December and January strikes: Who is striking and what are their pay claims?

[Borchester]

Borchester there was no link to it and no indication as to what is was about. It was just a bar chart with no explanation.

Unlike the detailed chart here:-

Trade in Goods: Fish & shellfish (03): EU: Exports: BOP: CVM: SA - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

For Christ's sake you pathetic old man, there was a legend on both axis.

If you can't get the brown stains washed out of your brain, at least be man enough to admit you fucked up

[papasmurf]

Pappy, you have just admitted that you are unable to read a graph detailing fish exports

Borchester there was no link to it and no indication as to what is was about. It was just a bar chart with no explanation.

Unlike the detailed chart here:-

Trade in Goods: Fish & shellfish (03): EU: Exports: BOP: CVM: SA - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

[Borchester]

Borchester if you were not so ill informed you would know there is no "layabout army," due to the hostile environment towards claimants from government and the DWP.
There is also a massive "churn" of claimants signing off and signing on per month, it is not the same people for years and years on end. Then there is the "Claimant Commitment," which you are obviously ignorant of as well.

Pappy, you have just admitted that you are unable to read a graph detailing fish exports that the average 11 year could manage.

You are not entitled to have an opinion on anything or anybody

[papasmurf]

Or cut the dole or whatever the layabout Army currently call their stipend for sitting on their arses and whining for more.

Admittedly some of them would starve rather than work, but how bad is that?

Borchester if you were not so ill informed you would know there is no "layabout army," due to the hostile environment towards claimants from government and the DWP.
There is also a massive "churn" of claimants signing off and signing on per month, it is not the same people for years and years on end. Then there is the "Claimant Commitment," which you are obviously ignorant of as well.

[Borchester]

19% is fine.
Cut it from other areas of spending.

End diversity money and you can pay them double that pay rise.

If these people are worth the money, there are plenty of others on the state payroll who are not.

Or cut the dole or whatever the layabout Army currently call their stipend for sitting on their arses and whining for more.

Admittedly some of them would starve rather than work, but how bad is that?

[Baff]

Exactly.
Cull the public sector of it's counter productive rich.

This is an area of spending and the economy that the government is directly elected to have control over.
It is beholden on them to exercise that control for the betterment of the wider country and not just the self serving state.

End the corruption.

[papasmurf]

19% is fine.
Cut it from other areas of spending.

Not subsidising the rich would pay for it.

[Baff]

If they asked for tuppence, I would give them it, but 19%? Nah.

19% is fine.
Cut it from other areas of spending.

End diversity money and you can pay them double that pay rise.

If these people are worth the money, there are plenty of others on the state payroll who are not.

[papasmurf]

If they asked for tuppence, I would give them it, but 19%? Nah.

You don't understand negotiating either.

[Barry]

If they asked for tuppence, I would give them it, but 19%? Nah. 

[papasmurf]

They are also bollocks because hardly anyone has been affected by the strikes

They haven't where I live. 

[Borchester]

A pay claim is pre any negotiation, which the Tory government seems totally ignorant of. " Ask for tuppence, take a penny."
Also the main issues in most of the disputes is conditions and or redundancies as well as pay.

They are also bollocks because hardly anyone has been affected by the strikes

[papasmurf]

December and January strikes: Who is striking and what are their pay claims?

Hundreds of thousands of workers have walked out, or threatened to, causing widespread disruption.

Source: December and January strikes: Who is striking and what are their pay claims?

A pay claim is pre any negotiation, which the Tory government seems totally ignorant of. " Ask for tuppence, take a penny."
Also the main issues in most of the disputes is conditions and or redundancies as well as pay.

[johnofgwent]

A handy little pic 

[BBC News]

December and January strikes: Who is striking and what are their pay claims?

Hundreds of thousands of workers have walked out, or threatened to, causing widespread disruption.

Source: December and January strikes: Who is striking and what are their pay claims?