Unions ‘must face economic reality’
Monday 27th July 2009, 2:58PM BST.
Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur at the luanch of the Business Plan
CHIEF Minister Terry Le Sueur will meet unions to discuss States Business Plan cuts, but says that they have to face the reality of Jersey’s uncertain economic future.
Unions and associations representing a broad cross-section of the 6,654 States employees wrote to Senator Le Sueur last week to request a meeting over cuts that they said would ‘seriously affect the safety and quality of life of the people of Jersey’.
The 2010 Business Plan, published on Tuesday, proposes £17m worth of cuts across departments to fund growth in what ministers say are essential services.
But 14 unions or associations representing manual workers, civil servants, teachers, nurses, policemen and firefighters have expressed their ‘deep concern’ over the proposals.
Senator Le Sueur said that he would be happy to meet the union and association representatives and listen to their concerns.
But he said that their claims about the cuts affecting Islanders’ safety and quality of life were exaggerated.
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If he was a 24 hour carer for somebody disabled or with a handicapped child that needed 24 hr attention he might consider the loss of a respite home a pretty devastating blow!
Cutting back on childcare facilities and youth services is not making a saving – it is losing the revenue from parents who will then have to be paid low income allowance and storing up legal and policing costs for the youngsters that will be roaming the streets getting into trouble.
The CoM have always been short sighted and blinkered in their view of essential services but well over the top when it comes to giving away taxpayers’ money to extravagant projects which should be financed by the finance industry and not the taxpayer and this whole business plan is flawed by this simple mindset.
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unions must face economic reality…?what if they are and you are not..? the workers know the cost of living, no wonder they are spewing at being told No money by those who swan around in Mercs, Blacberry in hand, all expenses paid… big fat lunches and fine wines at the Capanina..do you really expect them to tug the forelock and say very sorry your bigship, I did not mean to have a life,I’ll try to be more Bob Cratchit like in future……
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Well lets see where we can get some money back to help deduce this £17M that we need to find. 1st thing Bill Ogley that will save a few hundred grand a year, im sure we will make do without him.
Secondly do we need to resurface every road in the island. The works on Mont Millais im sure could be put back a few years and so with the avenue. Health can make some savings but not by loss of service. Why not get this 17M by making lots of small savings in every depatment rather then just hitting health which is the most vunerable of all.
I know for a fact that great savings can be made in the chief ministers department and his million pound communications team who managed to make such a dogs dinner out of the HDLG incident.
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#1 Nellie,as always someone with a bit of foresight.I totally agree with you having been a full time carer in the past.As for the closure of Grands Vaux Family centre this is only the beginning. It would seem that CoM have no real understanding of the issues here or the implications for the future.
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