Strike!

[Pickman's model]

For technical reasons our branch of PCS aren't involved in Thursday's strike, although other parts of the union elsewhere will be.

festivaldeb's in Unison and will be OUT

I'm fully in support anyway. There won't be any picket line for me to refuse to cross, but I'll have to think up what I can do in support short of actually being on strike.

call in sick

 

[William of Walworth]

<Thinks that idea over ... >

 

[Awesome Wells]

Tories are kiteflying 'banning' strikes that doesn't get an adequate number of votes, ie threshold,

never mind the votes the Tories get

on the Wright Stuff, not sure what paper

Anything owned by Richard Desmond.

 

[Pickman's model]

<Thinks that idea over ... >

how come i can't pm you?

 

[Sprocket.]

Tories are kiteflying 'banning' strikes that doesn't get an adequate number of votes, ie threshold,

never mind the votes the Tories get

on the Wright Stuff, not sure what paper

Fuck 'em.
They ought to stop covering for child abusers.

By heck lad, remember them days of 'closed shops' and a show of hands. We should hang our heads in shame for rolling over.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Details of pickets in Brighton;

Kings House - Hove Town Hall - Bartholomew Square - Royal Pavilion - Hollingdean Depot - Stanmer Park, & by the wheel on the Seafront. Also lots of school pickets.

There will be marches from various points in the City starting promptly at 10.30am.

Marches will start from Hollingdean Depot in Upper Hollingdean Road and also from Hove Town Hall; both marches will meet in Victoria Gardens and then join up and proceed to The Level for a Rally and speeches which will start at 12pm.

 

[treelover]

One million public sector workers prepare for nationwide strike
More than 50 marches and rallies planned as union leaders say austerity policies are condemning workers to penury

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jul/09/million-public-sector-workers-prepare-strike

Rather big isn't it?

 

[FiFi]

My local Children's Centre staff are out on strike, while we in the CPHVA (Unite) are not (yet!).
I have told my team I'm not crossing a picket line so have postponed a team meeting

Funnily enough, no-one has complained

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Rather big isn't it?

eh?

Up early tomorrow to set picket up!

ALL OUT!!!!

 

[eatmorecheese]

I'll be outside Croydon Town Hall from 8am, Solidarity to all who stay out.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Looking forward to hearing whiny self employed wankers pollute the national consciousness via the bbc. Libertarian sparkies and truckers whining about teachers.

 

[_angel_]

Looking forward to hearing whiny self employed wankers pollute the national consciousness via the bbc. Libertarian sparkies and truckers whining about teachers.

Wtf is your problem with self employed people?
Fwiw they usually pick on some woman to moan about childcare, not often associated with lorry driving

 

[Awesome Wells]

Wtf is your problem with self employed people?

They smell and look at me funny.

 

[StoneRoad]

I'm self - employed, but I think tomorrow will be a "rest day" so I can be out in solidarity ........

 

[_angel_]

It's the sickening pretence politicians esp tory ones suddenly care about single and working mums that grates.
And the 'costs to the economy' bollocks they always come out with, remember the NHS strike that turned into the biggest retail day of the yr?

Eta: its worked out ok as I had to take one kid to dentist tomorrow anyway. Far more miffed at school not telling us it was closed today

 

[Sprocket.]

Estimated 1 million striking tomorrow.
Respect to all who stay away from work, more so for those protesting and picketing.
Imagine if all one million workers were passionate enough to organise into a force that went beyond one day action.
If all planned and even though times are tight managed to put aside enough cash to finance a week or a months strike! What a glorious day that would be comrades.
One day strikes though valid and effective at raising awareness are nothing to employers who simply pocket the salary savings. In service jobs the cost is soon recovered unlike major strikes in manufacturing for instance. Time to stop playing and get serious, people are starving and at the end of their tether.

 

[The39thStep]

Could be another ballot for a strike in October depending on turn out

 

[J Ed]

Good luck to all those on strike today, looks like a great day for it!

 

[The39thStep]

Deafening silence from Labour on supporting the strike

 

[purenarcotic]

Solidarity with everyone who's out today.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Terrible scabbing this morning in my work place. Cunts.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Terrible scabbing this morning in my work place. Cunts.

Same here - though there are also plenty of cunts who 'work from home' cos they won't go on strike but are too scared to cross the picket line.

These are often the same people who moan that they're not paid enough!

 

[SikhWarrioR]

Deafening silence from Labour on supporting the strike

Do we have a Labour party anymore I abandoned it two decades ago as a voter and a member when it morphed into the New labour third way conservative clones under blair,brown,mandelson et al and see no way to support labour under milipede,balls and co

 

[Citizen66]

Solidarity with those striking today. The scabs can fuck off.

 

[shygirl]

Solidarity to the strikers today.

 

[Citizen66]

Are the waste disposal workers out the gate? The fuckers might start to take notice if Chelsea and Notting Hill starts stinking to high heaven.

 

[existentialist]

Solidarity to the strikers. I am choosing to feather my own nest by trying to develop some alternative career options while I'm off sick from my local government job, and will be donating my pay for the day to either Unison's strike fund (if they have one - I haven't checked yet ) or to some or other socialist organisation that can use it to alleviate hardship.

I have always felt slightly ambivalent about striking - I really am not particularly "political", so striking to make a political point has never felt quite OK. This is different, though - this is about people being fucked up the arse by a government which simply doesn't care how badly it treats people if it doesn't think they can push back. It is also - to almost go against my non-political stance - an opportunity to tell the Labour Party that they need to take the workforce a lot more seriously than they do, and stop cosying up with the big corporations, etc.

 

[kenny g]

My team is all on strike apart from one guy who has called a week long sicky and and the manager who is managing the phones and will owe us all another year of rounds of drinks so I won't hold it against him.

 

[Citizen66]

I have always felt slightly ambivalent about striking - I really am not particularly "political", so striking to make a political point has never felt quite OK. This is different, though - this is about people being fucked up the arse by a government which simply doesn't care how badly it treats people if it doesn't think they can push back.

Workers can't legally strike 'to make a political point', they have to be in dispute with their bosses which is usually over pay, redundancies or working conditions being eroded. Of course with the public sector the govt/state are the bosses.

 

[existentialist]

Workers can't legally strike 'to make a political point', they have to be in dispute with their bosses which is usually over pay, redundancies or working conditions being eroded. Of course with the public sector the govt/state are the bosses.

That might be the reason for the strike, but - as you point out - there are times when the political dimension is inescapable. I guess what I'm saying is this is one of those situations where I cannot have a problem with that