Do you support the RMT?

WestGorton said:
Public sector workers are not actually as fed up of lack of money but the overwhelming workload. That is my opinion. The NHS is at the epicentre of this. I don't know the in and out of every dispute but at least ordinary people are finding a bit of a voice.
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People in the private sector suffer just as much if not more than the public sector. No sick pay and can’t remember the last time I had a pay rise and told if you don’t like it fuck off someone else will do the job . Managers in every sector now has a total lack of respect for their workforce. Royal Mail will go out of business at this rate and nobody will give a shit, our post ends up in every house on the estate bar ours,it’s not rocket science reading a fucking envelope surely?
 
bluethrunthru said:
And your issue with that is.... ? Its no longer the 1970's you know the world of work has changed - its fine save £60k a year then get one of these a year - makes perfect financial sense

www.bbc.co.uk

Sexual harassment: Woman gets £90k after bottom slapped at work

The woman, who settled the case, said her employer also accused her of dressing provocatively.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Do you really need a diversity officer in order to tell people not to go round the office smacking people on the arse?

Tend to think you don’t.
 
Blue Maverick said:
“Modernistaion “ is another word for cuts, I’m sure it’s needed as they need to employ a diversity officer on about £60k a year!
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Another interesting point to this is that yes modernisation = cuts so if getting rid of ticket staff and cleaners makes trains more efficient and cheaper then why has the explosion in self service checkouts in supermarkets I have seen this year meaning fewer cashiers not driven down prices in the shops ... thats the modernisation bullshit right there
 
bluethrunthru said:
Just watching Sarah Vine totally mis-representing the issues in the NHS on SKY News papers review. She brings forward the concept that an agency nurse to fill a shift can cost £1.5k and a Doctor up to £5k - she blame management and says it needs a root and branch reform.

Now let us consider that situation - as an NHS manager you are two nurses and one doctor short of fulfilling a legal requirement for a minimum service in s a dept on a shift because the NHS Trust cannot recruit. What do you do? All you can do is recruit bank/agency staff to backfill. That costs what it costs - its not NHS management that is at fault - its a lack of recruitment that is the core but the vile Vine is pushing her paymasters agenda that its NHS management that needs cutting.

Everywhere I have worked a management cull has never worked out well - upper management punch down - they aren't going to do more work as they worked hard to get where they are in their views so the missing layer of middle management means lower management get picked on and they in turn look down. End of the day the stressed NHS staff cannot be asked to fill in for sacked ward management
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You have to ask why is it that the NHS cannot provide enough people to fill a shift but an agency can? Either the agency is paying the nurses/doctors more with better conditions or they're somehow godlike in their recruitment abilities vs NHS recruitment (which is very unlikely).

I don't understand why the government isn't looking for ways to defeat the need for agency work if it's costing this amount of money. I also don't understand why a pay-rise is unaffordable but imported expensive agency work is. It's these sort of stupidities that really are the reason why the NHS is falling apart and it seems no-one is accountable for it.

With public money and large scale organisations it's clearly just a cycle of feeding at the trough because as demand goes up agencies will just increase their charging rates. If the NHS is desperate then they know they'll pay it, it's easy money. In your example of £5k for a doctor to cover a single shift, what's that, 12hrs at £420ph??? It's just completely mental and that rate is well into footballer wage territory which shows how much these agencies are clawing in.

It's the same at my place though. I work for a very large UK company and our local management wanted to build a shower area in the toilets for cyclists in our office. They were quoted £10,000 for something that should cost say £1,000 at best? I'd of told them to get stuffed but it seems no-one did given the shower got fitted.

The NHS is no different, it will be paying costs which to most of us are quite simply unbelievable. And there are some people who refuse to examine these practices and just believe that we should pump unlimited money into it? It's completely mad.
 
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bluethrunthru said:
Another interesting point to this is that yes modernisation = cuts so if getting rid of ticket staff and cleaners makes trains more efficient and cheaper then why has the explosion in self service checkouts in supermarkets I have seen this year meaning fewer cashiers not driven down prices in the shops ... thats the modernisation bullshit right there
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Because it increases profits. Companies then decide if they want to pay the staff more or shareholders/bigger bonuses. The railways are saying to pay more they need to make more (that may or may not be true). I’m sure you understand this.
 
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