Council Workers Pay Strike
July 16, 2008
Our public services are seeing the biggest strike campaign in years, schools have been forced to close and many services are unavailable. Unison expects 600,000 British workers to join in the 48 hour strike which began last night.
The unions are saying that their near 2.5% pay rise offer is actually a pay cut if they took inflation into account. They are hoping to get 6% once the negotiations have taken place.
Having worked at a couple of councils during my student temping era, I know that very little work actually goes on there. Pretty much all staff are entitled to flexi-time, which means that nobody is there after 4pm on a Friday. Council employees will find it far easier than private firm employees to go on training courses and gain qualifications at the cost of the tax payer.
But above all and I really do think that the following is the worst of all council employee traits (and I know that I cannot pigeon hole all staff here, but there is a definite group) those that are complete ‘job worths’. They don’t want to help you and if you ask them to actually do their job they think that it’s the biggest injustice ever! Not only this, but they can’t think for themselves. They cannot analyse a situations and decide the best course of action. For these job worths can only adhere to policies, rules and protocall even if it is the hardest, most difficult and inefficient way of doing something.
Of course, there are those out there who do a good job and I am not taking anything away from them. I just wish that someone would give the job worths a good kick up their arse.
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