Passport office staff refusing to deal with public from 1pm tomorrow

[Baron von Biffo]

This is my last post on the subject and I won't be answering your strawman questions.

In fairness I wasn't expecting answers. The uncomfortable questions usually are ignored.

I don't expect you to take back your position because it is obvious that your loyalty to the public sector workers is not based on justice or common sense but either self-interest or some bizarre ideology.

My position on the PS dispute is based on the very simple idea that a contract is a contract.

You express surprise at being called a Thatcherite, probably because you consider yourself a socialist.

Well let me tell you, calling for the cops to get rough with a group of workers who cannot make ends meet is not socialist by ANY standards so you want to have a think about your ideas and where they come from.

Where did I call for "the cops to get rough" with anyone?

[hammer]

Hopefully the social welfare offices never go on strike or there could be riots

[cctvstar]

Hopefully the social welfare offices never go on strike or there could be riots

Fair play to the public sector workers in the Social Welfare offices.

[Raketemensch]

Where did I call for "the cops to get rough" with anyone?

OK, it was my second last post on the subject
Here:

RTÉ News: Three-hour taxi protest

Once again the taxi drivers are to bring our cities to a standstill in furtherance of their absurd demand for the state to protect them from legitimate competition.

We really need the authorities to stop treating this sort of abuse of the public with kid gloves.

[Baron von Biffo]

OK, it was my second last post on the subject
Here:

That's not a call to be rough it's a call for rigorous application of the law. Just like the drivers want for those driving illegally.

[Tombo]

Looking over the threads here, the abuse of public service workers, the calling for arrest of Taxi drivers, the Sunday Independent will not be short of writers if Eoghan Harris, Jody Corcoran, Mr Fanning gets a call to better things, there are plenty of posters here to fill their shoes.however, i expect to hear less criticism of them in the future, I Would not for a moment believe there are hypocrite posters here,

Abuse of public service workers?

Well, for that to be true, they would need to be working in the service of the public.

Oh dear.

Sack them.

[Clanrickard]

Privatise the Passport Office and that will sort out the problem.

[Eirmail]

Abuse of public service workers?

Well, for that to be true, they would need to be working in the service of the public.

Oh dear.

Sack them.

we need a new term how about "public non-serving worktorulers" or "Selfserving nonworking state salary takers" , because I for one won't be calling them public service workers.

[hammer]

Privatise the passpot office. Good call.

Divert all Passport Office staff to Social Welfare Offices

[Gael Nua]

Christ some of you are real nasty f*ckers.

Do you think the people working in the passport office are glad they have been selected by the Unions to escalate matters? My sister works there, mostly on the Public Counter and works flat out from pillar to post. She also puts up with a savage amount of abuse from Joe Public who has driven up from the country without half the correct forms and can't understand why his application can't be progressed or Foreign Biddy who has a screaming baby hanging off of her and has nothing stamped.

Delays up to this point are for other reasons. Top mgt have put a ban on neccessary overtime (before the workers refused to do it in other Dept.s) and the bringing in of seasonal workers, up to this point needed annually, to keep waiting times down.

In fact, ironically, it is likely that re-allocating staff today away from the public counters will lead to more applications being processed than usual.

The reason they have been selected is that they are a busy public office, (ironically again, they are less deserving of suggestion of being a stereotypical civil servant) and so they cause a bigger reaction. It will be social welfare and redundancy offices soon - god knows the vitriolic commentary we will see then.

Fastracking of Passports for politicians or their family etc has been stopped.