It is hard to see what precisely qualifies the siren voices of the HR lobby to influence public policy on the collective rights of millions of public service workers? Certainly they have had very little to say over the past 30 years as trade union rights have been stripped away to the point where UK employment law is ‘the most restrictive in the western world’ according to former PM Tony Blair.
Yet that doesn’t stop the spin doctors at the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) from once again upping the ante on the question of strikes in essential public services. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10888785
The BBC reports that the CIPD is calling on the Con Dem Government to ‘consider tightening laws on strike ballots’ in order to reduce ‘the risk of disruptive and damaging industrial action by public service employees, such as banning strike action of those involved in the delivery of essential services’.
The irony of course is that the CIPD has nothing to say about the disruptive and damaging effects on communities of cuts in essential public services. Nor on the ruined lives of the hundreds of thousands of workers facing redundancy because of those cuts.
It seems that for the well paid hacks at the CIPD busy currying favour with Government ministers, human resources is more about workplace enslavement than workforce empowerment.
