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STRIKE - Scab bastards

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As you may have heard on the news tonight, me and my comrades in Unison will be going on strike along with a number of other major unions on the 30th.

I'm interested in EADDers opinions on this matter.

Are you going to be joining us? Do you think we're sponging whining scum? Or are you possibly whooping and shouting, "Hell yeah, stick it to the man" right now? Other answers are permitted.

Discuss.

=D
 
There was no leave available at all for the 30th of November at my work, not even 1 half hour slot during the day. So I'm guessing we are due to strike on that day as well, although nothing official has came from the union that I've noticed - I ignore half their shite though.

My opinion is pretty much that it's a day off work. I'm not going to be marching through any streets or standing on any picket lines. I'm going to be sitting in the house getting stoned %)
 
I am a member of a pretty good union, well they have been for the last few years, gettin a bit lame now tbh, i will always strike, always vote yes to strike action etc.

I won't go out on strike in support of another union, and I don't see other unions rushing out to support me and my comrades when we strike.

Good Luck with your protest anyway Brother :)
 
I think you're on strike for better pensions JB aren't you? Pfft.

Smash capitalism or don't show tha' face round these parts again.

All-out armed insurrection. Facebook that.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
I think you're on strike for better pensions JB aren't you? Pfft.

Smash capitalism or don't show tha' face round these parts again.

All-out armed insurrection. Facebook that.
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We're not striking for a better pension, we're fighting to save what's left of the crap one we have, along with having had no pay rise with relation to inflation in near on 3 years.
 
As a mutual person i would have to say that if your trying to save something e.g.pension, then i would say go for it. If your aim is trying to gain more £, or benefits,etc... then it would be more complex, but more than 50% of the time on that i would be against.
 
I wish I could strike. I'd just be told not to come back to work and replaced with a monkey.
 
i'm with you. though i think being asked to work longer is reasonable (though dunno how much longer you're being asked to work), being asked to take more out of a salary that hasn't even risen with inflation, to get less in the end, isn't.

it feels like the government have written a list of everything thats vaguely good about this country to tick each one off as they fuck it up. unis, nhs, public sector jobs next.
 
TheSpade said:
I wish I could strike. I'd just be told not to come back to work and replaced with a monkey.
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I don't think you get the idea of a union Spadey.

It's the non union members who get replaced with monkeys first, or find themselves redundant.
 
I work as a financial manager in the private sector.....





....and fully support the strike and any further strikes that may occur.

Sick of the race to the bottom 'you get a better pension than private sector so you deserve it reduced' from the right wing private sector funboys who are just as quick to say 'if you've not got money, work harder, you've only got yourself to blame.'
 
chinup said:
i'm with you. though i think being asked to work longer is reasonable (though dunno how much longer you're being asked to work), being asked to take more out of a salary that hasn't even risen with inflation, to get less in the end, isn't.
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Spot on.

I'm gonna sack my pension plan. They're taking more from my wages yet I'm effectively taking a pay-cut each year as there's a freeze on pay-rises. Suck my cock. Fuck yer pension, I'll be dead before I can get the thing anyway.
 
RLP said:
Sick of the race to the bottom 'you get a better pension than private sector so you deserve it reduced' from the right wing private sector funboys who are just as quick to say 'if you've not got money, work harder, you've only got yourself to blame.'
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Would've been nice if the public sector unions had come out to help their brothers in the private sector when their pensions were demolished tho.
 
I have been chipping away at the indifferent coal face of public sector management for a few years now... Strikes always leave me in something of an awkward position at work as whilst senior management in no way indicate that my career will be effected by going on strike...the implication is nonetheless there...

However, I'd never cross a picket line and have always done my duty, even if I don't always agree with the cause. Not that picket lines last all day these days. During the last strike I slept in and went to join in about 11am and everyone had fucked off home!

Our unison rep is a lovely chap but the most blinkered, morning star reading old Trot you could ever hope to meet. He views my politics as somewhere between Thatcher's and Pinochet, so to amuse myself I usually take up an anti union stance with him.

The thing that fucks me off about this strike is that Prentice is blatantly going to fold as soon as one more concession is made. He loves hobnobbing with ministers and to be honest his mandate to strike (29% turnout, 78% yes) is arguably weak.

That is another thing that irritates me; the vast majority of public sector employees I work with are incredibly complacent. (I'm talking here about 'council officers' not nurses, who I am in awe of to be honest, given what they do for such little money)

I find it unbelievable that not only are their pensions at risk, the cuts mean that half of them (including me) could well be unemployed within the next 12 months, and yet 71% of them couldn't be bothered to put a tick in a box and post it in a prepaid envelope...

...The other thing that fucks me off is that I am not even in the pension, as there seems little point until I dig myself out of the debt whole I spent my entire 20s digging ever deeper.

So yes, I will strike, but I will complain about it.
 
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SamhainGrim said:
Try paying your fuckin' dues once in a while, son.
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Who to? There's no fucking unions left in the private sector.

Be good if the police pension was cut drastically. They're on 2/3rds final salary index linked from the age of 50. So a rock bottom PC on 33 grand a year basic would be raking in 22 grand a year pension which is index linked so it goes up every year. If they live 30-40 years they'll be raking in near enough a cool million.
 
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Unless you're over 45, what are you doing worrying about your 'pension'? If the drugs don't kill you first, the whole caboodle will have crashed long before you reach pension age. Learning how to grow corn and live in a barter economy will stand you in far better stead than marching in the rain or wasting more trees to make pamphlets for your 'demands'.

One way or another, bright or bleak, a new age will be upon us before you make 65. Get ready, all from now to then is but an idle entertainment in motley. Yus. If you don't believe me ask David Icke.
 
I'll be 66. Undoubtedly my so called final salary pension will be have just been a figment of my imagination...
 
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