Strike Settled
The Government of Shalampax has reached an agreement with the Shalampax Civil Service Union to end the 13-month-old strike of government employees. The union members ratified the agreement in a vote today.
The government agreed to 100 percent of the union’s original demands. That’s not surprising as the union had, from the beginning, voluntarily offered to accept a 10 percent wage cut, with no new perks or job guarantees and no reduction in “work” hours.
A government spokesperson said that the strike could have been ended much earlier, but nobody realized that the government’s employees had been on strike.
The employees will be at their desks effective Monday. They are relieved to be going back as that will allow them to catch up on their sleep.
As it goes in Shalampax, so should the rest of the world.
@MadMadMargo: You’d better be careful where you say that. If people in the world beyond Shalampax know you feel that way you might be institutionalized. In Shalampax, being institutionalized would be redundant.
@Birdinhand
Why do you think they call me “mad”?
@MadMadMargo: I think I might have mentioned this before, but you’re our type of woman; which is not something to brag about.
When will the President of Shalampax be awarding the national medal of honor to the government and union chief negotiators for bringing this burgeoning crisis to a successful conclusion?
We have a Prime Minister, not a President. In addition, we have no honor in Shalampax, so no medals of honor. He’ll probably give them a firm handshake when he wakes up from his extended nap.