Do you support the RMT?

[Eccles Blue]

Even by this absolute excuse of a human beings standards this is quite a low

I appreciate that as I get older I tend to get more emotional rather than pragmatic but this made me cry, not just for the people on strike but in anger at the detestable person.
The man is a vile, leeching, piece of turd on my shoe. If he was in my vicinity I would genuinely slap his smirking, reprehensible, ugly mug and would make sure I was wearing a boxing glove at the time.



Sorry, I don't believe in violence but there is a breaking point even for me!! Plus if any of those words are swear words I double apologise.

 

[bluethrunthru]

 

[Eccles Blue]

Honest - not read the article but the picture generally brought a tear to my eye - solidarity with our firefighting brothers and sisters.

As someone who lost a fire fighting family member in a fire in Birmingham a few years ago and watched his mother, my aunt, bravely accept this plus the way his friends rallied round her and her family I am with you @bluethrunthru I will always back the Fire Fighters.

 

[bluethrunthru]

I appreciate that as I get older I tend to get more emotional rather than pragmatic but this made me cry, not just for the people on strike but in anger at the detestable person.
The man is a vile, leeching, piece of turd on my shoe. If he was in my vicinity I would genuinely slap his smirking, reprehensible, ugly mug and would make sure I was wearing a boxing glove at the time.



Sorry, I don't believe in violence but there is a breaking point even for me!! Plus if any of those words are swear words I double apologise.

You have to take into account the fact that McKenzie is a R/W nut job who thinks his opinion counts. He doesn't think of the consequences of any of his ideas which is why the Sun doesn't sell on Merseyside and in this instance the idea that locking all rail workers out somehow fixes the issue - if fixing the rail strikes and getting the country back to work is done by shutting the network down in his head you can see how stupid he is.

As for the violence you are excused - I too would willingly deck the ****.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Big picture is that you and countless others are essentially being asked to accept a 1% pay rise (or none at all), work longer hours and pay more tax, so that striking public sector workers and those in heavily unionised areas can receive 10%-plus pay rises.

That’s pretty much the long and short of it. Oh, and if you can bib your horn when you’re driving past the picket lines on the way to work, they’d really appreciate it.

No you are been asked to accept that because you are in a job with no union, paying for the mismanagement of the economy of the last 12 years, paying for debt by a government who have lined the pockets of countless mates and companies throughout a pandemic and more. Let’s blame the public sector who’ve had fuck all in rises during Austerity paying for private sector mistakes (remember them bankers etc), so don’t blame public sector wanting a fair wage and pay if your company can’t afford to pay you more, that’s just what they want, divide and conquer.

 

[mexico1970]

No you are been asked to accept that because you are in a job with no union, paying for the mismanagement of the economy of the last 12 years, paying for debt by a government who have lined the pockets of countless mates and companies throughout a pandemic and more. Let’s blame the public sector who’ve had fuck all in rises during Austerity paying for private sector mistakes (remember them bankers etc), so don’t blame public sector wanting a fair wage and pay if your company can’t afford to pay you more, that’s just what they want, divide and conquer.

You're blaming private sector mistakes on all private sector employees and not just bankers? Most people in the private sector don't have unions, this is what people don't like, the underlying nastiness of it all when someone has a differing opinion.

 

[bluethrunthru]

You're blaming private sector mistakes on all private sector employees and not just bankers? Most people in the private sector don't have unions, this is what people don't like, the underlying nastiness of it all when someone has a differing opinion.

Private sector workers can join a union though. There is nothing stopping them. Except their own prejudices I have found in my experience

 

[mexico1970]

Private sector workers can join a union though. There is nothing stopping them. Except their own prejudices I have found in my experience

They can join a union that hasn't any real power or a decently big enough membership to make a difference, now you are calling non public workers prejudiced?

Can you see why the public couldn't give a fuck sometimes?

 

[bluethrunthru]

They can join a union that hasn't any real power or a decently big enough membership to make a difference, now you are calling non public workers prejudiced?

Can you see why the public couldn't give a fuck sometimes?

If a sufficient number of workers in a workplace join a union that union can then seek to be recognised by the employer. That applies in the public and private sector. There is no prejudice for either sector.

Those not giving a fuck are allowed to not give a fuck but they have to accept when they bleat about strikes and the better terms and conditions of organised workforces that they are worse off because they didn't give a fuck. Reap what you sow.

 

[Brewster's millions]

No you are been asked to accept that because you are in a job with no union, paying for the mismanagement of the economy of the last 12 years, paying for debt by a government who have lined the pockets of countless mates and companies throughout a pandemic and more. Let’s blame the public sector who’ve had fuck all in rises during Austerity paying for private sector mistakes (remember them bankers etc), so don’t blame public sector wanting a fair wage and pay if your company can’t afford to pay you more, that’s just what they want, divide and conquer.

So in your world view, you seem to believe that there are only two sectors in the economy, and two types of workers, namely public and private.

And regardless of where you work in the private sector, what job you do, how much you get paid, whether you can have your heating on or eat properly, you have to pay ever higher levels of tax and work longer so that public sector workers can receive what you judge to be a fair rate of pay, and be completely insulated from rising inflation.

This logic presumably extends to the postal and rail workers that are on strike as well, because workers in non unionised sectors are fair game, and have to pay for other peoples’ pay rises, even when the rail workers are well paid to begin with. And you’re the one calling out companies for dividing and conquering?