Best Union?

[johnny on the spot]

I was traipsing about Newcastle today and went past a closed nightspot which advertised vacancies in bright letters: 'Bar staff 7.50ph, shooter staff 7.00ph + commission per bottle sold', Dancers 8.50ph' On its next window: 'Football every weekend on Sky. The Finest Topless Girls in the Toon 6-11pm'

Saddened me to hell.

 

[BimboBob]

I was traipsing about Newcastle today and went past a closed nightspot which advertised vacancies in bright letters: 'Bar staff 7.50ph, shooter staff 7.00ph + commission per bottle sold', Dancers 8.50ph' On its next window: 'Football every weekend on Sky. The Finest Topless Girls in the Toon 6-11pm'

Saddened me to hell.

Why? Was it before 6pm? Couldn't you have hung around?

 

[andyhinch]

lets be honest fucking non. nowt but whinging troublemakers. they rip workers off by taking a cut out of their wage then strike and the workers get fuck all.
i'd never join a union, i can look after number one. which really what life is all about.

Trust me the way companies I'd recommend people join them, apart from anyone that works for me

 

[tidyman]

lets be honest fucking non. nowt but whinging troublemakers. they rip workers off by taking a cut out of their wage then strike and the workers get fuck all.
i'd never join a union, i can look after number one. which really what life is all about.

Maybe you're on a wind up or maybe not but either way there are a lot of people who think like that.

I would have a bit ( but not a lot) of respect for the first non member, who after the union had negotiated them a pay rise or improved conditions, informed their employer that they would like to stick to their old rate of pay, as they wouldn't want to be benefitting from anything a union they don't belong to had negotiated.

 

[Bill]

lets be honest fucking non. nowt but whinging troublemakers. they rip workers off by taking a cut out of their wage then strike and the workers get fuck all.
i'd never join a union, i can look after number one. which really what life is all about.

Maybe you're on a wind up or maybe not but either way there are a lot of people who think like that.

I would have a bit ( but not a lot) of respect for the first non member, who after the union had negotiated them a pay rise or improved conditions, informed their employer that they would like to stick to their old rate of pay, as they wouldn't want to be benefitting from anything a union they don't belong to had negotiated.

They moan like fuck to get rises and when the firm say we can't do it the unions bring the firm to a standstill, risking the company as a whole. Eventually the firm crack and give them the rises, six months down the line there are redundancies as the firm is now struggling. Well done the union.
Who loses their jobs? Not the fucking union leaders that's for sure.

 

[tidyman]

lets be honest fucking non. nowt but whinging troublemakers. they rip workers off by taking a cut out of their wage then strike and the workers get fuck all.
i'd never join a union, i can look after number one. which really what life is all about.

Maybe you're on a wind up or maybe not but either way there are a lot of people who think like that.

I would have a bit ( but not a lot) of respect for the first non member, who after the union had negotiated them a pay rise or improved conditions, informed their employer that they would like to stick to their old rate of pay, as they wouldn't want to be benefitting from anything a union they don't belong to had negotiated.

They moan like fuck to get rises and when the firm say we can't do it the unions bring the firm to a standstill, risking the company as a whole. Eventually the firm crack and give them the rises, six months down the line there are redundancies as the firm is now struggling. Well done the union.
Who loses their jobs? Not the fucking union leaders that's for sure.

Yeah, that is exactly what happens every single time a union negotiates for a pay rise.

Strikes purely over pay are very rare these days and its about 30 years since a union leader called a strike. Over anything.

 

[Grolsch30]

I worked for a large supermarket chain @ one of the distribuition centres.
I did not join the Union and from my experiance with what went on I still to this day dont understand how the company let the Union do what they please.

You could basically say that they ran the whole Transport department and the managers and bosses were shit scared of them!!!

Over every little thing the "workers" would go into the union office complain about this and that and in the end theyd get what they wanted.

I clearly remember a driver not getting his holiday authorised as there were already to many off in that period and the holiday book was full.

Anyway what do you think happened....

This guy never showed up one day so we had a look at his file and saw that his holiday time off had been rejected! so we reported it to the higher ups.

Did anything happen to the driver? did it fuck, he came back off his hols after 2 weeks and started his shift pattern as if nothing happened.

I got the info that this guy went to see his union cronies after the holiday had been rejected and the union guys just told him to take his holiday regardless!!! and thats what he did.

The company did sweet FA which I just cant understand.

The union made certain departments life very shit places to work in and they make grown feckin adults into cry babies who go running into the arms of their union mothers because they had to actually work their contractual hours for once.


Unions fuck em.

 

[Andy Dale]

Maybe you're on a wind up or maybe not but either way there are a lot of people who think like that.

I would have a bit ( but not a lot) of respect for the first non member, who after the union had negotiated them a pay rise or improved conditions, informed their employer that they would like to stick to their old rate of pay, as they wouldn't want to be benefitting from anything a union they don't belong to had negotiated.

They moan like fuck to get rises and when the firm say we can't do it the unions bring the firm to a standstill, risking the company as a whole. Eventually the firm crack and give them the rises, six months down the line there are redundancies as the firm is now struggling. Well done the union.
Who loses their jobs? Not the fucking union leaders that's for sure.

Yeah, that is exactly what happens every single time a union negotiates for a pay rise.

Strikes purely over pay are very rare these days and its about 30 years since a union leader called a strike. Over anything.

Err.... tube and train drivers, immigration staff , airport workers.
Conveniently timed to cause mass disruption to the biggest event in this country for years.
And yes the bus drivers of London got their £550 bonus.
I hope Boris fires the fucking lot after the closing ceremony.

 

[pauldominic]

I worked for a large supermarket chain @ one of the distribuition centres.
I did not join the Union and from my experiance with what went on I still to this day dont understand how the company let the Union do what they please.

You could basically say that they ran the whole Transport department and the managers and bosses were shit scared of them!!!

Over every little thing the "workers" would go into the union office complain about this and that and in the end theyd get what they wanted.

I clearly remember a driver not getting his holiday authorised as there were already to many off in that period and the holiday book was full.

Anyway what do you think happened....

This guy never showed up one day so we had a look at his file and saw that his holiday time off had been rejected! so we reported it to the higher ups.

Did anything happen to the driver? did it fuck, he came back off his hols after 2 weeks and started his shift pattern as if nothing happened.

I got the info that this guy went to see his union cronies after the holiday had been rejected and the union guys just told him to take his holiday regardless!!! and thats what he did.

The company did sweet FA which I just cant understand.

The union made certain departments life very shit places to work in and they make grown feckin adults into cry babies who go running into the arms of their union mothers because they had to actually work their contractual hours for once.


Unions fuck em.

British Aerospace have always been shit scared of the unions and a withdrawal of labour or a work to rule.

It depends on circumstances, but always join a union or a professional association.

 

[chris_m]

They moan like fuck to get rises and when the firm say we can't do it the unions bring the firm to a standstill, risking the company as a whole. Eventually the firm crack and give them the rises, six months down the line there are redundancies as the firm is now struggling. Well done the union.
Who loses their jobs? Not the fucking union leaders that's for sure.

Yeah, that is exactly what happens every single time a union negotiates for a pay rise.

Strikes purely over pay are very rare these days and its about 30 years since a union leader called a strike. Over anything.

Err.... tube and train drivers, immigration staff , airport workers.
Conveniently timed to cause mass disruption to the biggest event in this country for years.
And yes the bus drivers of London got their £550 bonus.
I hope Boris fires the fucking lot after the closing ceremony.

That's because the only way a strike will work is if it causes inconvenience. What's the point in a strike if noone notices?
The only power the working class have is that of withdrawal of labour, and it scares the bosses shitless. Long live the unions