Civil servants in strike action

8:49am Wednesday 20th March 2013 in News

THOUSANDS of civil servants in Yorkshire will go on strike today as they launch a Budget Day protest.

Jobcentres, tax offices, immigration and border services and defence bases will be among the Government departments affected by the walkout, organised by the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union, with almost 20,000 Civil Service employees expected to take part in Yorkshire and the Humber.

A second strike is due to be held on April 5, with PCS regional secretary Juanita Charles saying its members wanted to pressurise the Government to “take serious action against wealthy tax-dodgers”.

She said: “It’s clear the public have lost faith in austerity and want an alternative.”

Today’s action will include rallies in Leeds, Bradford, Barnsley, Huddersfield and Sheffield.

Comments(14)

Shouter says...
8:57am Wed 20 Mar 13

I don't think anyone will notice!

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Kevin Turvey says...
9:02am Wed 20 Mar 13

You just beat me to it!
Things will run much more smoothly now!
Have a strike every day for me!

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Elephant says...
10:25am Wed 20 Mar 13

What a farce. Juanita Charles and friends clearly haven't got a clue. Taxing the fabled 'wealthy tax-dogers' wouldn't raise enough money to run the public sector for one weekend.The UK has a structural problem with unsustainable public sector spending that means the coalition Government has to borrow £300m a day just to pay its way. Not that the unions give a

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voiceofnormalpeople says...
10:29am Wed 20 Mar 13

So they are going on strike BEFORE they even know what the budget will bring!! lol

Its a shame they are not this efficient in there day to day jobs. ready for you before you get there with your problems.

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Ignatius Lumpopo says...
12:16pm Wed 20 Mar 13

Why just the wealthy tax-dodgers? Why not all of them?

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Capt. Dobie says...
1:18pm Wed 20 Mar 13

Ignatius Lumpopo wrote:
Why just the wealthy tax-dodgers? Why not all of them?
Quite.

Keep my seat warm...just going for a quantitative ease...back in 5...

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MissConstrood says...
4:04pm Wed 20 Mar 13

tar brush all them same
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look behind the chosen words that get printed

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Pete the Brickie says...
4:39pm Wed 20 Mar 13



Elephant says...
10:25am Wed 20 Mar 13

What a farce. Juanita Charles and friends clearly haven't got a clue. Taxing the fabled 'wealthy tax-dogers' wouldn't raise enough money to run the public sector for one weekend.



It would, nobody in these jobs work weekends.

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piemagico says...
6:19pm Wed 20 Mar 13

Beautiful irony in public sector workers being abused by highly productive individuals scraping the depths of the internet during standard working hours.

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bob the builder says...
6:59pm Wed 20 Mar 13

.. there's a day's pay and pension saved for the government - keep it up unions we won't need austerity measures or job losses.

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stopatred says...
8:48pm Wed 20 Mar 13

think they would need to go on strike for more than one day before anyone notices. Has it affected anyone? No thought not

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roadwars says...
9:42pm Wed 20 Mar 13

piemagico wrote:
Beautiful irony in public sector workers being abused by highly productive individuals scraping the depths of the internet during standard working hours.
:-)
and some of them will no doubt be the highly productive individuals that are doing jobs that used to be done in by the public sector but are now costing local authorities twice as much in private contracts so that our tax not only pays their wages but also pays for their bosses and shareholders accountants to find ways for them to avoid paying tax...

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Capt. Dobie says...
8:23am Thu 21 Mar 13

roadwars wrote:
piemagico wrote: Beautiful irony in public sector workers being abused by highly productive individuals scraping the depths of the internet during standard working hours.
:-) and some of them will no doubt be the highly productive individuals that are doing jobs that used to be done in by the public sector but are now costing local authorities twice as much in private contracts so that our tax not only pays their wages but also pays for their bosses and shareholders accountants to find ways for them to avoid paying tax...
Touche!

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Elephant says...
9:41am Thu 21 Mar 13

roadwars wrote:
piemagico wrote:
Beautiful irony in public sector workers being abused by highly productive individuals scraping the depths of the internet during standard working hours.
:-)
and some of them will no doubt be the highly productive individuals that are doing jobs that used to be done in by the public sector but are now costing local authorities twice as much in private contracts so that our tax not only pays their wages but also pays for their bosses and shareholders accountants to find ways for them to avoid paying tax...
Don't let facts get in the way of your rants. The public sector rarely accounts for full the economic costs of staff providing the service, including salaries, final salary pensions, infrastructure, management and accounting. And, yes, I have worked with many public and private sector organisations and the latter were always more efficient and effective.

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