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There'd been a nationwide PCS vote in favour of strike action, I'd voted for it myself in fact, but because in my particular department there'd been a recent half-way reasonable pay settlement taking us into to 2015 (including a good chunk of backpay back to 2011 -- but losing some weekend overtime rights), there wasn't a lot of publicity locally/at branch level about joining the strike.

But officially we were on strike, which I only established on Wednesday, and while some of my colleagues went to work :hmm: , a fair number didn't -- including me :cool:

Unison at both our local councils were solid round here :cool: -- at today's rally in Castle Gardens (central Swansea), Unison had the heaviest representation, with plenty from the NUT and various others from GMB, Unite, FBU ( :cool: ) and just a few of us 'out in solidarity' PCS types.
 
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Can't you do a pm nowadays by starting a conversation and adding in the poster's name in the field?

I'm surprised by the number of people saying 'I would have loved to have gone on strike but my dept wasn't'.

Either you're in a different union to those going on strike or you're in a different company to those going on strike. If it's the former I'd ask why your union wasn't involved with a view to changing to a union that was. There's no excuses to providing your labour when there's a strike.
 
last time I was on a Unison picket as a supporter a scab IT bloke swanned past and expressed sympathy while dropping off six donuts for us. Nobody else wanted the donuts so I ate them and saved one for the dog. Waste not want not.
 
Wasn't on strike cos Unison at my place are pushovers but it looked like a good turnout in Huddersfield:

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comrade spurski said:
Dont mean this as an accusation but it was a national unison local gov strike so how come your local unison werent on strike?
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I have no idea. There are four quango departments in my office building represented by Unison, Unite, GMB, PCS and Prospect and nobody was on strike. Nobody was even balloted.
 
In Sunderland, I was told none of the support staff who work in academy schools were balloted.
 
Perhaps after these posts today it might be worth re-visiting @smokedout 's OP...

Thought it was worth having a thread to keep track of official and unofficial strikes, walk outs and worker led direct action, whether large or small. Ideally not for bickering, but to help promote and support local action.
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Awesome Wells said:
that's the question I answered.
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I'm still not clear what you meant when you said "At the start of the summer holidays? They will cop a ton of flak for that!".
You seemed to imply that there might be another (better?) time for the action when the PCS and its members would attract less "flak". Is that what you meant?
 
brogdale said:
I'm still not clear what you meant when you said "At the start of the summer holidays? They will cop a ton of flak for that!".
You seemed to imply that there might be another (better?) time for the action when the PCS and its members would attract less "flak". Is that what you meant?
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Striking now will be seen as deliberately disruptive in a climate already hostile to the unions.
 
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