Up the Workers
Sergeant Says has a call to action on his blog regarding the ‘police pay issue‘. He reckons we should all go to Parliament Square on the 18th December & meet all the MPs leaving parliament on their way home for their usual 3-week Christmas break.
The Police Federation have other ideas, this Wednesday they intend to hold another meeting whereby all the Police Federation reps will have an all expenses paid jolly up to London on the strength of the monthly fees I pay.
I quote from the Met Fed’s website:
Next Wednesday, representatives of every Federation in England and Wales will be meeting in central London to examine how a powerful, coherent and sustainable strategy can be devised and implemented. We will ensure that the strength of our members’ feelings is made very clear.
Meanwhile, the Police Federation of England and Wales is already exploring the possibility of a legal challenge to Home Secretary’s interference.
Yeah, Ok then. They’ll actually just sit around saying how disgusted they all are, someone will do a TV interview saying how disgusted they are the the government’s treatment of all us hard-working police officers. Some government mouthpiece will say how proud they are of our great police service and then spout some drivel about fiscal policy. And then precisely nothing will happen.
Perhaps we all ought to turn up on Gordon’s lawn on the 18th. I’ll see if I can get the Federation to fund my trip down there.
whichendbites says:
You forgot the bit about the feds & Acpo coming out and reminding us that we are a professional body and are expected to be professional and provide a high quality service, have the highest of standards blah de blah de blah etc etc etc and conveniently numbing down how we can be shafted over our pay, without any leverage at all on the decision makers who cream off the high life and dictate their own conditions yet expect everyone else to play by their rules.
The bonuses are in place for the bosses to ensure delivery of the chosen targets, the political machinery is in place to ensure that the appropriately chosen yes men are in place to carry out the political will. They are not the ones who deliver the job on the streets for all the associated risks. They are the talkers not the doers.
Lets face it 200, we got no clout and have been well and truly done over. Absolutely no industrial muscle and no likelyhood of a revolution. The rules won’t change and the only thing that will change things will be all the little X’s the next time the boxes of choice arrive. A lot more people, as well as us, are pretty pissed off with the current mob. A lot more are going to feel the same in the future.
They will continue to try to promote the brand without realising that the brand has a flaw because they choose not to see it. The spin won’t allow it. They will be having single crewed ambulances next.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
200 says:
That comment seems somehow more deserving of a response which simply says “here, here” but I’ll say it anyway, “here, here!”
December 12th, 2007 at 2:33 am