Friday, Jan 27th 2012
Effort to Rein In Pay on Wall Street Hits New Hurdle - NYTimes.com
Return of the Big Bonus on Wall Street: "A guaranteed bonus might strike many people as a contradiction in terms. But on Wall Street, banks have become so eager to lure and keep top deal makers and traders that they are reviving the [...]
Maybe it’s the Leveller in me, but when times are hard we should all put our shoulder to the wheel, share out the pain and protect the lesser able in our community. Listening to the great debate over wages you’d think that everyone was a Leveller. There is so much ‘share the pain’ going around [...]
However, given the enormous scale of the problem, it would be fanciful to suppose that it can be solved without at least some reductions in public spending, and anyone who doubts this cannot really be regarded as a serious participant in the public discourse on the matter.’
Well, that put us in our place. Not only [...]
Following on from the unalloyed success of the 2006 convention, the member of the Dublin Psychogeographical Society unanimously agreed that no further meetings should take place until all temptation to build on that success had been extinguished in full. The call to hubris thus went unheeded for two entire years, even though demand was such [...]
After they read my objective and accurate description of France last week on this very site, the French Tourist Board was being so impressed that they invite me to come to their country’s capital, Paris, to see for myself how much efforts they have been making in the past seven days in order to improve [...]
‘Shell snaps its fingers and the State hops to it’ | Maura Harrington
In Bellmullet court on Thursday, five Shell to Sea protesters were up for hearings on charges ranging from last August 2008 to this June 2009. Judge Anderson dismissed several charges on technical points but was very harsh in serving two of the campaigners [...]
Thomas Cook chief Manny Fontenla-Novoa wins £5m bonus - Telegraph
Thomas Cook chief executive Manny Fontenla-Novoa has booked a £5m bonus for meeting synergy targets after cutting 2,800 jobs at the tour operator following its 2007 merger with MyTravel.
Myths about public service pay not helpful - The Irish Times - Tue, Aug 04, 2009
TOM GERAGHTY of the Public Service Executive Union on the misinformation surrounding the call to cut public service pay:
"While the McCarthy agenda is driven by the country’s fiscal position, others argue that we need to cut pay rates generally. Dr [...]
Last month, Seán O’Riain wrote a post for progressive economy, which used the Quarterly Household Survey (Q1 2009 ) to throw some light on the class aspects of the recent rise in unemployment in Ireland.
the major trend that stands out is the disastrous collapse in working class employment with growing differences between the position of [...]
