Tax Funded Union Research Backs Tax Funding of Unions
On the day that the consultation into union-leeches is launched, Unison have put out a report about facilities time. In a complete shock the union-funded research has found that unions taking money off the taxpayer can only be a good thing. Needless to say it’s full of holes, but nice of them to show their hand…
Dave Prentis’ cronies are arguing that union bods in the workplace save money. This is fundamentally dishonest as it only takes into account one side of the picture. For every full-time pilgrim teacher, nurse or back-room pen-pusher that takes time off, the taxpayer has to pick up the tab twice by paying someone else to cover for them. For full-time pilgrims, the state ends up paying double the staffing costs.
This is not factored in to Unison’s hearsay case-study puff piece.
The consultation does not seek to end union officials being given time off, but the real question that needs to be addressed is why they should be paid out of public money when they are not on the job? Union members pay membership fees, the cost of pilgrims should be met from that.
It’s very simple.
UPDATE: It seems it is pilgrim day today. Cabinet Office sources are making all sorts of new information available this afternoon:
- In one Whitehall department a staggering 2,660 Civil Servants were doing trade union work during their paid hours, including 563 trade union representatives working on Health & Safety, and another 387 on Skills and Learning.
- A prison service official who worked 100% on trade union work was “promoted twice whilst in their trade union role, up to Grade 7 level” which can confer a salary of up to £61,038.
- In contrast another 100% trade union representative in a different department earned less than £20,000.
- In one department TU officials make up 4% of the overall workforce or 1 in 25 people.
- One department admitted that “no formal allocations [had been] made or central records kept” of the amount of time spent by representatives on some union activity, while another confessed that “no central monitoring takes place”.
- Only one department reported that they asked each representative “to apply to, and get the sign off from, the line manager in advance for the time they require” to take off – insisting that “reasonable notice (usually min 10 days)” must be given.
- Several departments reported that they held “no central record” of the numbers of representatives working on Health & Safety or Skills & Learning.
Overall there are a staggering 10,000 civil servants doing trade union work during paid hours, that’s 1 in 40 of the total civil service workforce. Unbelievable…
UPDATE II:
TURC welcomes this morning's Cabinet Office consultation launch on facility time. Preparing our submission.—
Trade Union Reform (@TURCPress) July 13, 2012
It’s our rights
Lazy bums. This is not about rights, it is about costs. Take the time off if you want, (one lazy civil servant is very much like another) but pay for your laxity yourself.
Should anyone need app on their phone for employment law so they know where they stand in the work place I’m sure it’s out there & FREE
And that way the worker doesnt have to pay protection money to the unions
Better still take out legal protection, and sue the asses off the unions when they don’t stick up for you because they are too busy sucking up to Labour
Rights? Yeah, sure – but what about responsibilities? If the taxpayer pays you, you’ve a responsibility to do the job the taxpayer is paying you for. If the Union pays you, your responsibility is to the Union. However, if the taxpayer pays you, the taxpayer may become rather pissed off if you think your responsibility is to the Union, and not said taxpayer.
Hope that helps.
Taxpayers exist to support their socialist betters. Remember that serfs.
Thanks for that
But it’s OK to say it over Twitter?
There is also no place for a “f… socialist c…” in public life in any context.
STFU
Excellent!
Clearly this silly bint has never taken the time to lower herself to go and watch football matches attended by the working class!
What a fucking idiot she is!!
8/10. What you meant to say was “fucking white idiot”. Watch your language next time or de boyz’ll be round.
Utter bollocks as always Hattie.
Cultural marxism, better known as political correctness, has no place in any society, that dares to call itself free.
There is also no place for a “Harriet F…… Harman” in public life in any context.
Hell is the only place for socialists, that’s why they turn everywhere else into hell.
Oh dear Harriet doesn’t of course want to mention how her sister was not put in prison for contempt of court in a Family Court case – while so many others have been. 2 faced & Fork-tongued as ever. “Two Hats Harriet” would be a good moniker.
Always reminds me of one of the Dr Who monsters
https://twitter.com/PeoplesPledgeEU/status/223788327847985155
Sort it out Cameron, this is the sort of thing you were elected for.
Poncing about with gay marriage and foreign war war excursions were not part of your remit.
A referendum on Europe wouldn’t go amiss either.
+104.
Dim Dave, the Ca-moron, is just a placeholder until His Majesty King Tony is ready to resume the throne.
It’s a good life
F****** union c****.
1 in a million……..ourtone’s bankers JP Morgan increases it’s trading loss to $4.4 billion.
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if only other’s knew like Mr Blair when the game is up.
So the gold didn’t really help them in the long run? Shame.
The gold was sold to get the other bunch of parasites Goldman Sachs off the hook and save their worthless arses.
A few ounces of lead would have been a lot cheaper and more effective.
I might be back!
Not unbelievable at all. I am surprised it isnt more than 1 in 40. No wonder public sector spending shows little sign of reducing.
It is a huge scandal that dwarfs anything Bob Diamond has done. They are all in it together.
How many out of each 40 are on sick leave, or PC awareness training etc. etc.? A blxxdy site more than one. The public sector employees are nearly all skiving fxxkers.
This beggars belief…. errr I think …… Len????
Len where are you when I need you. People with camera’s and stuff are asking me questions!
I’d rather my money was spent on trade union ‘leeches’ than on, oh let me see…
1. banker’s bonuses
2. The Olympics
3. MP’s expenses
4. Repaying PFI extortion
5. government snooping at my email
6. Tony Blair’s continued existence on this planet
7. another fucking parliamentary enquiry into anything
8. lawyers
9. the House Of Lords
10. almost anything else our masters are pissing down the toilet..
I’d rather my money was spent on NONE of them thanks including Leeches
+ 1
Agreed.
But good work Guido.
Yes, Guido is at his best when he has his teeth into things like this. Much more interesting than musical chairs among the lying world of spin doctors he sometimes gets side-tracked with.
Parasites are parasites, wherever you find them, get rid. Job done.
Since when were bankers’ bonuses paid out of income tax receipts?
Bankers bonuses are paid out of your pocket by giving them money created out of nothing, which depreciates the value of your money. Creating and wasting this fiat currency is what grants them the bonuses and undermines the real economy. All such bankers and their political stooges should be eliminated.
Bloodsucking parasites
Not shit sherlock.
How long will it take gutless Dave to sort this? For ever? Also eliminating fxxking stupid PC prosecutions for trivial racial abuse costing the taxpayer a fortune in legal fees?
You have my cast iron guarantee that I WILL sort this mess out…….. Sometime after 2015
If you are still PM by 2015 then many of us will be even more hacked off than we are now.
Who do you suggest should be PM instead, mad Eddie ?
Trust me! – you did Phoney B£iar! – and I’m his willing, humble, and obedient Servant!
It’s part of my Fairness Agenda
It’s part of your Fabian Agenda don’t you mean?
Here is an idea. Get MP’s to do 100% facility time for the unions. This would get my vote as …….
1. They do fuck all anyway
2. Better the unions got the benefit of their ‘expertise’
and the unions are bound to be given an expense bill by the MPs. Win Win.
The public should not be expected to pay anything at all to politicians. Politicians should be paid by their political supporters. They already work for special interests, and spend their time whoring themselves out as influence peddlers, when not lying about expenses or boozing at public expense. They do not serve the public, they merely exploit them.
To be clear, you mean something like 1 in 40 civil servants take some time off for TU duties – or, roughly speaking, there is an office rep for every 40 staff who does , say, an hour a week as union rep, rather than 1 in 40 are full time union reps, I think
Correct its only 250 !! who are 100% TU full time. So nothing to worry about its only £8.3m @ £30k pa (+ NHI)
Wonder how many soldiers could be employed for £8.3m?
I wonder how many of the MoD
civil servantsparasites are pilgrims? Then a direct comparison could be done.MoD admin civil servants could be cut by 75% and none would notice any difference. Though paper clips might run out on the odd occasion until they got the hang of things.
It really is a disgrace that this has been allowed to happen. Pilgrims should be paid for from union subs, maybe the Bob Crows of this world should take a pay cut.After all he is in council accommodation so doesnt need a massive salary to pay his rent from.
Seriously it would be great to know, out of 100 Public sector workers how many on average are productive after you have taken out …
1. TU work
2. Joining the Institute Of Meeting Engineers on pointless days away
3. Sickies
4. Generous holidays
Then consider the waste and even malignity of government policies which they implement when actually working. Very little of the money spent on and by the civil service is worthwhile.
A staggering 10,000 civil servants doing trade union work during paid hours, that’s 1 in 40 of the total civil service workforce. Unbelievable…
That is unbelievable. I assure Dave Prentiss the figure will be 30,000 if I’m elected PM.
I’ve done work in public buildings all over the place and the notice boards are infested with union propaganda, not much in the way of genuine notices though that actually relate to business in hand.
If you don’t have RAMS & PPE you may sever an artery pinning a notice on the board, therefore only approved pinners may use the notice board
Wonderful news!
Quite so, untrained and dangerous pinning, has caused more than 250 days to be lost to pinning injuries in the DfID alone this year.
We use one of those electric staple gun thingies beloved of upholsterers and carpenters. I tell you straight, the number of times the secretaries have to take time off to get their nails redone after trying to get one of those staples out of the notice board as they remove expired notices is quite astonishing.
“While it would seem that one could effect economies, Minister, by making so- called Pilgrims perform the jobs for which they are ostensibly paid, an important and crucial question is begged– are we not assuming that these people would be any good at what they were hired to do, and isn’t the fact that they have drifted into these sinecure positions possibly the illustration of the fact that, being incompetent at what they do, they are now being protected by doing union work and we are protected from them? This is a political question, and one which the people have reposed their faith in you to solve, and as usual, Minister, it’s your call; I can but advise…”
+1
I can but agree with His Lordship and add my +1! And if I may say, on behalf of all thinking people, several million more!
Will that be all Sir?
Excellent! A true classic. I always reckoned YM was a documentary series disguised as inspired comedy.
This story will not be reported as our schedules are full of more worthy news, such as; evil Tories eating in posh restaurants and a terrible case of a Tory mp using a bus which denies the seat to a Somali OAP.
Now move along and don’t forget to pay your tellytax.
That was a Labour MP denying a seat to an OAP
That was a black Labour MP contemptuously and callously causing suffering to white people who had paid for the bus and for his parasitism in their country. A real cuckoo in the nest.
Get some DDT. It “Disinfects Devious Trots”.
What about all the time we taxpayers pay for at the start of every meeting (and there will be lots of meetings) when the assembled rabble may have some time to worship their favourite sky-pixey?
…and meetings rarely if ever start at the advertised time, especially if some bigwig from HQ or the regional office is expected to attend.
We shall be going with the Unison story, if, and it’s still a big if, we report this at all.
Oh, and don’t worry our go betweens tell us that the few that will lose their jobs will be replaced ten-fold when we, err, labour get back in power.
Were petty, spitfull, and mean-minded like that, you know.
That’s a good point BBC.
The numbers won’t include all the fifth column that are in your place?
AT THE TAX PAYERS EXPENSE
I was not the only one this morning to comment on Toady’s piece about cutting funding for youth clubs:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/donatahuggins/100170910/for-the-bbc-the-big-society-is-just-a-right-wing-fantasy-but-actually-it-might-be-working/
Remember – socialists loathe society.
This explains why I did not notice when they all went shopping (strike) before Christmas.
For a split second I thought Dave Prentis was of Prentis McCabe, and that I’d been dragged into a satire, where they were producing a wheeze in exchange for a very large fee.
We are issuing a profits warning based on this, as we expect exploratory research based shopping trips to be on the decline.
What about our JL catalogue?
Lets keep this simple – this is all down to the Labour Party channelling taxpayers money to their backers – corruption pure and simple, and can be ranked along with the Union Modernisation Fund which again was a way of transferring tax payers money to the backers of the Labour Party. We will always here a lot about Ashcroft on the BBC but guaranteed we do not hear any analysis of this disgraceful cronyism
Jolly good, Simon. You have obviously done your homework.
John Terry found not guilty.
well was breaking about 50 minutes ago !!
Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle said he had heard a great deal of evidence to show Mr Terry was not a racist. In his written judgement, he said that after weighing the evidence it was “highly unlikely” that Mr Terry abused Mr Ferdinand in the manner he was accused of”.
The judge was persuaded by the evidence that Anton Ferdinand was indeed both black and a c u n t !
dat great ass o’ mine ain’t gonna rest ’til dem justice am dun!
D.Fatbott will be asking questions in HoC.
RAYYCISS!!!
Useful for something then?
Taking the above as a direct quote – the words “highly unlikely” give a false impression.
Whereas – Riddle and the legal fraternity don’t know that an equivalent statement would be that Terry was “just as likely” to have …..
The subtlety of the jargon is lost on many who fail to understand the English language and how it can be twisted to suit an agenda.
I reckon most intelligent people understand all too well the English language and how Labour, the unions and the BBC twist it to suit their agendas.
Well, D-U-U-H-H-H…
I was talking about this shite over sixty years ago!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language
The problem is George, the wrong people read your book too and took it upon themselves, to build a quite ghastly future for everyone, modelled on it.
Orwell meant it as a warning; they took it as an instruction.
Sanity from a judge? I don’t believe it.
Does this mean I can start calling people rude names again ?
Yes, and your father can deal drugs
Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle – in NOT a JUDGE – he’s a Magistrate – for those of you who have already confused his status.
Riddle no doubt can expect some kind of promotion seeing as he’s protected Terry’s ‘Commerical interests’.
Why do the unions have names that mean nothing like Unison? I have some suggestions for names that they could use …
1. Lichen
2. Remora
3. Yeast
These from a brand perspective would serve to explain their purpose better
Snottites – troglodyte and corrosive
Maleana?
?Chlamydia
Candida?
Pus, Leech or Suck.
Plague.
Consumption.
Swamp Fever.
I bet that ugly fat lying Union nurse Pilgrim wishes she had kept her big mouth shut.
Unfortunately the DNA will prevent thought such as that.
It will be that right wing rebel rouser gweeedo who done it
Toady, I am a chicken … and I’m going to lay an egg here … and here … and here …
John Terry cleared of racism against Anton Ferdinand
Armistice Agreement signed
On Harriet Harman’s website she states the following:
“Because I believe my constituents have a right to know what I spend on my work as MP, for many years I have published a breakdown of my expenditure in my annual report. ”
Last quoted figures on her website are 2008. I will check what she spent in 2011 in 2016 then.
Is my new wardrobe on there?
There appears to be a growing dislike of “trolls” on blogs by the left.
The left don’t like trolls because they cannot control them
I like the direct communication style of many trolls
Rather than pen a long critique of the leftist Unions it is more efficient to say they are a bunch of fucking parasites
Why use 4 words when 15,000 will suffice?
Brown = Link
It took us 16 years to put thousands of our union brothers in place in the government civil service and all public services at public expense, and we will fight for them on the beaches at Omaha or Obama – whatever.
Many years ago, before British Telecom – it was then the P.O. Engineering Dept., union officials were promoted to the status away above the people they purported to represent, even if they were thickos.
Which were the thickos? Union reps or the people they represented?
Both, and those who appointed them, and those who tolerated such nonsense.
•In one Whitehall department a staggering 2,660 Civil Servants were doing trade union work during their paid hours, including 563 trade union representatives working on Health & Safety
Does not compute …
For years I worked for one of the largest underwater engineering and diving companies in the offshore business, with operations worldwide.
The total size of the safety department, was less than 20 people.
How can Whitehall require more health and safety than commercial diving !!!
@Backwoodsman — I took it to mean TU reps who were civil servants working on health and safety legislation and governance, not those applying H&S within the department.
You have answered your own question. Whitehall is not a ‘ commercial ‘ operation and the culture is not to manage to turn a profit. They can thus have as many bed-wetters as possible all with very narrow job scopes. Probably a safety officer for paper clips
and a another one for staplers etc.
I agree with the sentiment, but not Guido’s arithmetic. You can’t claim that each Pilgrim costs double. If you sacked them all, you’d still need to employ someone to do their ‘real ‘ work (I’m assuming the work is worth doing). So the cost of the Pilgrims is simply what we’re paying them, not double.
Not so, the point being made is that we are ALREADY paying for someone else to do their job since they are not fulfilling the role themselves despite receiving a wage to do so.Now since someone else has to be employed it therefore costs the tax payer twice the amount as stated.
You may be correct mathematically BUT what Guido did not count was the cost of HR staff to deal with the Pilgrims. You can bet that there will be at least one HR person (probably more) needed to “dialogue” with the union reps and write up reports and attend meetings about the reports and so on …….
So probably Guido understates the real cost to us.
Under your own rules, that is not quite right either.
The purpose of union business is to extract more cash from the employer and/or to do less work.
Therefore we are paying for them to make the service, for which they ostensibly work, less efficient.
What that correlates to, I cannot say but it will be a figure and it will not be small. It could even be more than two times their cost.
Parasites! Leeches!
You thick c*nts don’t get it.
Anyone who’s been involved with their union at work realises that the full timers are the biggest obstacle to industrial action.
Remove this bureaucratic layer and you have the more millitant workers unrestrained influence. The people who should be railing against union full-timers aren’t right wing ‘libertarians’, but those on the left who reject ALL bosses, employers or union.
Guido’s maths are rather odd. He writes:
“This is fundamentally dishonest as it only takes into account one side of the picture. For every full-time pilgrim teacher, nurse or back-room pen-pusher that takes time off, the taxpayer has to pick up the tab twice by paying someone else to cover for them. For full-time pilgrims, the state ends up paying double the staffing costs.”
In such a case, the state pays 2 salaries and gets 1 person’s worth of work. The marginal cost of paying for the ‘pilgrim’ is therefore 1 salary.
Put it another way. If the ‘pilgrim’ is required to give up their pilgrimage and return to official duties, the only cost saved is the salary of the person previously hired to cover for them, i.e. 1 salary. So it’s not the union that is counting half the cost but Guido who’s counting double.
In other news, even if one staff member in 40 is doing union work, most of them will be doing a very small amount of it. For instance (declaration of interest!) I spend roughly 1 day per quarter on union business. [This is in connection with health and safety (boo, hiss) but it helps the organisation to meet legal duties laid on it by Parliament and to avoid prosecution or costly compensation claims.] There are far more union members doing small amounts of union work than working full or even half time for their unions. So 1 in 40 staff comes nowhere near to 1 in 40 staff days: 1 in 2000 would be nearer the mark.
“4% of the overall workforce or 1 in 25 people.”
I like the way you never talk down to your audience.