Oh the fun and games begin. There is no way FF will chop 20,000. Looks like this report is going to be yet another in a long line of reports that makes its way to the bin.

Snip wants 20,000 jobs cut - Times Online

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I'm on a temporary, heading towards permanent ban for using dozens of sock puppets

It needs to be at least 80,000 public sector jobs, get rid of all the useless pen pushers.

Doo Doo and fan come to mind!!!!...but sure they're on holidays now!!!...expect the Joe line to be pretty busy!!!!


The FF/green way of public consultation!!!!!!

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Maurice Nelligan..May 2009
We do not wait happily or expectantly. It is a grim wait. In the words of Edmund Burke, “there is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue”. We are fast approaching that point.

They play solitaire now. Get the pop corn out, FF have to take on the unions or the country sinks....

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Expect a lot of kite flying in the papers and on the radio shows tomorrow morning.

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We need a temporary right wing dictatorship in this country to take on the unions, where's the Irish Pinochet in the Defence Forces.

The key thing is how these cuts are to be achieved

Redundancies are far too expensive

I know of several (smart) companies that managed to achieve cuts of order 10-20% over the past 2 years through natural attrition

However public sector workers rarely leave their jobs except through retirement... also for cuts through natural attrition to work : remaining workers will need to be flexible and accept redeployment...

To deal with these people is going to be a political nightmare...

cYp

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Anyone care to give odds on whether a few self-serving FF TD's will leave the party to save their hides? Go Independent, vote against everything, tell everyone they did, and then re-join FF in the future for 40 pieces of silver.

Well, seeing as FF made a complete balls up decentralisation, expect this to go ar$eways also.

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Nah, being part of FF means you must be spineless.

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