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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/d...t-allowed-unite-to-rig-the-falkirk-selection/
.. time for the rozzers to give it another look see perhaps.

Just won't die a death will it!

You can't kill what was never alive. This Falkirk "scandal" is absolutely fuck all they're desperate for it to stick but so far no-one really gives a shit.

Some evidence from the comments

"Exactly. If your reading these comments Dan can you get in contact with your friends at the BBC and ask why this Isn't being covered, it should be all over the news like the Ralph Miliband story.. the British public have probably switched off from this,"

"Perhaps if the BBC were told that it was related to climate change they would run the story automatically."

"It's not only the BBC who are reluctant to cover this scandal; ITV and Sky seem equally shy on the matter too. I think we have almost reached the bottom of the pond with regard to political integrity, when our major broadcasters are reluctant (or afraid) to report potential vote rigging as a crime against democracy, but prefer stand back and regard it as a misdemeanour."

"The BBC will be dancing to McCluskey's orders, just like the rest of Labour."

"At least you have the courage to print this. No Scottish paper would touch this with a barge pole."

I still can't fully work out what's meant to have been done, how it broke rules, all the rest of it. Fucking hell this Falkirk selection is fuck all compared to some of the shit that goes on in all the major parties on a day-to-day basis.
 
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UK: Support Mitie (First Great Western Contract) Workers

RMT members working for the contractor Mitie at First Great Western have taken 5 days of strike action as a result of a derisory pay offer from a company that can easily afford to pay it workers properly. As well as a below inflation offer they also rejected the union's claim for sick pay and travel facilities in line with the First Great Western rates, shift and weekend rates, overtime and bank holiday rates and an end to zero hour contracts....
 
RMT announce industrial action for wednesday 25th dec at 7am through to thursday 26th dec at 1am.

Talks are ongoing regarding the casualisation of staff dispute, the rmt applied for an extention (of the allowed period between ballot and strike) into the new year in case talks break down which lul refused hence this action called for the most unlikely of days (no tubes running).
 
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7.19pm GMT

Kent Police have declared a major incident for the ongoing flooding and spate conditions affecting Kent. 1/2 http://t.co/hCbF4uIvZy

— Kent Fire and Rescue (@kentfirerescue) December 24, 2013
2/2 Therefore, KFRS and Kent FBU officials have agreed a countywide recall for firefighters who were due to take strike action at 1900 hours

— Kent Fire and Rescue (@kentfirerescue) December 24, 2013
7.16pm GMT

Firefighters in Kent and Surrey have called off a five hour strike which was scheduled to begin at 7pm because of the danger of flooding in their counties. Firefighters elsewhere in Britain are now on strike in protest at changes to their pension schemes.
 
Tube Union RMT confirmed today that a ballot of members across London Underground in a dispute over jobs, services and safety has recorded a massive vote for both strike action and action short of a strike.In the “Every Job Matters” dispute, RMT members have voted by 77% for strike action and by an even bigger majority for action short of a strike. The results will now be considered by a meeting of the union’s executive.

http://www.rmt.org.uk/news/massive-...ty/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Game on.
 
Tube Union RMT confirmed today that a ballot of members across London Underground in a dispute over jobs, services and safety has recorded a massive vote for both strike action and action short of a strike.In the “Every Job Matters” dispute, RMT members have voted by 77% for strike action and by an even bigger majority for action short of a strike. The results will now be considered by a meeting of the union’s executive.

http://www.rmt.org.uk/news/massive-...ty/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Game on.
Or, as the BBC and the tories would say, 23% of people didn't vote.
 
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Or, as the BBC and the tories would say, 23% of people didn't vote.

Actually 23% voted no. A bigger percentage probably didn't vote. Crow addresses that at the end of the article.
 
Actually 23% voted no. A bigger percentage probably didn't vote. Crow addresses that at the end of the article.
Yes, I meant to say 'didn't vote for it'.

That seems to be how things are reported these days. like the recent '30% of doctors are in favour of charging foreigners for health care', the truth is distorted: 2/3 were not in support. So the BBC will report this as 23% of workers don't want to disrupt things by striking.
 
Just heard on the news on Radio 4 that the government "is considering making the London Underground an essential service, which would forbid the unions from taking strike action". Is it me or does this government say the same thing every time there's a Tube strike? If they declared the Tube an "essential service", then they'd have to do the same with trains and buses.

Fucking inept load of authoritarian shitbags.:facepalm:
 
UCU, Unison and Unite are all out on strike tomorrow. I just had an email from the 'Director of Student Life' (what a fucking moronic title) that tells me that "you should still wipe in" and that "the libraries will be open". It also claims that "most lectures will take place". Lying cunts.
 
Harry Mount (no doubt pronounced "mynt"), cousin of Dippy Dave writes:
A strike-busting Routemaster – a sight to gladden the heart
The streets of London are full this morning with hard-working people desperate to get to the office, despite the best intentions of 1970s dinosaur, Bob Crow. While he and his Tube strikers stick the kettle on and enjoy a few more hours in bed, thousands of commuters have to put up with the misery of streets clogged with stationary traffic.

But, still, those commuters battle to work – walking, climbing on Boris bikes and taking advantage of extra strike-busting buses. Among them are lots of Routemasters brought back into service – not just the red ones, but the glorious green ones, too. In all the frustration brought on by the strike, it's a double pleasure – to see those beautiful vehicles and to think they might drive Crow nuts every time he catches sight of one.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/cultur...ing-routemaster-a-sight-to-gladden-the-heart/

Idiot. The Telegraph's solitary Routemaster isn't "breaking the strike" at all. In fact, if anything, it's contributing to the traffic jams above ground.

Mount (pronounced 'cunt') has had most expensive education that money can buy and he still doesn't understand that in order to break a tube strike, you'd have to have an army of scabs running the trains.:facepalm:
 
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