Strike!

[newfhouse]

Thick as mince Tory self owns despite Fiona Bruce’s best efforts.

View: https://twitter.com/femi_sorry/status/1540095195013959684?s=21&t=8xBSpEf2FcBmMVn_kIaCyg

 

[FishFright]

So what are my opinions ? Do tell..

Yawn.

I think you'll find he's been a irrelevance full stop....but if you know different please share it ?

How long until he manages to blame Corbyn for the strikes ?

 

[Cirrus]

Thick as mince Tory self owns despite Fiona Bruce’s best efforts.

View: https://twitter.com/femi_sorry/status/1540095195013959684?s=21&t=8xBSpEf2FcBmMVn_kIaCyg

Never interrupt an enemy when they are making aa mistake....

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

How long until he manages to blame Corbyn for the strikes ?

I think you will find that it turns out to be the fault of the last Labour government and the worldwide credit crunch that they created

 

[Craig the cyclist]

New lol. I've been a member of a Union since I was 15.Two at the moment as I'm working for Royal Mail for a while.See how long the love in lasts when it results in a delay on someone's holidays.
Bromance 🙄

This is exactly what I was saying on the P&O thread, and you all had a right go at me about it.

The general public are all for supporting workers, right up until it actually impacts them, then the support stops and the anger begins. I see the P&O dispute has, as I prophesied, now disappeared into the past and people are enjoying cheap ferries to France. No one seems to give a shoot about the 800 or so people who lost their jobs anymore.

Soon the RMT will agree a lower pay deal, the flip will be they have to agree to job losses, and no-one will give the slightest shoot about the people who lose their jobs.

Unions are a waste of time, a weird throwback to the past when dinosaurs walked the earth. I am extremely proud to say I have never been in a union at any time in my life.

 

[newfhouse]

I am extremely proud to say I have never been in a union at any time in my life

Then you’re a weird freeloader. I hope you have also refused every improvement in pay or conditions that you haven’t personally negotiated.

 

[BoldonLad]

Then you’re a weird freeloader. I hope you have also refused every improvement in pay or conditions that you haven’t personally negotiated.

Does that apply only to Union Membership, or, is it applicable to any area where person takes the benefit (in whatever form) without contributing?

 

[newfhouse]

Does that apply only to Union Membership, or, is it applicable to any area where person takes the benefit (in whatever form) without contributing?

It’s commonplace. I found being proud of it startling.

 

[Deleted member 49]

Unions are a waste of time, a weird throwback to the past when dinosaurs walked the earth. I am extremely proud to say I have never been in a union at any time in my life.

I never thought anything else....I bet you feck off home early when it's your round aswell ?

 

[BoldonLad]

It’s commonplace. I found being proud of it startling.

That doesn’t answer my question

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Unions are a waste of time, …

At the risk of going a bit Monty Python…

What have the unions ever done for us?

Weekends off
Equal pay
Safer working conditions
Holiday entitlement
Holiday pay
Maternity pay
Paternity pay
Minimum wage
Living wage
Flexible working hours
Equal opportunities
End of child labour
Shorter working hours

Would you rather not have any of those?

Do you imagine you, individually, could have secured even one of those benefits were it not for the collective bargaining power of unions that were standing up for all workers, including non-members?

[edited to insert missing quote]

 

[Deleted member 49]

It’s commonplace. I found being proud of it startling.

Example ?

 

[Rusty Nails]

Does that apply only to Union Membership, or, is it applicable to any area where person takes the benefit (in whatever form) without contributing?

Generally yes, if a person could have contributed but deliberately chooses to opt out of contributing and the benefit has been gained through the endeavours of an organisation which their peers have funded for that purpose.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Example ?

Only one third of those in employment are in unions. In one specific example only 48% of teachers/heads are in unions.

 

[Deleted member 49]

Only one third of those in employment are in unions. In one specific example only 48% of teachers/heads are in unions.

Sorry don't know how I did that I was asking about this.....

Does that apply only to Union Membership, or, is it applicable to any area where person takes the benefit (in whatever form) without contributing?