{"id":123,"date":"2009-02-13T14:37:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T14:37:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-04-07T12:28:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T11:28:09","slug":"pay-200910-10-good-reasons-why-barnet-local-government-staff-should-have-a-pay-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/2009\/02\/13\/pay-200910-10-good-reasons-why-barnet-local-government-staff-should-have-a-pay-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay 2009\/10. 10 good reasons why Barnet local government staff should have a pay rise"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 good reasons why Barnet local government staff should have a pay rise.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Because we deserve it. (this should be enough of an argument alone)<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The economic situation is not of our making, we did not<\/b> cause this crisis, so why should we have to pay for it. <\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The economic situation is unstable some would say chaotic. So we need a pay rise which is not just above inflation, but has a sufficient buffer above inflation to protect our real incomes against the wild fluctuations that are coming our way.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Our bills<\/span><\/b> have gone up and are due to go up even more. FUEL Average household bill rose by \u00a3381 to \u00a31,293<\/b> last year. FOOD Prices rose by 11%<\/b> last year[MSN Money] COUNCIL TAX Bills could rise by 3.5%<\/b> on average [Local Government Association] <\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Government measures of inflation (CPI and RPI) systematically under-estimate real price inflation as experienced by working people. The highest price rises are for essentials such as food and utilities, and we spend much more of our income on these things than higher earners. <\/span><\/li>\n
  6. The demands on our wages are not being \u2018moderated\u2019 because of the recession. Landlords are not saying <\/b>\u201cI’ll let you off your rent this month, what with the economic crisis\u201d! <\/span><\/li>\n
  7. A low pay rise would have real and distressing consequences for us. Local Government workers would\/could face stress, home repossessions, debts,<\/b> and will struggle to support ourselves and our families. <\/span><\/li>\n
  8. If the government can afford billions <\/b>of pounds to bail out the banks, then it can afford to pay public service workers such as ourselves a decent wage rise.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. \u00a0<\/span>The Gordon Brown\/ Government policy is to stimulate an economic revival. They want us to spend more. To do that, we need more money.<\/b> Lower pay rises will work against this policy<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Self-sacrifice on our part will not save a single job<\/b> in local government or any other industry.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    10 good reasons why Barnet local government staff should have a pay rise. \u00a0 Because we deserve it. (this should be enough of an argument alone) The economic situation is not of our making, we did not cause this crisis, so why should we have to pay for it. The economic situation is unstable some would say chaotic. So we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7198,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/7198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}