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Stick the kettle on and enjoy a few more hours in bed? My only direct experience of striking workers is Fed being a PCS rep, and when they're on strike he's up at 6am to go and stand on a picket.
 
I'm not in a union but I refuse to cross a picket so I've taken a day holiday (again) to support striking uni staff. Shame there's so many scabs, including all support staff in my department, many of whom are in a union!
 
oryx said:
anyone else listening to Vanessa feltz (i know!) on BBC London? Lots of support for bob crow & the strikers and pointing out how applying for your own job is just a way of getting rid of people!
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I heard the bit earlier on when Bob Crow got really pissed off with Vanessa and said she should release a solo record because she likes the sound of her own voice so much as she kept constantly interrupting and talking over him :D:rolleyes:
And then 2 minutes later, another caller (probably one of her mates) rang up and said he was outraged at how Bob had spoken to poor Vanessa and that his whole opinion on the strike had now changed.
 
Hellsbells said:
I heard the bit earlier on when Bob Crow got really pissed off with Vanessa and said she should release a solo record because she likes the sound of her own voice so much as she kept constantly interrupting and talking over him :D:rolleyes:
And then 2 minutes later, another caller (probably one of her mates) rang up and said he was outraged at how Bob had spoken to poor Vanessa and that his whole opinion on the strike had now changed.
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The one who kept referring to 'Bob Fox'? :D
 
hmmm

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Yeah, that's the conditions imposed on Mark Harding, a rep who got arrested on a picket line. A rep getting arrested or sacked on trumped up charges seems to happen on every strike.
 
Bail conditions seem to be getting more and more abusive - they're routinely used now to prevent people taking entirely legal actions, in situations where it's very unlikely there'd be any real case anyway.
 
MellySingsDoom said:
...solidarity with the Tube drivers for today (and yesterday) up till Friday morning. That is all.
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On my arrival at Paddington around 9:45 pm on Thursday evening, I could very easily have become pissed off. :hmm: ;)

After all, I could have been very personally inconvenienced by the strike at that point, and could have moaned like a TORY. If I'd ever been a TORY.

Instead, I went to a new pub, new to me anyhow, very near Paddington, for a good long while. Then I got a bus, long after the traffic had became quieter.

All round win! :D :cool: :)
 
Tristram Hunt crossed the picket line last week at QMU. Is anyone surprised?
“I’m not a UCU member,” was apparently Hunt’s excuse as he made his way across the picket line, past members of the University and College Union — a line that hasn’t washed with the Morning Star who today brand the dapper politician a “scab” for his behaviour. Some of his colleagues at Queen Mary — where Hunt teaches two courses — aren’t happy either. “He chooses to cross the picket line. It speaks volumes,” one lecturer told the Morning Star.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...d-a-scab-for-his-marxist-lecture-9121174.html
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He was there to deliver a lecture on Marx and Engels. :facepalm:
 
nino_savatte said:
Jesus H Christ! :facepalm:
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I know...

We're not a very unionised team, and probably for the majority of those that are it's just a token gesture; I get the feeling they probably look on it like like insurance, something to protect themselves should they need it, rather than an ideological decision.

I should do more to try and unionise the place really, but I partly don't know where to start and partly worry about alienating myself in the office, and from people I do consider friends, for not much hope of changing things. I know that shouldn't really stop me, but the force is weak in this one :(
 
I'm going to be faced with a real moral dilemma if my union calls us out on strike. Before I was a member, I'd just take the day off, as it usually meant there would be no clients for me to see anyway. But that would feel like a copout now I'm a member, and if a strike situation arose where schools were open, I'd have to balance my ethical position regarding my clients with the moral one of supporting my colleagues in the union.

I expect I'll be inviting Urban to help me with that, should the situation arise... :)
 
So - the RMT now have negotiations - that took a 2 day strike:

"ACAS talks reach agreement on LU strike - all action suspended. We achieved what we set out to do - which is enter into negotiations - I am so proud of RMT membership who were steadfast and resolute. We now have two months to put forward proposals and enter into meaningful talks over the future of jobs on the Underground. Respect to our negotiating team and thanks to public support!"

http://www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-suspends-action-in-tube-jobs-and-cuts-dispute
 
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Teaching Unions are going to keep slugging against Gove, but as I pointed out in the Crow RIP thread, the division of teachers between the unions makes a solid strike nigh on impossible.
 
GMB & Unite are holding pre-ballot consultations, Unison seem to be dragging their feet. Surprise, surprise.
 
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