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17 April 2009 | In | Comments (7)Is anyone else getting really agitated by the attitude of the Public Sector
Over the last number of weeks, I have been listening to the back and forth of all sides on this argument. To be perfectly honest it makes my blood boil.
ExperienceXchange.ie and the reason for its existence is living proof of how much the private sector is currently struggling. The live register is swelling towards 400K. Extremely experienced and talented people are being forced the injustice of have to collect the dole once a week. And not one single person of the 400K is made up of any civil servants or public sector worker that have lost there job in the last 12 months. Where is the justice in this?
While this is all going on, the teachers are all on their "jollies" down at their national conferences in Kilkenny, giving the Minsiter for Education abuse over the Pensions Contribution. Let me ask this question. How do they get the time off to go to this conference? Oh yes, that’s right, they are on their 2 week Easter Break!! You have got to be kidding. In the public sector, salaries are being cut by 10 - 20% plus redundancies. yet the public sector have an issue with an average pension levy of 7.5 %.
I do agree with them on one point, that Education spend in the area of class sizes and special needs teachers should not be affected as this will cripple our economy far beyond the current economic crisis.
I feel that this is creating such a division in Irish society between the Private and Public sector. I don’t think I need to go as deep into this as discuss benchmarking, as I feel it is so blatantly obvious that salaries have been dramatically cut in the private sector. One would have to consider, do our civil servants live in the real world or in the clouds?
I came across this blog today which I think makes a huge amount of sense and carries a lot of weight.
@Steven Grant