Indeed, and that's the same for most people. I do of course understand that people who have trained for public sector work often can't just leave and work for a competitor, so the government do need more 'encouragement' to pay fair wages. I don't have a solution for getting the balance right - making the government (ie, taxpayers) pay what's fair, without employees having enough power to get more than what's fair. Which industries have the most strike power seems quite arbitrary.
Come now, don't be coy with us. I'm sure you're quite irreplaceable.
Oh I'm well aware of that - to compare like with like, most of us are getting a pay cut. But that's what we should expect isn't it (to some extent at least), following Covid and now the war? Should everyone really expect their salary to keep up with inflation right now? That's simply not possible.
And as I said above, I do appreciate that changing jobs is not so easy for many public sector employees.
The pay offers workers in those industries have been getting is offensive, they should have been getting much more. There needs to be a balance between fair increases (in line with the private sector) and rising inflation.
Yeah we are in a pickle. Our self serving government probably don't even care about getting us out of it. That said, I have no confidence we'd have been in a better position if comrade Jezza had won.As I'm sure you know, I believe this has been coming for the last few years, increasingly so since this Government came to power. I don't have the answers anymore, but there is not the slightest sign of a change in direction of the economic disaster that is fast approaching
Also, lots of very ‘poppy eyes’ types tonight, is Stratford Upon Avon twinned with Norfolk?
By a wealthy middle class audience that doesn’t know the half of it, yet they’re all better placed experts to discuss Railways than he is.
