tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985080357558043054.post6038275686408087762..comments2024-03-27T18:54:46.951+00:00Comments on Syniadau :: The Blog: Except for the taxisSyniadauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13876017048168055247noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985080357558043054.post-30383060355546707462010-10-28T16:50:23.630+01:002010-10-28T16:50:23.630+01:00I wonder how the other (mostly non-Labour) council...I wonder how the other (mostly non-Labour) councils will deal with retrenchment?<br /><br />Maybe LAs and other public bodies should seriously start looking at 4 day weeks for their staff - maintaining the same establishment, so no redundancies, but cutting the staffing coat according to the settlement cloth.Emlyn Uwch Cychhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03384157218244458970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985080357558043054.post-56590790454128711002010-10-28T15:19:25.580+01:002010-10-28T15:19:25.580+01:00I agree that some sort of pay restraint (maybe inc...I agree that some sort of pay restraint (maybe including reductions in pay, or pension, or holiday etc.) is necessary too, Owen. But, as you said, the point is how they go about it.<br /><br />I think Labour are falling over themselves to implement this quickly in order to put as much daylight between now and the Assembly election in May/June. <br /><br />That's why we're not going to hear Carwyn Jones or Ed Miliband stand up and condemn NPT or RCT for what they're now doing in the way that Kinnock did in the eighties. They obviously think that if everything can be "done and dusted" now, people will have either got used to it or forgotten about it ... and will just keep on voting Labour as if nothing had happened. <br /><br />Which Labour council will be next, I wonder?MHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09329059309196746446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985080357558043054.post-8726830078537325182010-10-28T13:16:22.921+01:002010-10-28T13:16:22.921+01:00I think pay restraint/freezes, pay cuts, changes t...I think pay restraint/freezes, pay cuts, changes to pensions and unfilled vacancies have some element of inevitability across the Welsh public sector.<br /><br />However hard it is to accept, it's much more preferable than laying off people by the thousands into an uncertain jobs market in my view.<br /><br />But to strong-arm like this, like NPT have tried to do recently too, is unacceptable.<br /><br />It makes me lead to believe that someone in Cardiff Bay may have given them a tip-off as to the forthcoming Welsh budget. I don't see how any council with any integrity would do this willingly unless it was urgent.Owennoreply@blogger.com