Inflation comments spark union pay claim warning
Wednesday 22nd June 2011, 2:57PM BST.
Unite spokesman Nick Corbel
WORKERS will have no choice but to push for pay rises after it was announced that the cost of living is set to soar over the next 12 months, Jersey’s biggest union has said.
On Saturday, economists warned that inflation could reach five per cent this year because of the rise in GST and other spiralling costs.
However, they urged Islanders and businesses not to make the situation worse by negotiating large pay increases, which could push prices up further.
But that message has been branded ‘naïve’ by the Unite union, which believes that workers will not be able to cope without pay rises.
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Duh… Pay rises are a contributing factor of inflation.
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For once, and it pains me to admit it but, I agree with Nick Corbel.
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Go on Corbel, insight a riot, why can’t you be a grown up and accept that everyone is affected and will have to tighten the collective belt. You are part of the problem, not the solution, next thing we know the public sector workers will be striking, hope they publish the dats as otherwise you’d be pushed to notice. Better make it soon, the teachers won’t want to strike during their 6 week summer break.
Corbel is an anachronism, he’s outdated and serves no purpose. The unions may once have served a valid purpose but it was so long ago you’d need to be an octegenarian to remember.
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Of course people, i.e. low to middle earners need pay rises, I have not had one for three years and am already really struggling, and I know there are people far worse off than I am. You cannot continue to increase the cost of just about everything including basic necessities such as food, electricity, petrol, telephone charges and then tell people to get on with it. Funny how the people making these statements and decisions are the high earners!!!!
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Yes give them all pay increases, final salary pensions and states housing because all states workers are under paid.
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A few years of pay freezes should be just the thing to stall the economy and the housing market.
Count in rising taxes as well and you have a pretty good recipe for stagflation.
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The state sector is the cause of almost all of the financial problems the island is suffering. Decades of properity should have provided a state of the art infrastructure plus great reserves but mismanagement over a great period of time has resulted in terrible roads, outdated care and medical facilities and a state sector bogged down and incapable of change.
Polititians make statements time and again about how savings will finally be made and time and again they fail, with a shrug of the shoulders.
It is totally unfair to expect the ordinary employee, most of which will be on a lot less than their counterparts in the state sector, to now take a pay cut to bail the island out.
Yes, keep it to inflation, no room for pay increases in real terms, but we need to see MASSIVE SAVINGS in expenditure by the public sector, and all from the tiers the failing management, not at the coal face.
Together with a reining in of the UK style money-for-nothing culture which the civil servants seem to love.
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Martin, fairness has nothing to do with anything. It is a survival of the fittest play ground and nick is only playing by the rules. Now if you want to change the rules that is quite a different issue, but the voter requires more understanding to achieve that change. If understood it could change tomorrow? No need to wait for elections.
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The economy is expected to have contracted by another 3% last year and Unite will want a 5% increase. Where does Corbel think the money will come from – another 3% on GST perhaps?
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“Nick is only playing by the rules”
What rules are they, the ones that say everyone else can pay for it but not ststes workers. Stop spitting the dummy and get on with it, the states workers are in a far better position than most to weather the storm.
As for Corbel, he just wants your money, all he has to do is take a contrary view and tell the lead swingers they should strike.
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Ok , put things up if they need to be but I wish someone could check all the energy/food prices and put a stop to those unreal increases.
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