Jeremy Corbyn's time is up

[two sheds]

They have a "Graphical, Paper, Media & Information Technology " section which i'd just about fit under (i'd probably only really just fit in NUJ but we'll let that pass).

 

[mauvais]

I think it would be haggling over the details of contract law. The prominence of the notice that you can 'vote in membership elections' vs the unlikelihood of reading the entire rulebook would be likely to swing it I think. Though again it's law and there are so many specialisms and exceptions that a general knowledge of the law of contract is basically worthless.

I agree, although not the point I was making, which was that the rulebook says the NEC need to set out the eligibility criteria in "procedural guidelines and in each annual report to conference". Pretty weak stuff, not clear if today's decision breaches any obligation there.

Anyway I've had more than enough rulebook for one lifetime.

 

[brogdale]

Eagle on Newsnight just encouraged anti-Corbynists to pay the £25 to vote and save the Labour Party and save democracy. She described this as a jolly good investment.
FFS

 

[Cid]

I agree, although not the point I was making, which was that the rulebook says the NEC need to set out the eligibility criteria in "procedural guidelines and in each annual report to conference". Pretty weak stuff, not clear if today's decision breaches any obligation there.

Anyway I've had more than enough rulebook for one lifetime.

Same, leave it to them to sort out.

 

[two sheds]

Eagle on Newsnight just encouraged anti-Corbynists to pay the £25 to vote and save the Labour Party and save democracy. She described this as a jolly good investment.
FFS

Ooo do they pay us interest?

 

[Cid]

Eagle on Newsnight just encouraged anti-Corbynists to pay the £25 to vote and save the Labour Party and save democracy. She described this as a jolly good investment.
FFS

Sounds like Corbyn will have to take his door to door work away from normal people and back to his own constituency.

 

[Rob Ray]

They have a "Graphical, Paper, Media & Information Technology " section which i'd just about fit under (i'd probably only really just fit in NUJ but we'll let that pass).

If you're doing online work then the NUJ has a New Media section which might be applicable. Without knowing what your work entails though it's difficult to judge.

 

[mauvais]

What's Unite like compared to say NUJ? I was thinking I ought to join a union.

Sends you lots of political spam, plus regularly tries to sell you home insurance. Not otherwise that visible unless you have workplace recognition. But still seems vaguely benevolent and makes the right noises in the mainstream media every so often, and cheaper than the alternatives like CWU, so I don't complain.

 

[Sweet FA]

Eagle on Newsnight just encouraged anti-Corbynists to pay the £25 to vote and save the Labour Party and save democracy. She described this as a jolly good investment.
FFS

That was great work; Corbyn is anti-democracy so everyone (not just Labour supporters but everyone) should pay £25 to save democracy.

 

[Rob Ray]

I wonder, was the list of who voted for that £20 rise also veiled under a blanket of secrecy? Or will it be coming out in the NEC minutes...

 

[two sheds]

If you're doing online work then the NUJ has a New Media section which might be applicable. Without knowing what your work entails though it's difficult to judge.

Freelance technical editing/writing - mainly online.

What's the NUJ like? I quite like the sound of Unite but there was a small leftish wing union I looked at a while ago that looked promising but I forgot the name and now can't find the link

 

[belboid]

Freelance technical editing/writing - mainly online.

What's the NUJ like? I quite like the sound of Unite but there was a small leftish wing union I looked at a while ago that looked promising but I forgot the name and now can't find the link

BECTU??

 

[Wilf]

My partner was a 3 quidder and assumed you had to register again to get a vote this time (is that the case?). Went to the site and found it still says £3, but the button doesn't work. Some fucker's phoned IT after the NEC meeting and got it turned off. fucking farce.
Labour Party Supporters

 

[Cid]

My partner was a 3 quidder and assumed you had to register again to get a vote this time (is that the case?). Went to the site and found it still says £3, but the button doesn't work. Some fucker's phoned IT after the NEC meeting and got it turned off. fucking farce.
Labour Party Supporters

Yes, there is a window of 2 days and she'd have to pay £25.

 

[J Ed]

Wow the Newsnight coverage of Labour is disgusting. Repetition of so many things that have been proven false, including the alleged homophobic abuse.

 

[gawkrodger]

Well, hopefully the coffers of Unite Community will benefit from this!

 

[ruffneck23]

yep, but did we really expect anything else? J Ed

 

[Rob Ray]

Freelance technical editing/writing - mainly online.

What's the NUJ like? I quite like the sound of Unite but there was a small leftish wing union I looked at a while ago that looked promising but I forgot the name and now can't find the link

Good for individual support (legal/technical, helping with freelance issues is something they've got a lot of experience on), fairly active with teaching options for members, but not great on supporting collective disputes or particularly leftie in and of itself (a lot of the membership would like it to be a professional association rather than a union, journos often being pretentious like that). It's just come out of a financial crisis brought on by the crash in print jobs so is a bit shorter on resources than it used to be.

 

[Steel Icarus]

How so?

 

[Wilf]

The '£25 ambush' after Corbo and his mates went for last orders really hasn't been thought through. 'Person x joined 6 months ago, attended meetings, went canvassing. Person Y just bungs in £25 to vote'. What the fuck about people who can't afford £25. What a set of incompetent, inconsistent, stupid cunts.

 

[two sheds]

BECTU??

Nope but that looks good too

Unite has a lot of industrial sectors which I've written on which might be interesting. Not that I'm expecting it to be any real use to my freelancing.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

What's Unite like compared to say NUJ? I was thinking I ought to join a union.

Totally different unions.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

It would be rather unusual to have a job for which either union would be appropriate

Wut?

 

[two sheds]

Wut?

The "Graphical, Paper, Media & Information Technology " section of Unite is apparently new so that would be the main overlap I presume.

 

[ViolentPanda]

10 more years of the Tories, at least, excellent work everyone

Go fuck an exhaust pipe.

 

[Wilf]

Still there

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[ruffneck23]

deleted for being cunty

 

[mojo pixy]

I liked it the first way

 

[ruffneck23]

deleted

 

[ViolentPanda]

fify

I don't like encouraging someone who's obviously unstable -judging by the tenor of their wanky posts - to kill themselves. It's bad form, doncherknow?