Strike!

[TopCat]

"Anti-strike legislation is expected to be brought forward later this week, as Rishi Sunak’s government scrambles to get a grip of the ongoing industrial disputes.

The prime minister will announce legislation to enforce “minimum service levels” in six sectors, including the health service, rail, education, fire and border security. Ministers are also understood to be considering introducing laws allowing bosses to sue unions and sack employees if the minimum levels are not met.


Union members who are told to work under the minimum service requirement but refuse to do so could lose their jobs, as first reported by the Times. There are also likely to be tougher thresholds introduced for industrial action to take place."

Starmer says Labour would reverse PM’s plan for anti-strike law

‘Minimum service level’ legislation covering sectors including health expected to be announced this week

www.theguardian.com

 

[Lorca]

This wrestler has a message for sunak (apparently he also once led the crowd in a chant of 'fuck the Tories! '

 

[RainbowTown]

"Anti-strike legislation is expected to be brought forward later this week, as Rishi Sunak’s government scrambles to get a grip of the ongoing industrial disputes.

The prime minister will announce legislation to enforce “minimum service levels” in six sectors, including the health service, rail, education, fire and border security. Ministers are also understood to be considering introducing laws allowing bosses to sue unions and sack employees if the minimum levels are not met.


Union members who are told to work under the minimum service requirement but refuse to do so could lose their jobs, as first reported by the Times. There are also likely to be tougher thresholds introduced for industrial action to take place."

Starmer says Labour would reverse PM’s plan for anti-strike law

‘Minimum service level’ legislation covering sectors including health expected to be announced this week

www.theguardian.com

Make no mistake, this is nothing more than a pernicious, repressive assault on an individual's absolute right to strike and withdraw their labour if they feel that their cause is just and right. Of course, it's wholly wrong and absolutely immoral - and probably unworkable too. Malevolent legislation designed solely to criminalize and victimize the ordinary working person. And just another example of how dirty and low this government will stoop.

 

[Storm Fox]

Isn't this legislation likely to lead to more wildcat strikes? People will feel that they have nothing to lose and only something to gain.

 

[Lord Camomile]

This wrestler has a message for sunak (apparently he also once led the crowd in a chant of 'fuck the Tories! '

Zack Sabre Jnr This is some of his merch, a quote from one of his most famous promos

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[The39thStep]

 

[ska invita]

three rewinds .... could be a long day on the picket line

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Have the Tories piped down on striking workers not being able to do overtime?
I imagine they have because they've cut staffing levels to such an extent that the railway won't function without overtime.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Interesting that Royal Mail has been left out of the essential services list. Is this a precursor for attacking the universal service obligation?

Cheers - Louis Mac Neice

p.s. I would have like to have seen Evri deliver and return all those covid test kits!

 

[teqniq]

I suspect that banner at the back will piss Starmer off:

 

[The39thStep]

“Send the scabs a packing ,RMT “

 

[agricola]

Make no mistake, this is nothing more than a pernicious, repressive assault on an individual's absolute right to strike and withdraw their labour if they feel that their cause is just and right. Of course, it's wholly wrong and absolutely immoral - and probably unworkable too. Malevolent legislation designed solely to criminalize and victimize the ordinary working person. And just another example of how dirty and low this government will stoop.

It does make me laugh though, at the blatant hypocrisy of it. Here are bellend ministers going on and on about outdated ways of working, "Spanish practices" and all that crap when their inspiration for all this is the Police Act of 1919.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

It does make me laugh though, at the blatant hypocrisy of it. Here are bellend ministers going on and on about outdated ways of working, "Spanish practices" and all that crap when their inspiration for all this is the Police Act of 1919.

Even more ironic when you think of the practices of both houses of Parliament; outdated and not fit for purpose doesn't come close.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[SpookyFrank]

Make no mistake, this is nothing more than a pernicious, repressive assault on an individual's absolute right to strike and withdraw their labour if they feel that their cause is just and right. Of course, it's wholly wrong and absolutely immoral - and probably unworkable too. Malevolent legislation designed solely to criminalize and victimize the ordinary working person. And just another example of how dirty and low this government will stoop.

Unworkable is right. With staffing levels as they are nobody is going to fire a teacher or a nurse for anything short of gross misconduct. They're definitely not going to fire half the workforce for striking, because replacing them would be impossible. The tories don't understand that because none of them have ever had real jobs.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

The tories don't understand that because none of them have ever had real jobs.

Many of them also don't use state schools or the NHS (except in an emergency).

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[ruffneck23]

 

[MickiQ]

TBF the current shower probably have a great deal of difficulty grasping that negotiations are kind of a two way thing

 

[magneze]

Apparently the one off payment was linked to 'productivity increases' which didn't go down well.

This from Onay Kasab of Unite, my emphasis:

Unfortunately, the government have missed yet another opportunity to put this right. We came here in good faith. What they want to talk about is productivity.

Our members are working 18-hour shifts. How you become more productive with that I do not know.

Today, unfortunately, despite us showing up in good faith, the government have missed yet another opportunity to put this right and what will happen is that a strike action taking place by Unite members, our ambulance workers … [will be taking place on 23 January].

 

[LDC]

TBF the current shower probably have a great deal of difficulty grasping that negotiations are kind of a two way thing

Goverment and unions clear today wasn't an official negotiation, but a chance for the government to make their position 'clear' or something.

Sounds like they did tbf...

 

[kalidarkone]

I've just left GMB and joined the RCN.
I was very disappointed at the lack of presence of the GMB at the last nurses strike. I wrote to them saying this and that I felt my needs as a senior Health Care Assistant would be better me by the RCN at this time.
They did reply and argue my point, however afaic the RCN have stepped up brilliantly and I want to support them.

So now to get clarity regarding proposed strikes later this month.

 

[kalidarkone]

So my trust is not included in the hospital trusts striking in the South West on 18th and 19th of Jan.

I've looked at the RCN website in order to try to understand why only some trusts are striking rather then all of them? If anyone knows the answer please enlighten me.
Cheers x

 

[ska invita]

also like this one

 

[andysays]

So my trust is not included in the hospital trusts striking in the South West on 18th and 19th of Jan.

I've looked at the RCN website in order to try to understand why only some trusts are striking rather then all of them? If anyone knows the answer please enlighten me.
Cheers x

I don't know about the specifics of this dispute, but it might be because of the way the votes have been counted, where in some trusts a majority have voted to strike, but in others they haven't.

 

[MickiQ]

So my trust is not included in the hospital trusts striking in the South West on 18th and 19th of Jan.

I've looked at the RCN website in order to try to understand why only some trusts are striking rather then all of them? If anyone knows the answer please enlighten me.
Cheers x

Is it because each trust is 'technically' a separate employer rather than just you all working for the NHS? (even if you do in reality)

 

[kalidarkone]

I don't know about the specifics of this dispute, but it might be because of the way the votes have been counted, where in some trusts a majority have voted to strike, but in others they haven't.

Our trust definitely had over the required 40% and striked in December.

 

[hitmouse]

I was going to say that it's a bit annoying how, even where they have mandates, Unite won't be striking alongside Unison and GMB in the ambulance service tomorrow, but then I saw something far more annoying, which is that the national Unison website seems to be running a story aiming to stop people from turning up to show support for their pickets:

Five ways to support our NHS strikers | Article, News | News | UNISON National

Want to support our ambulance workers? Below are five ways you can show your solidarity with UNISON members on picket lines this Wednesday

www.unison.org.uk

But before getting into how you can show your support, it’s important to note that there are strict legal provisions and a statutory code of practice around who can picket and how pickets are run.

It’s important to make sure legal requirements and patient safety are maintained, and UNISON regional offices will be working with striking branches to manage invitations and arrangements for visitors to their pickets.

So please don’t go to picket lines unless invited by striking branches.

Meanwhile the regional social media pages seem to be promoting and encouraging people to visit picket lines as usual:

So fuck knows what's going on there.

 

[LDC]

kalidarkone I think it was a 'strategic' decision by the RCN to split the Trusts that got mandates into two groups and one group strike in December and then one in January. I'm a bit mystified why they did this tbh, but anyway, that's why your Trust (and mine) was on strike December but isn't now.

 

[kalidarkone]

kalidarkone I think it was a 'strategic' decision by the RCN to split the Trusts that got mandates into two groups and one group strike in December and then one in January. I'm a bit mystified why they did this tbh, but anyway, that why your Trust (and mine) was on strike December but isn't now.

I just had a chat with my manager and apparently it was in order to disperse the disruption...

 

[LDC]

I just had a chat with my manager and apparently it was in order to disperse the disruption...

 

[Edie]

Got this

About this


Still don’t know what to vote. This is like Brexit all over again

PS they’re not fuckin shy about telling you which way to vote eh Whatever happened to impartiality?!