Many public workers will be staging a national strike Day on Wednesday - mainly due to the fact that their pensions are not going to deliver what they have previously been promised.
I am in exactly the same situation after paying into a private pension fund with my own money for the past 25 years - but no one is going to come out on strike for me.
What will I be doing - working harder than ever to try and continue to be competitive during these tough economic times.
We all need to work a little harder for a little less to ensure we can all survive and come back stronger once the global economy starts to recover.
I fear it will get tougher during the next 12 months before we can even start to think of a recovery.
All strike action will do is cost the country millions of pounds in lost revenue - and many workers who strike will have it deducted form their wages- so have less money in their own pockets as we approach the most expensive time of the year for many of us.
Vicious circle.
Everyone is having to cut back and make savings and if the funds are not there to provide good pension pay offs further down the road striking will not boost the economy - it will damage it.
2 comments:
I couldn't have put that better myself, Gary. I wouldn't mind, but many of the people that are striking, provide a poor service anyway, some of them don't deserve the jobs they have. Obviously none of them are aware of the crisis the world is in at the moment, and they obviously don't give a monkeys what damage they are doing to the economy, and the extra hardship they are putting on hard working families. They might like to spare a thought for those people who no longer have jobs, as a result of the economic crisis? Some of those people may just have been former work colleague?. No sympathy here, and I guess that I am not in a minority either!!
Very eloquently put Gary. Seems rather a lot of the union leaders involved already have fat pension plans and will not suffer as much as many of us.
The danger is that these irresponsible selfish fools lead the mindless Lemmings the represent towards oblivion taking the rest of us some way down the same road through their actions.
The sooner we get a bit more reality into union power the better. Dare I say "bring back Maggie"? Someone needs to stand up to these fools and find a way to punish them for their selfish insanity!
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