Comments on: Right to Work http://www.mikecosgrave.com/blog2006/?p=455 Life, the Universe and Everything Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:38:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Annie http://www.mikecosgrave.com/blog2006/?p=455&cpage=1#comment-2653 Annie Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:06:58 +0000 http://www.mikecosgrave.com/blog2006/?p=455#comment-2653 I for one will miss not being able to attend your class. I only have the two a week and I get such a buzz from both of them. Plus Digital history is so much fun, I'm beginning to like computers now!!! In saying that though, as a rule I just couldn't pass a picket line. But I do agree in principle with what you have said. I don't quite grasp what happened here while I lived in England but someone, actually a nation it would seem, went fairly nuts and lost touch with reality. The amount some people are paid is outrageous and in the current climate unfeasible. As a rather poor single mother/student, I reckon we all have to take a hit to get the country back onto its wobbly feet, and maybe striking is not the answer...my revolutionary heart and my rational mind are for once at odds with each other... I for one will miss not being able to attend your class. I only have the two a week and I get such a buzz from both of them. Plus Digital history is so much fun, I’m beginning to like computers now!!!
In saying that though, as a rule I just couldn’t pass a picket line. But I do agree in principle with what you have said. I don’t quite grasp what happened here while I lived in England but someone, actually a nation it would seem, went fairly nuts and lost touch with reality. The amount some people are paid is outrageous and in the current climate unfeasible. As a rather poor single mother/student, I reckon we all have to take a hit to get the country back onto its wobbly feet, and maybe striking is not the answer…my revolutionary heart and my rational mind are for once at odds with each other…

]]> By: Tina http://www.mikecosgrave.com/blog2006/?p=455&cpage=1#comment-2652 Tina Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:45:01 +0000 http://www.mikecosgrave.com/blog2006/?p=455#comment-2652 The local primary school sent a letter home today explaining that staff members that were members of two unions would not be at work and so the Board of Management decided for health and safety reasons to close the school on the 24th as there will be insufficient staff numbers. That sounds reasonable, regardless of one's opinion of the unions' action. The local primary school sent a letter home today explaining that staff members that were members of two unions would not be at work and so the Board of Management decided for health and safety reasons to close the school on the 24th as there will be insufficient staff numbers. That sounds reasonable, regardless of one’s opinion of the unions’ action.

]]> By: Barry http://www.mikecosgrave.com/blog2006/?p=455&cpage=1#comment-2651 Barry Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:20:46 +0000 http://www.mikecosgrave.com/blog2006/?p=455#comment-2651 The whole point of unions is to organise labour for better conditions and pay. If what you're saying is true, the "organise" part of that is being neglected, so maybe no one will even notice that you're not on-message. In other news, I don't think benchmarking was a "scam", except in the sense that capitalism in general is a scam: there's a strong argument to be made there. The whole point of unions is to organise labour for better conditions and pay. If what you’re saying is true, the “organise” part of that is being neglected, so maybe no one will even notice that you’re not on-message.

In other news, I don’t think benchmarking was a “scam”, except in the sense that capitalism in general is a scam: there’s a strong argument to be made there.

]]> By: Shane McAuliffe http://www.mikecosgrave.com/blog2006/?p=455&cpage=1#comment-2650 Shane McAuliffe Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:46:14 +0000 http://www.mikecosgrave.com/blog2006/?p=455#comment-2650 Bravo Mike, well said! You've taken a very unbiased view of it all and are dead right. The Public Sector have rode the wave of the boom better then most and now they're being asked to take pay cuts which reflect national averages but also the drop in the cost of living in this country. You say it better then me though! Bravo Mike, well said! You’ve taken a very unbiased view of it all and are dead right. The Public Sector have rode the wave of the boom better then most and now they’re being asked to take pay cuts which reflect national averages but also the drop in the cost of living in this country. You say it better then me though!

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