The Mail vs Pay Freeze Misery For Workers...

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:51 pm

Another 12 months of pay freeze misery for workers... but bosses enjoy a huge 55% salary increase

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ation.html

According to some comments, the Mail is pandering to the labourite stooges who have taken over. Allegedly unmoderated - have fun!

Danson's Forehead · **Joined:** Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:32 am **Posts:** 718

Facts not getting in the way of some of the comments.

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Mixed rather than awful news. High time that private sector pay rises started outstripping the public sector - it's been the other way round for a decade and the public sector (teachers / police / medical staff) are now heavily overpaid compared to the private sector equivalents. If it make the rest of you feel better though, us IT workers are in our 11th year of squeeze. For those who've survived the off shoring at my corporation, the price has been half a decade of pay freeze followed by an average to 2% a year there after. If public sector pay is still frozen in 2015, we'll be happy to start sharing out some sympathy with them.
- Ian McGowan, Midlands, 07/1/2011 02:03

What private sector police equivalents?

cycloon · **Joined:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:07 pm **Posts:** 3250

Why is the public sector to blame for private companies freezing salaries? Is it divide and conquer?

(I'm a simpleton, someone explain).

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:18 pm

Traffic Wardens?

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

I can't speak for the private police ( :shock:

), but you can earn much more in the private sector working as a nurse or paramedic.

Mr Mordon · **Posted:** Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:42 pm

Considering IT workers enjoyed seemingly limitless opportunities and extravagent pay scales during the time of the (made up) millenium bug i'm not suprised the rises have been a bit sluggish in recent years.

storygirl · **Posted:** Fri Jan 07, 2011 5:27 pm

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Mixed rather than awful news. High time that private sector pay rises started outstripping the public sector - it's been the other way round for a decade and the public sector (teachers / police / medical staff) are now heavily overpaid compared to the private sector equivalents. If it make the rest of you feel better though, us IT workers are in our 11th year of squeeze. For those who've survived the off shoring at my corporation, the price has been half a decade of pay freeze followed by an average to 2% a year there after. If public sector pay is still frozen in 2015, we'll be happy to start sharing out some sympathy with them

unfortunately something went wrong with formatting when I wrote this....

If you take a job and don't do well enough to get a pay rise,don't blame the public sector, but your own performance. It is also a fact that private sector teachers and medical professionals get paid far more than their public sector equivalents.perhaps they are simply more valued than the bloke who fixes the computer?

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