I have argued for public service reform. I believe in the value of having a thriving private sector which can generate wealth with minimun government interference. I believe we should be a low tax high skilled workforce and economy. I dont think that makes me Karl Marx.
The reality is we are in competition with places like Singapore, Hong Kong, Israel etc for investment. Our public service needs to be competitive with the public services of other countries.
According to a recent OECD report our public service does not come out too bad in terms of effeciency. Although it does point towards the need for reform. However a race to the bottom in terms of workers rights be they in the private or public sector does no one any good. Certain principals of equity and fairness need to be kept in mind. It does absolutly no worker any good when we are at each others thoats. Yes point out faults needs for improvements in the public sector but the over the top characterisation of PSWs is unnecessary.
A tirade of mumbo jumbo does not make it end of story I am afraid.
I find the entitlement mentality in the public sector to be disgusting. Why should someone in the public sector be entitled to any more than someone else with a family to feed in the private sector. Wheres the equality and brotherhood/sisterhood there ? I suspect its more a case of 'im allright jack' plus some convenient narrow minded self protecting self biased views.
Workers in the all sectors accross the global village are intitled to fair terms and conditions and to be free from exploitation. All workerss should unite to ensure this is made a reality. This is not socialism it is common sence. Divided people are easily exploited. Ultimately there needs to be a realisation that mindless competition of global capatialism creates winners and loosers. Billions of exploited and empoverished people all over the globe who is going to fight for these peoples rights? Big business? Multinationals? The only thing stopping them from running an even greater muck over these people and countries is the last vestages of certain social and ethical principals which were won by European socialists since the 1st world war.