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Originally Posted by vincerooney
i work for the civil service? i'm in the public sector??? train drivers/bus drivers/government workers would all say they're limited to the uk governments pay increase which has been 0.5% for the last 4 years which is below the rate of inflation. both virgin media and sky both technically non uk companies are trading in a uk environment so know public sector workers are earning less than inflation so therefore know these increases are below inflation. the public sector wage in the north of england is actually higher than majority of peoples wages in the same area.
So yes i do expect VM and Sky to know that hikes in bills are going to hit people hard when they arent getting a pay increase?? But then again we're talking about london based companies.
*sigh* i wish people knew the country existed above north london.
But then again how should i be suprised at a country which blocks funding to a manchester organised olympics as "we feel any major sport event should be held in london" to give yet again a dreadful city more funding. 1996 manchester olympics would have been boss but sadly blocked and denied by a southward obsessed country
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What I was saying was rather than accept price rises and pay freezes was to take control and change employers and TV suppliers. I appreciate that this is easier said than done but I know plenty of people who have left the civil service in the north of England who have found their skills useful outside the civil service and found more interesting jobs. Wage freezes are by no means unique to the public sector.
If enough people cancelled Sky Sports then the company would have to freeze or even bring the price down. But people don't so it has no incentive to do so. And you can't blame the management. If they did not maximise profits by raising prices then the shareholders would change the management and get people in who would raise prices and maximise profits. And the shareholders are typically financial services companies investing peoples' pensions, savings, ISAs and insurance premiums for them. If they don't get the best returns their customers will find financial services companies who do.