Police to vote on strike powers

8:44am Friday 2nd November 2012 in News

POLICE officers will vote on whether they want full industrial rights in the New Year.
 

Officers forego certain employment rights, such as the right to strike, in exchange for better pensions after a 30 year career.
 

But the pensions are being reduced and the length of career extended meaning officers are losing the advantages but still keeping the disadvantages.
 

Mark Smith, chairman of the Essex Police Federation, said officers do not want to strike but are angry at their treatment by the Government.
 

The Police Federation will organise the ballot by the end of February.

Comments(7)

Sdapeze says...
9:10am Fri 2 Nov 12

My brother-in-law is an ex-cop and he is very comfortably off now in retirement. He takes more now in a pension than a sergeant would now actually doing the job. There has to be something wrong about that surely. As to giving them the right to strike, I 100% oppose that, for obvious reasons.

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The Yellow Peril says...
9:18am Fri 2 Nov 12

Sounds very wrong but you can see why people working in the public sector fight for their pensions. The truth is that public sector jobs are paid the same if not more than private sector, but people working in the private sector have worse (if any) pensions and no right to fight.

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Boris says...
11:58am Fri 2 Nov 12

Of course the police should regain the right to strike, which they foolishly gave up in 1919 in exchange for decent pay. Now the pay is going to be less decent, they deserve to have the means to campaign effectively to prevent further erosion of their conditions.
As for the private sector, the answer to poor pensions is to join the relevant union and fight for improvements. People in the past were prepared to struggle to better their lives, so why won't they do so now?

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The Yellow Peril says...
12:07pm Fri 2 Nov 12

Probably because you feel lucky to have a job. If you cause trouble in the private sector then you rarely benefit from it.

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Reginald47 says...
10:18pm Fri 2 Nov 12

Note - first time the police strike send the burglars round to Boris's.

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Boris says...
12:09am Sat 3 Nov 12

Reginald47 wrote:
Note - first time the police strike send the burglars round to Boris's.
Burglars are operating all the time, with or without the police. The best defence against burglars is to have little that they would want to steal.

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Boris says...
12:14am Sat 3 Nov 12

The Yellow Peril wrote:
Probably because you feel lucky to have a job. If you cause trouble in the private sector then you rarely benefit from it.
Being in a union doesn't mean you are out to cause trouble. It just means that you have a body representing you which is bigger and stronger than you on your own. I worked in the private sector for almost all my working life and for most of that time I was in the relevant union. I never had to strike. Our union was very moderate and the employer was happy to deal with it.

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