Chancellor defiant as civil servants stage strike

Anthony Butcher · 06-11-2004, 02:41 AM

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/poli...?id=1282212004

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THOUSANDS of workers staged the biggest strike in the civil service for over a decade yesterday, forcing the closure of museums and disrupting driving tests, job centres, benefit offices and Customs.

Industrial relations have plunged to a new low because of a row over controversial plans to cut 100,000 jobs, with the threat of further walk-outs if the row is unresolved.

mkpdavies · 06-11-2004, 03:08 AM

Thats what you get for treating people like dirt. Brown was right to look at whether all the civil servants were needed, but he should have done it with a lot more sesitivity for people. Just anouncing 100 000 people were going to be discarded, like rubbish on T.V. is not the sign of a good manager.

There are lots of better ways he could have reduced the numbers over time, without casuing all this pain and fuss.

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mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 30,752	Thats what you get for treating people like dirt. Brown was right to look at whether all the civil servants were needed, but he should have done it with a lot more sesitivity for people. Just anouncing 100 000 people were going to be discarded, like rubbish on T.V. is not the sign of a good manager. There are lots of better ways he could have reduced the numbers over time, without casuing all this pain and fuss. __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Blue Labour, Lib Dems

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