Look out Britain. Public sector job cuts are now on their way

The inevitability of sector jobs threatened for so long and for so often seems to be closer than ever according to a recent statement issued by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is warning.

The massive outflow of capital from the recognized sectors into propping up banks, building societies as well as industry has to come from somewhere. Cost cutting is expected to be rife and viscous and will amount to more than 300,000 employees in the public sector being made redundant over the next five years.

While all this seems sad but logical it would appear that Unison, the trade union for public service workers are no quite prepared to take this move lying down with their general secretary Dave Prentis hinting that support for the Labour party among members of the union was in a state of collapse. A poll recently taking among Unison card holders showed that support for Brown’s party had fallen to an all time low of 30 percent, down more than a quarter from the same time last year. Prentis went on to explain that “Public sector workers were always regarded as the heartlands of Labour, but that vote has collapsed,” he said.

It would appear that the mood in Unison, as in most of the major trade unions is that the age of austerity that the UK is slowing easing itself into means a gradual end to the greater job security and relative generous pay and pensions packages enjoyed by public sector workers. If a Labour government is prepared to make such dramatic cuts, then what would the Conservatives do if and when they get into power.

Anyone who remembers the winter of discontent of 1978-1979 where trade union strikes caused a massive loss of income and considerable discomfort to the UK public will not want the same thing to happen again. Yet Gordon Brown, ever the realist, knows that he is no longer guaranteed the support of the trade unions, especially if these job losses become a reality.

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