'Twas amazing! A bigger miracle than the Holy Stump of Rathkeale. It would normally take a committee to be as collectively bereft of knowledge as this one man showed he is today. I applaud you. I pity you.
Who I am referring to is Tom Geraghty, General Secretary of the Public Service Executive Union. He claimed, this morning, that the public servants should not solely bear the brunt of expenditure cuts. Sure, isn't the public sector already paying a massive pension levy? This is an economic crisis for the whole country, not just the public sector, you know. This was his retalliation to the ESRI report that there is scope for further pay cuts in the public sector (not, as far as I know, that there have been any yet).
In the first quarter of this year the private sector was losing one job every two minutes while the public sector gained an extra 3,500 recruits. On top of this the private sector wages have fallen on average 20% while Brian Lenihan failed to cut increments from the public sector in the last budget which is costing the tax payer 300 million this year in pay rises.
So, Tom, you are half right. The burden is not being shared in an equitable way. The private sector are shouldering the lions share and it's time that the unions understood that and stopped alienating themselves from the entire country.
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