howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Pickets out in St John's Rd earlier.
And at the Eastern dock.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Strange that these strikers who are so unhappy with their pay increases and pensions do not look for other jobs, they should all be grateful they have one when so many can't get one however hard they try.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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There seems to be very little support for the strike from the media and general public but I can understand the chagrin of teachers bearing in mind the Education Secretary's past life on the picket line.
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Button- Location: Dover
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No.2 son's union voted not to strike - mainly, he says, because he and others forgot to post their ballot forms. What a nut!
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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Oh well he deserves all he gets then !!
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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My son's union, the UCU has announced that more than 70,000 staff at 150 universities across the UK will strike for 18 days between February and March in disputes over pay, conditions etc.
My carer stopped me from texting him to query whether Trotsky himself would have gone on strike for eighteen days if he had TWO mortgages.
Apparently sarcasm is not helpful ....................
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Wonder why do many unions are in dispute at the same time
Worse, has to be something wrong when RCN nurses union never been on strike in 100 years calls it's members out .
RCN desperately wanting to resolve dispute , govt looking the other way
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:Wonder why do many unions are in dispute at the same time
Worse, has to be something wrong when RCN nurses union never been on strike in 100 years calls it's members out .
RCN desperately wanting to resolve dispute , govt looking the other way
In answer to Keith's first point because it is a Tory Government, plus they are intransigent which will only annoy the unions involved.
Nurses used to be there because they wanted to care for sick people it was a vocation, now it seems some simply regard it simply as a job. I now have more respect for the front line ambulance workers who in some cases actually save lives with their advanced paramedic training, no longer there to simply deliver the sick.
Strikes cause everyone involved to loose out, strikers loose a day's pay for every day they refuse to work, the public are inconvenienced and eventually get annoyed, employers struggle to cope.
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Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
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The cat was let out the bag at a recent Transport Committee where Mark Harper MP admitted it would have been cheaper to settle the rail strikes in Nov/Dec but the government made a decision it did not want to set a benchmark for public sector rises...
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
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J ust glad I do not vote anymore
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Ross Miller wrote:The cat was let out the bag at a recent Transport Committee where Mark Harper MP admitted it would have been cheaper to settle the rail strikes in Nov/Dec but the government made a decision it did not want to set a benchmark for public sector rises...
Yep. I wonder if he was reprimanded by Central Office. But then the rail strikes have never been about public affordability despite the spin.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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It's today's way of negotiations
We all lose
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Button- Location: Dover
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At a time when it's being said that impending legislation will infringe on the right to strike, it's pleasing to note that barbeques, fire pits, bonfires and the like are not affected by tightening emissions regulations to reduce the amount of smoke stoves can emit per hour from 5g to 3g - the government accepted that to do so would be disproportionate (even though burning wood and coal in open fires and stoves makes up 38% of the UK's emission of PM2.5 particulates and a wood-burning stove emits more particulates per hour than a diesel lorry).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64261624
This means that the traditional labour relations landscape of pickets warming themselves by a nice warm brasserie should be with us for some time to come.
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Bob Whysman
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‘This means that the traditional labour relations landscape of pickets warming themselves by a nice warm brasserie should be with us for some time to come.’
A burning question answered Button. I was wondering where my Mail had gone!
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Do nothing and nothing happens.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Unless the govt mak e s s move to resolve the dispute this will go on
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