you know fuck all about economics
Would a wage/price spiral cause inflation to run out of control?
Treasury officials’ fear that rising pay in pursuit of rising prices will create a vicious circle may be unjustifiedwww.theguardian.com
Which word is giving you trouble?
The aim of the Labour Party is to get into govenrment (“party of Government”), they are not a protest group or a niche party, as such they should aim to attract as many people as possible to vote for them.
More people think Labour have been too supportive of the strikes than too negative. Therefore the correct position, considering their aim of attracting voters, is to be more skeptical of the strikes.
Brighton, and you it seems, are in a very small minority of people who think Labour have been too negative. However electoral politics being what it is means that you won’t be catered to by a party of government as you are a minority. You are also likely to not vote Tory and live somewhere that isn’t a target seat.
How do you change employer in a market with only one employer (I.e. public sector or similar).
So if it’s beyond control because of the Ukrain thing then the arguments against pay increases is surely diminished.
Like most people (except the wealthy who continue to get inflation busting richer) in real terms I’m earning less now than I was 10 years ago. My pay packet doesn’t say that but the reality is I have far less expendable income than I did a decade ago and that diminished pot doesn’t go as far due to price increases. Nothing in my circumstances has changed in that time either.
I think the average amongst working and middle class is 19% worse of in real terms than they were a decade ago, while the wealthiest get richer. It’s stagnating growth and the economy. What’s needed is not a bigger money pot but a fairer distribution of wealth. Something as simple as reversing the tax hikes for the average joe and increasing taxes on the wealthiest would help address that. Instead at a time when we’re seeing the biggest drops in living standards, expendable income etc we’re also being lumbered with the biggest tax burdens in generations. No wonder the country is spiralling with no one at the wheel.
Move into the private sector ... but then you know this of course and are being mischievous ... and the reason you wont do this is because actually you know how well off you are in real terms with pension rights etc.
Political parties are buses, not taxis. You pick the one that’s coming along and gets you closest to your destination.
My pension in the public sector is worse than the one I have from the private sector.
I work in the private sector and have a private pension so not sure what you’re on about. Who are the private London Underground operators?
People working in the public sector make a greater contribution to their own pension than most working in the private sector, the take home pay differential is big but there is no way the overall package in the public sector is better. Pay in the public sector has fallen in real terms over the last 15 years and with that so have pension values.
I think it was 2009 under Labour that the civil service changed from final salary to career average pension.
Wages is not even a driving force in price rises. It’s the same thing that effects everything else, higher prices of raw materials, higher prices in fuel which is then leading to higher prices in shipping, rinse and repeat. Try getting a container of something from Asia, it’s at least 5 times the cost it was 18months-2 years ago if not more. No one is earning 5 times what they were earning 2 years ago. The average pay rise over the last 12 months is 4.8% and even that figure is misleading because most public sector workers have had far less (my wife for instance hasn’t had a pay rise in over a decade because she’s already on the highest grade for her job in the public sector), most working class people won’t have had that either, the figures get skewed by those at the top getting massive pay rises and massive bonuses.
Teachers have had such a body for 30 years and it was in fact put forward by the unions
And they're vital in making sure at the very least we don't end up back there.
If you let companies get rid of employees, not give those left pay rises and increase their workload to make more profit then that's where we end up. And that's a possibility if you have a government that constantly demonises and criminalises union activity and strikes.
Waste collectors do an important job. So do train drivers.
I think I'd notice them not doing anything long before a bunch of self-important arseholes stopped acting like schoolchildren shouting at each other in a fancy old building before writing down some bullshit on goatskin that they have no intention of following themselves.
And how often are these actually 'independent'? It's heavily govt influenced under the veneer of independent.
But inflation is running at 9% so you're saying that they should accept a real terms pay cut after years of wage stagnation?
Except the only bus that gets to the destination is the blue bus because all the other routes don't get enough passengers to make them viable services.
I think you missed off the biggest cause of price rises - greed for higher profit margins.
I did, like many teachers who could earn more and have less stress in the private sector.
And that’s why we have a shortage of decent STEM teachers.
That’s because they send you the wrong way, charge more and the driver walks off on strike halfway through the Journey as he decides 3 GCSE’s make him a skilled worker
Because they're not self-important arseholes.
Who would empty your bins if everyone decided it was below them?
My bins are being emptied every week what are you on about - they aren’t even on strike are they?
There is if you’re a billionaire or mates with the current government for everyone else no I agree
So instead they get a bus that's ageing and has had maintenance skipped on it, where everything has been stripped back to the bare minimum and ideally want you to bring your own seat if they could get away with it, travelling on old routes that have been shown inadequate for the journey for a long time. All for an extortionate price to get on the bus, then get charged per mile and charged to get off while the bus driver looks down on you and calls you a pleb because his dad got him the job through a mate.
Boarding that bus has done fine for me - just laid out a quarter of a million on a second home mate paid cash and I come from a council house - work harder and stop being bitter
But why are those people emptying your bins rather than doing something else that pays more?
The fact is if you take your argument to it's logical conclusion of everyone striving to get better jobs either through intelligence or hard work, there will be no-one left to do the actual jobs that make society function on a day to day basis.
At which case you're left with offering them massive pay increases to get them to do those jobs, because they still need to be done.
What’s not true about the rich getting sigmicksnlfy richer
The government defrauding the public during the pandemic to give contracts to those that they work and live closely with
And everyone else paying the penalty??
