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Komst spoedig - de Zomer van Stakingen
Vrijdag, 25 April, 2008
Groot-Brittannië ziet een golf van industriële onrust onder ogen deze zomer aangezien vakbonden, die door Gordon Brown climbdown na de 10p belastingsopstand worden de aangemoedigd, miljoenen leden op stakingsactie stemmen. De arbeiders in lokale regering, de gezondheidsdienst, de Ambtenarij, de Koninklijke Post en zelfs de Sellafield kernplaats konden zich bij leraren in een stijgende confrontatie met de Overheid over loon aansluiten. Er was verder slecht nieuws voor de Eerste Minister aangezien een opiniepeiling aantoonde dat de Conservatieven een 18 puntlood over Arbeid hadden opengesteld. Het onderzoek YouGov zette de Tory op 44 percenten, Arbeid op 26 percenten en de Liberale Democraten op 17 percent. De ministers rond M. Brown, vastbesloten om zijn geslagen gezag te herstellen, waarschuwden vorge nacht unieleiders niet proberen om de moeilijkheden van de Overheid te exploiteren. Maar Teken Serwotka, van PCs, de bovengenoemde unie van de Ambtenarij: De „10p belastings u-Draai heeft aangetoond dat de Overheid zijn mening kan veranderen en het zijn mening op openbare sector moet veranderen betaalt. De mensen op het minimumloon zien het toenemen brandstof, hypotheek en voedselkosten onder ogen en gemoeten een loonsverlaging in reële waarden nemen. De overheid moet snel handelen om te stammen onrust.“ Gisteren voerden de leraren hun eerste nationale staking 21 jaar, 100.000 ambtenaren in Arbeidsagentschappen en voordelenbureaus die over loon en arbeiders op bij Grangemouth olieraffinaderij zijn opgestapt die bereid is om over veranderingen in pensioenen te slaan. De leraren zouden moeten meer data voor stakingsactie vaststellen. Meer dan 1.25 miljoen arbeiders in lokale regering worden gevraagd door hun vakbonden of zij zullen goedkeuren 2.45 percenten aanbieding betalen. De vakbonden, met inbegrip van Eenstemmigheid, GMB en verenigen, geadviseerd dat de aanbieding wordt verworpen. Als hun leden uit de overeenkomst werpen en geen verdere aanvaardbare aanbieding wordt gemaakt zullen zij voor stakingsactie worden gestemd. Meer dan 550.000 gezondheidsarbeiders worden ook gestemd op een driejarige loonsaanbieding die met een 2.75 percentenverhoging van het eerste jaar begint. Volgende maand zullen de ambtenaren in de unie van PCs besluiten of om een stemming voor actie over al hun 200.000 leden in de Ambtenarij te hebben die - yesterday staking verdubbelt. The Royal Mail is locked in talks with the Communication Workers Union and Unite over changes to the pension scheme. Both Royal Mail’s workers and their line managers have already rejected the pension changes in consultative ballots. At Sellafield, engineers and workers are being balloted to reject a 2 per cent pay offer, with another 2 per cent possible only through cost savings. One senior source said: “In unions, as with Labour backbenchers, there is a growing mood of impatience and a desire for change. The pressure that built up during the dark days of Blair is now coming to a head and Brown will squander the opportunity if he doesn’t respond.” Brendan Barber, the TUC General Secretary, said: “Public sector workers cannot be expected to suffer cuts in their living standards with repeated pay rounds that fail to keep up with inflation, particularly when private sector pay is moving ahead and energy and housing costs are soaring. The Government needs public servants to be ambassadors for the undoubted improvements and increased spending in many of our public services. Pay below inflation is not the way to do this.” Pat McFadden, the Cabinet Office minister, issued a warning to unions. “I have been campaigning in Bilston with the Prime Minister today and it’s absolutely clear that he is determined to stick to his task of leading Britain by maintaining economic stability and not being diverted by industrial action. “It’s in the interests of teachers, civil servants and other public sector workers that Britain keeps to its economic course of high employment and low inflation. That’s what the PM is doing.” The YouGov survey for The Daily Telegraph was conducted between Monday and Wednesday. Winter Blues The Winter of Discontent developed from the Government’s failure to impose penalties on Ford Motors after a strike by 60,000 workers led it to defy a 5 per cent pay cap. A “Day of Action” was supported by 1.5 million people, including gravediggers in Liverpool, who continued striking for weeks Sources: Chronicle of the Twentieth Century; Times archives See More:UK NewsHave Your Say: Coming Soon - The Summer of Strikes Please note, only selected comments will be published. Or discuss this report in our new forums This entry was posted on Friday, April 25th, 2008 at 2:34 am and is filed under Activism News, General . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. |
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The simple answer is that the country is going broke what with the war in IRAQ and BROWN when chancellor sold our gold reserves at an all time low , which did not help when he decided to announce before hand that he was going to do so , not a smart move on his part . The government keeps reassuring us that inflation is under control , but what with petrol at 5pounds a gallon and the price of food costing more and more the government are trying too claw back every penny by penalising the working men and women and trying its dam hardest too give as little away as it can by offering the lowest pay rises possible that it thinks that it can get away with , little realising that in their arrogance that they are pushing the ecconomy further and further into a spirraling recession . The ordinary man and woman on the street is suffering they have been pushed too far this time and they will no longer put up with it and who can blame them? . Seems to me that the birds are finaly comming home too roost on this present government and they have no one too blame but themselves! .