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IOD Plan Rubbish Says GMB

Monday 7th February 2011

 

THE INSTITUTE OF DIRECTORS ARE"EXTREMIST FUNDAMENTALISTS" ON SOCIAL ANDECONOMIC ISSUES SO THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD FILE THEIR IDEAS IN THE WASTE BIN

 

IOD ideas for growth are a load of rubbish says GMB

 

GMB commented on proposals on growth published by the Institute of Directors ( IOD).

 

Paul Kenny GMB General Secretary said "The Institute of Directors are rightly seen as "extremist fundamentalists" when it comes to social and economic issues. The government should take little time in filing these ideas in the waste bin. What a load of rubbish"

 

Brian Strutton GMB National Secretary for Public Services added "The IOD claim to want to make it easier for firms to employ people but actually put forward a series of proposals just to make it easier to sack them – if anything this would increase unemployment.

 

IOD say they want to reform public services but in fact they ask for the NHS and state education to be scrapped and replaced by the private sector – replacing public service with the profit motive.

 

IOD say they want to end national collective pay bargaining in health and education – ignoring the fact that statutory independent review bodies set pay in these sectors not collective bargaining.

 

The IoD's real agenda in this so-called plan is to ask for tax breaks and other financial perks which they want be funded by even more public sector cutbacks.

 

These plans are a mixture of extreme political dogma and pure greed which will add to the dole queues and swell the wallets of the bosses. "

 

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Contact Brian Strutton 07860 606137 or 0208 947 3131 or GMB Press Office, Steve Pryle 07921 289880 or Rose Conroy 07974 251 823

 

 

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