Civil servants in Bradford district strike over pay and pensions (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Union members at Shipley Jobcentre held the office’s first ever picket. Twenty of 31 staff are union members, but just two were outside the office, due to cold weather and an early start.

What can be read into that paragraph?

Does anyone care what they do

No-one notices a difference anyway.

"Rob Thornton from the PCS said some staff had crossed the picket line because their pay was so poor they could not afford to lose a day’s salary."

You'd think that someone who works in a job centre would have a better sense of proportion as to what being 'so poor' meant.

"Union members at Shipley Jobcentre held the office’s first ever picket. Twenty of 31 staff are union members, but just two were outside the office, due to cold weather and an early start."

This just sums them up ,a set of total layabouts the lot of them .

BILLTILL wrote:
"Union members at Shipley Jobcentre held the office’s first ever picket. Twenty of 31 staff are union members, but just two were outside the office, due to cold weather and an early start."

This just sums them up ,a set of total layabouts the lot of them .

Exactly

And they wonder why they have zero public support

That picture of the person at the top cuts a sad and lonely picket line

Civil servants? From my personal hands on experience of working with civil servants, I would say that 99% of them need sacking from directors to the people on the bottom tier. There is no pride or anything civil about their jobs or jobs descriptions. They are not servants to the public but serve any interest which will help them increase their pay packet and pensions. They are oblivious to problems and stupidness is the norm. The worrying thing is these useless civil servants are now moving into the private sector...the cancer of stupidness is setting in deep! Get rid of the lot of them.

Not so simple wrote:
Civil servants? From my personal hands on experience of working with civil servants, I would say that 99% of them need sacking from directors to the people on the bottom tier. There is no pride or anything civil about their jobs or jobs descriptions. They are not servants to the public but serve any interest which will help them increase their pay packet and pensions. They are oblivious to problems and stupidness is the norm. The worrying thing is these useless civil servants are now moving into the private sector...the cancer of stupidness is setting in deep! Get rid of the lot of them.

Unfortunately stupidity already exists in the private sector too. Mainly managers enforcing cuts but protecting their own backs and those of their cronies!

I wonder how many private companies are now very top heavy?

2 from the Job Centre and 2 from HMRC Accounts clearly the Union has a lot of members in Shipley area!

If their own members can not support the action, you have to question who voted in favour of action?

Bone_idle18 wrote:

Not so simple wrote:
Civil servants? From my personal hands on experience of working with civil servants, I would say that 99% of them need sacking from directors to the people on the bottom tier. There is no pride or anything civil about their jobs or jobs descriptions. They are not servants to the public but serve any interest which will help them increase their pay packet and pensions. They are oblivious to problems and stupidness is the norm. The worrying thing is these useless civil servants are now moving into the private sector...the cancer of stupidness is setting in deep! Get rid of the lot of them.

Unfortunately stupidity already exists in the private sector too. Mainly managers enforcing cuts but protecting their own backs and those of their cronies!

I wonder how many private companies are now very top heavy?

Top heavy is seen as a sign of progress amongst the greedy people running the show. Biggest joke was when the ex housing stock of the council was "privatised" whilst it was failing under the people who ran it for the council. Currently the same people run Incommunities that used to run the councils housing....doomed to fail and us poor beggars will see the council bail them out with some fancy arms length company...our council taxes will rise and so will the pension/redundancy pay offs for these useless civil and ex civil servants. Roll on the circus clowns.

Not so simple wrote:
Civil servants? From my personal hands on experience of working with civil servants, I would say that 99% of them need sacking from directors to the people on the bottom tier. There is no pride or anything civil about their jobs or jobs descriptions. They are not servants to the public but serve any interest which will help them increase their pay packet and pensions. They are oblivious to problems and stupidness is the norm. The worrying thing is these useless civil servants are now moving into the private sector...the cancer of stupidness is setting in deep! Get rid of the lot of them.

Agreed. Pension grabbing bunch of layabouts. I would love to have their pensions, but I have to pay in 5 times as much for the same return.

These people are inept and not fit for purpose..

They have no perception of the type of job they do, in that every decision they make affects a HUMAN. If they make a mistake or a wrong decision, a human is affected....They do not care.

Sack them all, and put them on a Workfare program doing the jobs they did for free, or stop their benefits if they refuse.