Public Sector Strikes

One of the UK's biggest trade unions says pension reform plans could trigger the biggest wave of industrial action since the General Strike in the 1920s.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13819277


Public Sector workers are essentially being told they will have to work more for their pensions which are, in turn, getting cut. My mum works in the public sector and she is really worried, and whilst she and her colleagues won't strike (due to the nature of what she does) they will only work to book if the strike action goes ahead.

Could be interesting. Who would have thought the Liberal Democrats would possibly oversee the largest strike for almost 100 years?

Who else?

I don't know about your mom's situation, but over here, Europe (especially Greece) and elsewhere, the public sector unions are strangling their governments along with the welfare budget, which is often is almost indistinguishable. In the US, federal union workers can't strike or collective bargain, but they can and have been for decades in the states, and the economic crisis is forcing cutbacks in what's been little more than a money laundering operation for the Democrats and their union pals--funneling tax money to the Democrats with the unions taking their cut.

Even California gov. Brown, a hard core liberal from way back, had to veto the budget this week because the state is perhaps the worst off in the country, due to this and a lot of other socialist (ooooooh, dare I say it) GREED .

Can you keep things on topic please. This is about what is happening in the UK to public sector pensions, nothing to do with your 'socialists' or your extremist right wing nutty views.

how is it the lib dems overseeing ?

it's the torries, they have form for such.

f*** unions.

I strongly suspect slow killing of the public sector. I feel the current government have an agenda to privatise everything. This is just another reason for people to turn their backs on a public sector career.

Not getting the right sort of staff will make services poor and are an excellent opportunity for a government to turn around and say "well it isnt working so lets try privatisation"

Not to mention that he's making stuff up. Federal employees here have not had a pay increase in three years, and the policy of no pay increases has been extended for another two.

Tories and the Lib Dems with the Lib Dems constantly parading themselves on TV talking in favour of the savage attacks on the UK public sector.

I actually think the Lib Dems are worse because at least with the Tories we knew what to expect.

I actually hope that Labour become more liberal and less left-wing. A strong liberal-left party is what I think the country needs and what the progressive majority crave, not a neo-liberal one.

When a strike is about drastic cuts, cuts to pensions or anything else that harms workers, I am all in favor of a strike. Workers need to do what has to be done in order to ensure their wages and pension are not cut or lost. People like firemen and police officers put their lives on the line daily and its not too much to ask for reasonable pay and a decent pension.

I hope it goes alright for you mom.

We have a major strike going on here and government is meeting this week to pass legislation for them to go back to work. I am not going to go off topic but this strike is people being greedy who have it better than most people and wanting more. It has impacted our economy and hopefully it will get back to normal before the end of the month or a lot of seniors are going to be with no money.

When the public sector strikes, we all feel it so I hope it does not come to that for you guys and I hope the workers get what they are entitled to. Their requests seem reasonable to me.