howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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oh dear the great unwashed will be upset.
Guest 904- Registered: 21 Mar 2013
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Lazy buggers - public sector workers have absolutely no concept of the real world. The "changes and cuts to pay, pensions, jobs and working conditions" which they find so reprehensible would be welcomed by many in the private sector.
Sack those that walk out, then replace them with those who want to work.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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good idea
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Fine, it saves the exchequer a day's pay for all the strikers.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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thankfully we still have a right to take industrial action
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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of all public sector workers i have most sympathy with jobcentre staff, rubbish money and having to put up with abusive comments from some of the customers.
i wouldn't have lasted a day in the job .
DT1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 15 Apr 2008
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Agreed Howard, a really tough job.
Unfortunately the 'working conditions' is underemphasised here. I'm all for people questioning all the other reasons for the strike, but in such reports the real issues often get ignored.
Targets are now being set in job centres based on the number of people on benefits in the area, numbers that now need to be reduced. The government are driving these targets and expecting job centre workers to take the burden of the implications. Quite rightly, the workers don't see the targets to be enligned with what is fair - as every job centre has vastly different demographics and social issues.
This is not about people being lazy, but being given unrealistic targets that are not necessarily a reflection of their ability or work ethic.
We could start judging our local MP by comparing local wages to other areas. We could perhaps (ignorantly) decide that he/she was not doing a 'good job' as the average wage in Dover was not as good as that in Royal Tunbridge Wells.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 8.....breath of fresh air............
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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if i can be allowed to expand on what darren has said there are 2 issues as i see it.
a) targets, it has been stated on here many times that the computer in our local job centre advertises work anywhere from lands end to john o 'groats in the local jobs section.
b) tax offices are being closed and work transferred to the job centre staff.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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There up set because the reality's of British working conditions are caching up with them .
The general population have been shat all over in work for years,
Insulated job condition can be a funny old thing .
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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if only
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