500,000 Public Sector Workers Culled

tomterm8

I'm not sure why you think he posed with it? I'm not sure what the circumstances were when the picture was taken, but it looks like he was reading it in the back of his car, from the picture. Certainly, the Guardian says it was taken inadvertantly.

angrypirate

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I want my lib dem vote back.

>:-[

Because you geniunely expected them to get into power without a powershare with another party?

ERICS_MUM

tomterm8 wrote: »

I'm not sure why you think he posed with it? I'm not sure what the circumstances were when the picture was taken, but it looks like he was reading it in the back of his car, from the picture. Certainly, the Guardian says it was taken inadvertantly.

inadvertently ? Do they really believe that he didn't know the press photographers were within shot ? The docs should have been in a briefcase to prevent him dropping them when getting in/out of the car etc.

Hauptmann

I suspect there will indeed be a lot of 'natural wastage' and redundancy packages - it will, however, take a lot of spending power out of the economy and paradoxically could hit small and medium sized businesses hard (and hence private sector employment). A lot of my customers are public sector (a lot of teachers and nurses).

nomoreboomandbust

Hauptmann wrote: »

I suspect there will indeed be a lot of 'natural wastage' and redundancy packages - it will, however, take a lot of spending power out of the economy and paradoxically could hit small and medium sized businesses hard (and hence private sector employment). A lot of my customers are public sector (a lot of teachers and nurses).

Well hopefully for you it should not be too much of a hit, if NHS is ringfenced then nurses should remain intact and cannot see them getting rid of many teachers, after all they are "frontline"

Sir_Humphrey

What the public sector haters here should remember is that another 500 000 jobs are predicted to go in the private sector.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

What the public sector haters here should remember is that another 500 000 jobs are predicted to go in the private sector.

I thought estimates came in at between 250,000 - 500,000

ILW

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

What the public sector haters here should remember is that another 500 000 jobs are predicted to go in the private sector.

Difference is that most of the private sector are looking to ways of getting new jobs, imroving their employability, etc, as opposed to going on marches and waving banners about. Sort of sums up the difference in mindset.

tesuhoha

Well I work in the public sector and I've just been told that our jobs are being 're-structured' and I have to re-apply for my own job. I think the re-structured job may be at the minimum wage. I dont earn much anyway and my husband has lost his job. I really don't know whats going on but maybe I am part of this cull. If I have to take redundancy it will be involuntary.

The_White_Horse

tesuhoha wrote: »

Thanks very much. Whats your hourly rate?

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