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There is a lot of articles on the likely fall out of the pay concessions to nurses across all media platforms but today's article in the Irish Independent needs to be examined closely.
Ivan Yates and no doubt the Irish Independent are trying to divide public and private sector workers. His article is suggesting that the 1.7 million private workers are paying for the wage demands of public sector workers.
Few points need to be made
Ordinary workers private and public sector are scraping by day to day. Workers being pitted against each other only serves wealthy business interests some of whom have big stakes in the media.
Most workers would not seek wage increases if they though something was being done to tackle the cost of living in this country i.e. insurance, vrt, rent, legal costs, mortgage interest rates etc the simple fact is that the establishment has done nothing to tackle these.
Ivan Yates himself has gained from pension increases linked to public sector pay. And let's not forgot he left behind a large amount of debt that both public and private sector workers are paying the price for.
An United approach by workers should be adopted with tackling the high cost of living before wage increases should be in everyone's interests.
Discuss.
Ivan Yates and no doubt the Irish Independent are trying to divide public and private sector workers. His article is suggesting that the 1.7 million private workers are paying for the wage demands of public sector workers.
Few points need to be made
Ordinary workers private and public sector are scraping by day to day. Workers being pitted against each other only serves wealthy business interests some of whom have big stakes in the media.
Most workers would not seek wage increases if they though something was being done to tackle the cost of living in this country i.e. insurance, vrt, rent, legal costs, mortgage interest rates etc the simple fact is that the establishment has done nothing to tackle these.
Ivan Yates himself has gained from pension increases linked to public sector pay. And let's not forgot he left behind a large amount of debt that both public and private sector workers are paying the price for.
An United approach by workers should be adopted with tackling the high cost of living before wage increases should be in everyone's interests.
Discuss.