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teqniq said:
Also fair play:
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Yeah, it's stuff like that that's why I've got a bit of a soft spot for Burgon. I mean, obviously making a token show of support for strikers is pretty easy to do and it's not exactly the be-all and end-all, but it's still more than you get from a lot of Labour MPs, especially post-Corbyn. Unless I'm being too harsh, maybe Oh Sir Kier Starmer is on his way up to Manchester right now to get arrested for lying down in the road to block a scab bus.
 
ska invita said:
strike fund money comes from where, anyone know? Just dues?
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Mostly but also donations (typically)
hitmouse said:
Yeah, it's stuff like that that's why I've got a bit of a soft spot for Burgon.
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Likewise. Sure he's got his issues but for all that he puts in a shitload more legwork than 99% of Labour MPs. He was willing to come to a UCU strike rally in Leeds last December even with the GE campaigning going on.
 
Sprocket. said:
nursingnotes.co.uk

RCN announces £35 million Industrial Action Fund as nurses prepare to fight the Government over pay

Last night the union's governing Council convened an emergency meeting and voted unanimously to set up the fund.
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This is what happens when you kick workers in the teeth Johnson and chums.
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The 1% pay award already seems to be slipping down the news. The ‘logic’ of affordability has been established and is bedding itself in. Labour tops ‘protest’ in the mildest terms possible. The nursing unions posture but not one has called a ballot yet.

If we can’t organise to get the NHS a pay rise in these circumstances then every worker is fucked. An essential building block of ‘Keynesian economics for capital and austerity for labour’ is put in place. Without a whimper. A new piss poor low
 
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PCS's site are slower to update with new news :(, but at least they do regular 'Mythbuster' pieces like this on their site.

Friends are still awaiting PCS and other news about any DVLA strike yet -- the ballot doesn't close until next Thursday (11th March)

Swansea rumour has it though, that there's a fair bit of pessimism about turnout levels :( ....
It seems though, that the campaign continues to boost that in the last week, apparantly
 
ska invita said:
this is the next step - ballot - im sure if a strike is called everyone will give it all the backing they can
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thinking about this more, how feasible is it to go on strike when Covid hospitalisations are still so high - Im sure theres some strategic thinking about this going on
 
ska invita said:
thinking about this more, how feasible is it to go on strike when Covid hospitalisations are still so high - Im sure theres some strategic thinking about this going on
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A ballot doesn’t need a strike necessarily. A high profile campaign - mobilising public support, engaging the media, a mass recruitment campaign of staff and building for mass participation in the ballot - for strike action and action short of a strike - would put the Tories under significant pressure. The aim would be to force them to revise the offer. Who knows, even Labour might offer some tepid support. I can’t see nurses walking off the job in ICUs either but that’s not the only tactic in play. The point is the unions need a strategy and to put some resources into it. A TUC wide campaign mobilising workers in other sectors and linking up the disputes over ‘rehire or fire’ wouldn’t go amiss either....
 
News just in from PCS : The DVLA strike ballot that closed yesterday (Thursday 11th March) has announced its result -- and it's positive ... :)
(apart from the indifferent turn-out :hmm:, which to me suggests the vote should have been earlier, when the workplace safety issues had much bigger currency/salience)

PCS said:
The ballot returned a 71.6% vote for strike action and 76.9% for action short of a strike, on a turnout of 50.3%.
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There's talk of Zoom meetings very soon to decide next exact move ...... :cool:
 
William of Walworth said:
News just in from PCS : The DVLA strike ballot that closed yesterday (Thursday 11th March) has announced its result -- and it's positive ... :)
(apart from the indifferent turn-out :hmm:, which to me suggests the vote should have been earlier, when the workplace safety issues had much bigger currency/salience)



There's talk of Zoom meetings very soon to decide next exact move ...... :cool:
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Nice one - did they have to go through all the hassle of doing an indicative ballot before the proper ballot as well? I can imagine being asked to vote on exactly the same thing twice in a row might also help dampen turnout a bit.
 
hitmouse said:
Nice one - did they have to go through all the hassle of doing an indicative ballot before the proper ballot as well? I can imagine being asked to vote on exactly the same thing twice in a row might also help dampen turnout a bit.
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I believe that there was something that sounded to me like a straw-poll about strike-willingness, two or three weeks before the official poll was announced.

The result of that, I think, was a bigger percentage in favour of a strike, than in the actual poll ...............
 
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William of Walworth said:
I believe that there was something that sounded to me like a straw-poll abut strike-willingness, two or three weeks before the official poll was announced.

The result of that, I think, was a bigger percentage in favour of a strike, than in the actual poll ...............
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I suppose if there's people actually changing their minds or voting differently, that can't be helped, but if there was anyone who voted in the straw poll thing, and then thought they didn't need to vote in the actual ballot as a result of having already just voted on the same question two weeks ago, that seems like it would be... well, less than ideal I think.
 
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