Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

WE ALREADY OWN IT
I recently applied for a job at ‘We Own It’, my position plainly made in
my application letter …
‘I would be very interested in being involved in ‘We Own It’,
as a socialist I agree with the aims of highlighting and possibly
stopping this short-term fix for governments with private
enterprise agendas who are in financial trouble – finding the
continued selling off of public services to the hyenas of the
entrepreneurial cesspit an abhorrence!
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Please consider me for the ‘communications assistant’ position
…’
Public authorities can offer a very good quality service but, currently that
is at a higher rate than private companies. The reason for this is that
public authorities pay workers the going rate for the job, have to pay
overtime rates and properly abide with employment regulations … and
then, as part of the bureaucratic bodge-nonsense that exists in the public
sector, some officer’s wages are inflated to be comparative with private
sector high-flyers ...
mid-June 2016