Greece to cut 15,000 public sector jobs at the behest of their creditors

[miju]

By 2015 the PS here will have been reduced by almost 60,000 or 18%.

ah well better enjoy my automatic annual increment for scratching me arse all year while it lasts so

[Greg Mooney]

Using your comparative figures above . . .you could take any OECD country and compare it with Ireland for any Government department and you'll find there are less workers comparatively in Ireland due to years of massive underfunding in the public sector.

now the trick is to get them all to do some work

[bokuden]

The former Greek finance minister was on the radio this morning saying they needed to cut 100,000 this year.

I presume they'll get a pittance for dole, so what do they expect all these people to do?

[Socratus O' Pericles]

They hold up the Irish austerity drive as a model for the Greeks to follow. The vigour of Dublin's export policy is built on sweeping wage cuts. In the public sector these can amount to 30%. The Greeks, who have sanctioned 15% cuts, have some way to go.

According to the Guardian we are definitely not Greece!

http://http://www.guardian.co.uk/bus...debt-crisis-eu

[bokuden]

According to the Guardian we are definitely not Greece!

http://http://www.guardian.co.uk/bus...debt-crisis-eu

We really are a bunch of spineless wusses, aren't we?

[Elvis jaffacake]

after the first 50 striking ESB workers were shot it would be lights on , baby

So "we" can shoot striking ESB workers here but not someone in Afghanistan (for example) because that's horrible?