Public Sector Strikes.

[Hehe]

If the government cant afford it, why dont they cut their own wages and pensions? That would go along way to helping the country and gaining support from more people. Insted they cripple the people we need to run the country. Where would we be without these people?

Yeah, they should If they haven't already, which I don't know if they have

And the public sector workers have hardly been crippled Far from it, they've been comparitively well off for so long, they don't want to lose even a tiny portion of that

[Lucas101]

If the government cant afford it, why dont they cut their own wages and pensions? That would go along way to helping the country and gaining support from more people. Insted they cripple the people we need to run the country. Where would we be without these people?

How many politicians are there? How many public workers are there? If the politicians were to cut their wages and benefits it wouldnt make a huge difference. I would say that cutting their wages/benefits would show that the government is still willing to rule for the good of the people, but i think that ship has long sailed.

Strikes are so common in Britain I barely notice when one is going on anymore. I remember railway strike days, mail service strike days, airport personnel strike days etc. as a constant theme of my childhood. Public sector workers here ask for raises, increased benefits etc. all the time. These strikes are on a larger scale, but it still isn't all that shocking.

Right now we are faced with two huge, looming economic problems. Recession and an ageing population. I don't feel that the taxpaying younger generation should have to foot the enormous bill for public sector pensions. They do receive a lot more than private sector employees already. People are living much longer and more money is needed to pay for their retirement. If the older people themselves aren't willing to pay, that saddles young people with that deficit in a time where lots of younger people struggle to get jobs at all. It's not about just "rolling over." The money to support the elderly when they retire has to come from somewhere and either it comes, at least in part from the would-be pensioners themselves, or the younger generation gets stuck supporting them through an extra decade of life. It sounds crass to put it in those terms, but when people approaching retirement age started working there was no way for the govt. to predict how much longer they would live or how few children they would have.

Vaccinations FTW ... all kidding aside we are soon going to have the same issues here in Canada, mainly the young getting taxed to death so that the old can get sponge baths but we are watching this closely to see what is in store for us in ten years ...

[Clara]

I do not support these strike on the whole, i do have certain levels of sympathy for nurses and slightly less for teachers.

But i don't see why the wee wifey that works in a council office as a receptionist should get higher pay, more holidays, better pension and earlier retirement age than the wee wifey working next door in the private sector. These strikes are not to create equality, they are fighting to keep unfair privileges.

[TriGunSK]

Pritty soon it will get worse if "Worse" is a word .
Ireland "Where i am from" Is geting bad soon there will be more then strike's the same in Britain .
It isn't nice to watch T,V and have somebody say "Hay were going to cut your wage's and add a load of Taxe's because we up and now we all have to pay the price and BTW were not taking a pay cut "
Except in all those big word's
People stud up like some people in the UK we would get some where .


I might be ranting now but this may lead to fight's riot's etc

But hay im just an un-educated 15 year old

[RTA]

Pensions and Unions are part of the reason the entire globe is in this economic mess. While I don't have any objection to those striking, one must realize that if the credit ratings of countries like France and Britan are downgraded, people earning these pensions could potentially recieve far less than what their benefits are being cut to now, likely with additional problems (increased unemployment rate, weaker markets & currency, etc).