Looks as though striking works!
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle7054625.ece
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postal workers will receive a 2 per cent pay rise next month, followed by subsequent increases in 2011 and 2012 of 1.4 per cent and 3.5 per cent, respectively. Staff will receive a lump sum payment of £400 on ratification of the agreement and another £1,000 linked to delivery of workplace changes.
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Details of the deal include an immediate payment of £20.60 a week for delivery staff, equivalent to a 5.9 per cent pay increase, and £8 per week for mail centre staff, equivalent to 2.3 per cent. The working week will be cut by one hour to 39 hours. Maternity pay will increase from 18 to 26 weeks and paternity pay from one to two weeks.
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The civil service strike continues also and things will probably only get worse as unions push back on public service cuts.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...militancy.html
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A new analysis of official statistics shows that the average public sector worker went on strike 15 times as much as the average private sector worker - with 353,000 days lost last year. Ten years ago, only 70,000 days were lost across the public sector.
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Labour policies not only got us in the same kind of financial poop as Greece he got us the same enlarged, militant, laurel cushioned public sector as well. Hail the Socialist Republic of Brownistan
