To the Arctic and beyond……
To-day we leave to travel to the Arctic, then on to Northern Norway where we pick up a ship and travel down the Norwegian coast to Bergen….on the journey we celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary.
What will have happened by the time we return in three weeks we ask ourselves?
Will there be industrial action by local authority workers?
If there is a settlement the government and local authorities must also realise that independent providers have only been paid a 2.5% uplift and that had to include additional payment for increased holiday allowance…which meant that to increase wages profit margins have to decrease.
You can’t have something for nothing, we all know that. With increased regulatory and training requirements costs are increasing all the time.
The action by local authority workers is a wake up call ………quality services cost money to provide, we all saw how the tanker drivers held everyone to ransom, we are all now counting the cost of their actions.
There was a previous labour prime minister that suffered at the hands of the trade unions, we will wait and see what is happening on our return with interest.