ruffneck23
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With you all in spirit and support today 
Feb 1st 2023 Right to Strike Day of Action
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Just an honest view of how things have seemed to me, but I didn't say I was definitely right and I hope I'm wrong - which I could well be. Unlike certain others on here I don't think I know everything and I don't think I'm always right.
maomao
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It was quite easy really. I could do that every day given half the chance. Better get up soon though.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Talk of connecting the strikes, extending the strikes, leads me back to thinking it's a tragedy Enough is Enough didn't become what it promised. The failure to get a continuing link between workplace action, communities and others is one of the enduring failures of British Labourism.I thought they sort of were? Map of events here:
I'm guessing the London one will be broader than just NEU?
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That's not having a go at E is E again and I did see they had an event yesterday, it's more that on days like today you particularly feel the absence.
You’ve retired? You jammy git!Having said all that, I only realised a couple of hours ago that it was on today and thought it was a bit late to nip round the local school to see if there was a picket. Particularly as I'd already had a spliff and whisky.Ah, retirement...
Bristol march and rally was quite jolly and big enough to stop the traffic on College Green for half an hour when they were setting off. The great thing about teachers being out is that it means there's a ton of kids and parents with nothing much to do aside from turn out and support the strike 
Bulk of people were NEU but there was a big bloc from the PCS and UCU. ASLEF had smaller numbers but I guess their pickets weren't quite so accessible for a march in town. Even my own IWW turned up to successfully lower the tone
Usual Trottery round the edges. Accepted some Swappie material on the basis that if I did then that would be someone else saved from feeling obliged to read it
Bulk of people were NEU but there was a big bloc from the PCS and UCU. ASLEF had smaller numbers but I guess their pickets weren't quite so accessible for a march in town. Even my own IWW turned up to successfully lower the tone
Usual Trottery round the edges. Accepted some Swappie material on the basis that if I did then that would be someone else saved from feeling obliged to read it
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Pretty much. I do a bit of teaching down in that London, though I've finished my Teesside job. It was an ill health thing really but I'm so ancient there was nothing to gain going down that route.You’ve retired? You jammy git!
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
It's not scabbing. If you're sick, you're sick. Make the fuckers pay for not turning up.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Decent turnout for the demo and rally here. Probably the biggest march I've seen in years here in Leicester. Yours truly was one of the speakers at the rally... poor bastards having to listen to me
Sorry to hear about the ill health. I'd retire tomorrow if I was able to. I can't believe I've got potentially another two decades to go. Not even sure I'd make it that far!
I thought you were in Manchester?Decent turnout for the demo and rally here. Probably the biggest march I've seen in years here in Leicester. Yours truly was one of the speakers at the rally... poor bastards having to listen to me
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Salford lad living in Leicester.
maomao
普費斯
We get docked 1\365th some of which would have been tax anyway and half the rest I get back through UC when I get paid less for the month so its barely worth it but I'll remember next time.
I like your posts as my politics aren't massively far away from yours. But there is a difference between recognising what is pragmatic in the present, or just doing the anarchist playbook of why unions are shit and won't deliver libertarian communism.
Did you ever know Keating then?
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Don't think so or can't remember. I left in 1980. I knew the Buzzcocks and John Cooper Clarke back then
SpookyFrank
Float like a caterpillar, sting like a tree
Everyone at my school is in the non-striking union. Only person who was off was home looking after their own kids and various others whose schools were closed.
As I'm agency staff I'm not technically allowed to go on strike. Which is bollocks and which I'd have happily ignored if anyone else was going out today.
As I'm agency staff I'm not technically allowed to go on strike. Which is bollocks and which I'd have happily ignored if anyone else was going out today.
Gets on my nerves how strikes can be split by different unions. I don't like ASLEF who feel they can just negotiate for drivers as trains not going out is the most power. They may have wished to have been RMT when driverless trains start appearing.
Rob Ray
Weight is meaningless
Same in Ipswich, I've not been around to be at more recent ones but I was chatting to a trades council bod who reckoned today was the biggest union rally in a decade plus. Very enthusiastic as well.
Given workers are involved in the biggest strikes in a generation, what are you doing to engage with them all to inform them where they’re going wrong?
ska invita
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