Unite protest outside City Academy Construction Site

[johnbmcr]

Fuck Unions, I was laid off by Network rail. They did not give a fuck. When contacted about my appeal they did'nt turn up for. The only answer I got was "we forgot". Not even a sorry. Union leaders are like MP's in it for what they can get. Plus I hope the old man was hurt & charged with criminal damage. If it had been a football match he would have been arrested & banned.

I understand your frustration , mate.
That is unacceptable behaviour from your Union, but let's be careful about generalising too much from one case.

no doubt there are union hacks who are lazy and on the take, but try to imagine how the workers in this country (or any other ) would have done without the unions

TBH
we have most of what we have because of them

leave it to the market and you'll be thrown out of work as the company moves operations to unregulated countries in the developing worl with no H&S culture at all.....

cue massive the Bhopal gas emissions (1980's)
South american miners lost in landslides (1990's)

Cue
Bangladeshi textile mill building collapse last week

Welcome to the Past......

Like Joni Mitchell said,

you don't know what you'vr got 'til it's gone...

Think she was singing about trees not football academy's<br /><br />-- Wed May 15, 2013 9:11 pm --<br /><br />

Fuck Unions, I was laid off by Network rail. They did not give a fuck. When contacted about my appeal they did'nt turn up for. The only answer I got was "we forgot". Not even a sorry. Union leaders are like MP's in it for what they can get. Plus I hope the old man was hurt & charged with criminal damage. If it had been a football match he would have been arrested & banned.

I understand your frustration , mate.
That is unacceptable behaviour from your Union, but let's be careful about generalising too much from one case.

no doubt there are union hacks who are lazy and on the take, but try to imagine how the workers in this country (or any other ) would have done without the unions

TBH
we have most of what we have because of them

leave it to the market and you'll be thrown out of work as the company moves operations to unregulated countries in the developing worl with no H&S culture at all.....

cue massive the Bhopal gas emissions (1980's)
South american miners lost in landslides (1990's)

Cue
Bangladeshi textile mill building collapse last week

Welcome to the Past......

Like Joni Mitchell said,

you don't know what you'vr got 'til it's gone...

Think she was singing about trees not football academy's

 

[akcity]

If any fucking dickhead jumps on a car I'm driving I hope they're padded up like an American Footballer player for their own sake.

Absolutely 100% this!!

 

[lancs blue]

I can understand their grievance and why they protest about it and no doubt they chose the Academy site for the publicity but blocking the road and jumping on cars is bang out of order.

 

[mat]

I hope it was no one here that did this.

Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 22:40:22 +0100
Subject: Blacklist hero: George Tapp deliberately run down by car in Manchester blacklist demo
From: blacklistsg@gmail.com
To:

64 year old Unite member and leading blacklist campaigner George Tapp is in Manchester Royal Infirmary hospital tonight with 2 broken legs and a fractured knee cap after a car drove through a crowd of protesters at full speed outside Manchester City FC.

George was at the Blacklist Support Group AGM and alongside Steve Acheson negotiated a blacklist ban at Salford Council last month.

2 other blacklisted workers protesting against blacklisting firm Bam were also hit by the deliberate hit and run but only suffered minor injuries.


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[scall11]

Blacklisting is awful.

If you raise H&S concerns on a site, you get blacklisted. If you are a shop steward, or try to do much union work, you're blacklisted. You are put on a list of people who will never work for big projects again.

Its terrible.

Tradesmen have had their lives ruined for reporting major concerns about safety practices on a site to their managers.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Just got home after being trapped in traffic for fifteen minutes outside the Academy construction site on the New Road. Members of the Unite union made a picket line that spanned the entire road and were using banners to stop traffic. There was a huge backlog of traffic.

I was towards the front going towards Droylsden and saw a car trying to force their way through the picket line. Two blokes actually jumped on the bloke's bonnet as he drove through them, got to just before Alan Turing Way when he hit the brakes and the two protesters were flung off, one was quite an elderly bloke and lay prone on the floor as the car sped off without even checking if he was okay.

Does anybody know what this was about as I was in too much of a rush to pull up and find out/read the banners?

His own fault.

In complete agreement, he shouldn't be throwing himself onto the bonnet of a moving vehicle to prevent picket crossing. Yet he's still a human being - the decent thing to have done is check that he's okay. Nothing is worth a human life.

Why get out so the other Unite members can then assault him, if people are jumping on cars I wouldnt be stopping
Fucking loonies

 

[Chippy_boy]

Blacklisting is awful.

If you raise H&S concerns on a site, you get blacklisted. If you are a shop steward, or try to do much union work, you're blacklisted. You are put on a list of people who will never work for big projects again.

Its terrible.

Tradesmen have had their lives ruined for reporting major concerns about safety practices on a site to their managers.

On the face of it what you say seems very reasonable and I would have to agree.

But, playing devil's advocate for just one moment... What about known trouble makers - and I have known a few. Is it not reasonable for companies to want to avoid hiring them?

I can see both sides to be honest.

 

[gazinho]

Once again the Bluemoon jury have hung, drawn and quartered some innocent bloke because he 'jumped on somebodys bonnet' if anyone bothered to find out the truth which is in Mat's post they may change their mind about the fella deserving everything he got!

As for the protest while stupid to do it spanning a main road it would normally draw peoples attention to the plight being suffered by many people up and down the country due to illegal blacklisting.

 

[mat]

Once again the Bluemoon jury have hung, drawn and quartered some innocent bloke because he 'jumped on somebodys bonnet' if anyone bothered to find out the truth which is in Mat's post they may change their mind about the fella deserving everything he got!

As for the protest while stupid to do it spanning a main road it would normally draw peoples attention to the plight being suffered by many people up and down the country due to illegal blacklisting.

This.

 

[Challenger1978]

Once again the Bluemoon jury have hung, drawn and quartered some innocent bloke because he 'jumped on somebodys bonnet' if anyone bothered to find out the truth which is in Mat's post they may change their mind about the fella deserving everything he got!

As for the protest while stupid to do it spanning a main road it would normally draw peoples attention to the plight being suffered by many people up and down the country due to illegal blacklisting.

You mean one side of the truth.