Current Affairs Rail strikes

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Bank of England say inflation should fall to around 4% by the end of the year. Wouldn’t surprise me if the government are stringing out offering pay rises until inflation is down to 5-6% to give them a better position.
No chance you’re getting a 12% pay rise if inflation is down to half that.
 
Del-boy said:
Bank of England say inflation should fall to around 4% by the end of the year. Wouldn’t surprise me if the government are stringing out offering pay rises until inflation is down to 5-6% to give them a better position.
No chance you’re getting a 12% pay rise if inflation is down to half that.
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The inflation was always going to be temporary, which wouldn't be the case with pay rises.
 
Del-boy said:
Bank of England say inflation should fall to around 4% by the end of the year. Wouldn’t surprise me if the government are stringing out offering pay rises until inflation is down to 5-6% to give them a better position.
No chance you’re getting a 12% pay rise if inflation is down to half that.
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Prices will still remain inflated as companies will look to exploit a profit opportunity.
 
www.economist.com

The shape of the post-pandemic economy in Britain

Tech and professional services have been the big winners. Retail, not so much
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Although Britain is spending more than ever on health care—£212bn in 2022 compared with £160bn in 2019, by the ons’s count—it is getting far less for its money. Health-care and social-work output was, after adjusting for inflation, £4.6bn lower in December 2022 than three years earlier.
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While I certainly understand the calls among health workers for a pay rise, this sort of thing doesn't help their case. Spending £52bn more and yet getting nearly £5bn less for it. It's not a great scenario.

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Transport, similarly, is showing the lingering effects of coronavirus. Output is down by around 10%. That partly reflects the disruption caused by train strikes but it is also because working from home is more embedded in the British economy than in many of its peers. According to mobility data from Google, the number of Britons in “workplaces” is still 7% below February 2020; in France there is no change from that baseline.
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Bruce Wayne said:
www.economist.com

The shape of the post-pandemic economy in Britain

Tech and professional services have been the big winners. Retail, not so much
www.economist.com www.economist.com



While I certainly understand the calls among health workers for a pay rise, this sort of thing doesn't help their case. Spending £52bn more and yet getting nearly £5bn less for it. It's not a great scenario.

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Surely that has largely nothing to do with the individual staff working in the NHS, and their value to the society.

For example, how much of that decrease in output per £ is due to the ever increasing use of exorbitant agency staff due to poor working conditions and remuneration ?
 
Brennan said:
Surely that has largely nothing to do with the individual staff working in the NHS, and their value to the society.

For example, how much of that decrease in output per £ is due to the ever increasing use of exorbitant agency staff due to poor working conditions and remuneration ?
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Your guess is as good as mine. I'm just saying, it's not ideal. Productivity across the UK has been rubbish for quite a while now, and looking further back into the 90s onwards, productivity grew in the NHS by an average of 0.9% per year. It obviously won't be popular, but this growth was actually greater from 2010 onwards. You can see the stats for the public sector as a whole are pretty dreadful. As you say, there may be various factors behind that, I'm just saying that falling productivity is not an ideal backdrop to be demanding payrises.

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How has the productivity of UK health care changed between 1997 and 2019?

Since 2010, productivity growth has been higher in the health care sector than the whole economy, growing at an average annual rate of 1.5%, compared to 0.4% in the whole economy.
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ArtetaMoney said:
Reckon you’ll get to a resolution at all, mate? What’s the feeling on the ground amongst staff?
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No mate.
The cleaners and some of the engineer shed workers, are basically getting a pay rise and are up for taking a deal, most havnt a clue what it entails.
They will deffo , not be on house after Xmas 24 , they are in not in most cases anyway , and will end up working for outside companies on lower pay.
Merseyrail cleaners ect went that way.
The rest of the workers are now disecting the deal and what it means in effect to there jobs and its hardening the stance, certainly on the guards and station staff side of things.
Can't really speak for network rail staff,but the ones I talk to are staunch behind the strike.
Rumours are on the track side the government is going to break from talks and go straight to implement the changes and redundancy cuts.
Can't see a resolution at all.
But feel it will come to a head soon.
Honestly think we are on the brink of all out strike later in the year.
 
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