17 Jul
9:37am, 17 Jul 2024
22,687 posts
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rf_fozzy
J2R wrote: "An annoying on teachers pay" - great bit of (I assume) auto-correction there, Fozzy. Yeah. Should have said announcement! |
17 Jul
11:19am, 17 Jul 2024
11,494 posts
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Fields
So Public sector workers will become even more poorer as Labour aren’t prepared to tax the rich.
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17 Jul
11:24am, 17 Jul 2024
25,166 posts
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larkim
No chance you'll stop beating the current government up for things it hasn't actually yet done, Fields? Give 'em a chance, taking a rumour voiced by Fozzy and assuming that that increases public sector wage poverty is perhaps getting ahead of ourselves!
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17 Jul
11:27am, 17 Jul 2024
25,167 posts
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larkim
Here's an actual article about the delay in Schools Week. schoolsweek.co.uk |
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17 Jul
12:02pm, 17 Jul 2024
11,495 posts
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Fields
Wage poverty has been ongoing for decades and it’s been made clear there is no money from a budgetary perspective in my area - so essentially pay rises have to be funded by service cuts
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17 Jul
12:27pm, 17 Jul 2024
25,169 posts
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larkim
In principle, I 100% agree that that's the hand this govt is playing; a clear refusal to increase some of the tax rates and an objective to broadly live within the previous govt's spending envelope. But that doesn't have to mean that public sector wages will remain trapped; there are options they could deploy (find tax rises for areas that haven't been ruled out, find spend savings on non-pay which are cancellable, jiggery pokery with investment spend, etc). So I'd say give them a few months to bed in and make some decisions which you want to hold them to account for. But at least wait for the decisions. I know as well as anyone (given the job I do) that wages in the public sector need addressing. |
17 Jul
12:58pm, 17 Jul 2024
5,909 posts
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paulcook
Votes for 16-year-olds didn't make the cut then.
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17 Jul
1:06pm, 17 Jul 2024
11,496 posts
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Fields
Meet the new boss, same as the one boss
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17 Jul
1:50pm, 17 Jul 2024
25,172 posts
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larkim
...must stop rising to the bait, must stop rising to the bait, must stop rising to the bait....
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17 Jul
1:53pm, 17 Jul 2024
28,545 posts
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richmac
paulcook wrote: Votes for 16-year-olds didn't make the cut then. Thats disappointing altough if its a time thing it's not urgnt till next elections |
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