Another public sector pay outrage

ruggedtoast

Under this shameful coalition of venal money grabbing gloaters. Fresh from voting themselves a 10% pay increase or whatever it was, they give another pay cut to the backbone of the nation.

Hard working public sector workers, workers like me, to get a measly 1% increase, half that of inflation, again.

This is another insult to the working man by toff boy Cameron and his grinning banker mates and it will not go unanswered.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/13/unions-threaten-strike-action-nhs-pay-settlement-unite-gmb

The GMB, which represents 30,000 NHS staff, ranging from paramedics to community nurses, said it too would ballot its members over an offer it described as "a personal insult" to the workforce.

"GMB members will not stand aside whilst the government makes such direct attacks on their pay and conditions," said Rehana Azam, the union's national officer for the NHS. "GMB will immediately begin making arrangements to consult members who will be asked to vote in a consultative ballot to decide the next steps in this dispute."

Outrage

Our world class public sector is being shamed by 3rd world rates of pay. The country is behind us and we will not be cowed by effulgent banker bonusing effete cheats.

Rinoa

Still well paid employment and an unbelievably generous pension.

And you still have time to post on MSE all day long.

wotsthat

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Hard working public sector workers, workers like me, to get a measly 1% increase, half that of inflation, again.

You must be in the less than 50% that aren't getting a 3% increment.

They're like a pay rise but Graham has forbade them being called a pay rise.

lindsaygalaxy

I agree with you it is awful, but they don't have to worry as when they need medical care they will have it provided by a private company. I cannot believe anyone thinks that nurses etc should not get a pay rise with inflation after a 2 year freeze. The public moan about the public service yet they all rely on them right from birth. Maybe we should go to a system like abroad where everyone has to pay for services from a doctors appointment to school and it would all be different.


Oh, and I don't have a pension because I cant afford to pay in to one while I am still paying off my degree which I needed for my job in the public sector.

antrobus

ruggedtoast wrote: »

....Our world class public sector....

An estimated 400-1,200 patients died as a result of poor care over the 50 months between January 2005 and March 2009 at Stafford hospital, a small district general hospital in Staffordshire

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/06/mid-staffs-hospital-scandal-guide

michaels

Median public sector pay is only 35% higher than median private sector pay (before considering the extra holidays or the gold plated pensions)

50% of workers will get 'scale increments' of circa 3%

There is no money to fund NHS increases with the budget frozen in real terms (and don't forget there is still a 100bn deficit each year so borrowing more is not an option) so any increases in pay means fewer operations.

In the run up to the election of course the nation will be blackmailed with strike threats.

lindsaygalaxy

wotsthat wrote: »

You must be in the less than 50% that aren't getting a 3% increment.

They're like a pay rise but Graham has forbade them being called a pay rise.

There are bands put in place for public sector jobs to start people at a lower salary for the job until they gain more experience, skills and take on more responsibilities. They do not go on forever, are based on performance and eventually take you to pay at the level the job is supposed to be based on.

michaels

lindsaygalaxy wrote: »

I cannot believe anyone thinks that nurses etc should not get a pay rise with inflation after a 2 year freeze.

I agree, but not just nurses, everyone in the whole country, everyone in the whole world, deserves to be paid more and it is all the govts fault...and the bankers.

Yorkie1

What slightly irritates me in principle, is that when the MPs' salaries / pensions were being reviewed, the Gov't said it was bound to accept the recommendations of the independent salary review body.

Now that it appears that an independent salary review body has made recommendations on NHS pay, the MPs/ Gov't find themselves strangely flexible in whether they are bound by it.

I think the pay deal is probably the best that can be achieved / offered by the NHS; it's just the apparent hypocrisy between the 2 situations within a matter of months.

lindsaygalaxy

After their 9% pay rise they probably can't afford to pay nurses etc extra.

Nikkster

Not everyone in the private sector is getting a payrise this year either. and they experience the same inflation on costs of living....