30/11 Strikes.

wildman said:
There is responsibility to be had on both sides, 1. Unions need to understand the current position this country is in financially and why some belt tightening is needed.
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This is my point exactly the fact that they're unwilling to listen is the problem.

wildman said:
2. Government needs to understand that pulling the rug completely from under the public sector is not the answer and should work on a mutually agreed position that involves not completed shafting everyone.
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The govt. isn't doing that they've offered them a deal that is as much as they can afford without making **** worse they've even modified it to the strikers benefit several times but no irt's not good enough so far as the 25% of members who voted in favor of the stike are concerned thats what really aggravates me is thew fact the majority didn't want to strike.
 
dirtydog said:
Apparently almost all Job Centres are open as well. Looks like the strike is an epic fail at the moment :)
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1) The Daily Mail forgets to make clear that the only reason Heathrow is processing passengers so quickly is because the airlines were so effective at reducing their incoming loads, at the request of the government.

2) I'd say the teacher's strike has been pretty effective, with most schools closing today.

3) lol you're using the Daily Mail to get your facts on a day of public sector strikes.
 
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By TREVOR KAVANAGH

THE industrial landscape has changed dramatically since union barons last challenged a government's right to govern.

The dinosaurs who dominated the 20th century are extinct. So are the giant state-owned industries, wrecked by Marxists like Arthur Scargill.

In his memoirs Hugh Scanlon, Communist boss of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers in the 1970s, admitted union Reds were out to bring the UK to its knees. Jack Jones, who led the TGWU, was on the payroll of the Kremlin's sinister KGB.

So we cannot lightly dismiss Education supremo Michael Gove's warning that today's public sector unions are out to sabotage the recovery. This is their best chance to cripple a Tory-led Government and restore the power that once helped them reign supreme.

Under Labour the state workforce grew by a million with enviable job security, inflation-proof pensions and salaries £3,500 higher than the private sector. Union leaders see their members as hand-reared Labour voters who can be relied on to bite the hand that feeds them.

Yet three-quarters did NOT vote for this strike. They know, in these troubled times, the pension offer is fair.

Is it possible this century's union firebrands will turn out to be as deluded, and defeated, as the last?
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/3968410/Strike-hit-customs-manned-by-vets.html

Hear hear
 
regulus said:
They're students so by association a lot of them are morons with ZERO real life experience by default. They'll do anything as long as it's leftest, hip, cool and an opportunity to 'stick it to the man' 90% of them would have no idea what the strike it about but hey, never let an opportunity pass to wave a few banners about, kick a few doors and hopefully get your pasty mug in the local rag.

I wouldn't hold my hopes up.
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I like how you managed to simultaneously agree with and insult them :p
 
My Nan was sent home from hospital yesterday after only one day in there care , she has been in hospital 3 times this year all the other times for at least a week.

Apparently they were sending loads of patients home because of the strikes.

Although they said she would get the same treatment at home as she would in hospital by giving her the required medication.

How can certain sectors live with themselves if something happens to a patient they send home early because of a stupid strike!!!
 
You out causing trouble today Permabanned?

*Sigh* Still no response from my President, I bet if I emailed him asking about something trivial I'd get a response in minutes. SU Facebook page updated and suggesting that us students get behind the strikers and join the march. If they had looked for widespread support from the student population and held a vote or something, then I wouldn't have a problem. However, they haven't and I find it quite displeasing that they are associating all students with their views.
 
topshot said:
lol Strike Fail. All packed up and gone from the school here now, must have got tired :rolleyes:
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I only man picket lines upto 10am - what's the point in staying later? Those that are going to atte,pt to cross a picket line would have done so by then - who turns up for work after 10am? Earlier in the case of a school.
 
Ahleckz said:
You out causing trouble today Permabanned?
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Doubt it, but my parents are ;)

Ahleckz said:
*Sigh* Still no response from my President, I bet if I emailed him asking about something trivial I'd get a response in minutes. SU Facebook page updated and suggesting that us students get behind the strikers and join the march. If they had looked for widespread support from the student population and held a vote or something, then I wouldn't have a problem. However, they haven't and I find it quite displeasing that they are associating all students with their views.
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Because the president of an entire union isn't going to have anything better to do with their time than to reply to every email they get?

I don't see how you can have a problem with them just suggesting as such, it's not like they've actually called a strike without a vote.
 
Prime Minister David Cameron says the strike "looks something like a damp squib", quoting reports suggesting 40% of schools are open, less than a third of the civil service is on strike and only 18 Job Centres closed.
 
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