howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#1
statement there from the reds saying that they will not be attending tonight's full council meeting.
a couple of points here;-
are our council officers on strike?
if they are, would they be personing a picket line?
on the bare facts we are presented with it is diffcult to form an opinion on their actions.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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#2
Picket line was outside the Council office at 07.30 this morning as my Mrs saw it.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#3
in that case i agree with the decison of red gordon and fellow councillors.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#4
Picket lines are there to be crossed....
As I said elsewhere the local Labour Party are showing more support for these selfish and unreasonable strikes than the national party dare too. They deserve to be punished by the local electorate accordingly.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#5
The Red cllrs are out of order by not going to the council meeting tonight,they were voted in by the public and should be there, by not going they are leting down the members of the public who put them there in the first place.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#6
If those concerned are in any way letting down their supporters, surely that is more correctly a matter between them.
It's not as if their detractors do so without interest.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#7
clear divisions here, vic makes the valid point about them being voted in so therefore should attend this evening.
barry makes the point about picket lines being crossed, i believe that union members feel duty bound never to
cross one irrespective of the union or issue involved.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#8
As I said they have shot their own foot over this one,and the public will remember it, also I will be telling them when the times come round,because today will be happing again in the newyear.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#9
Some officers are on duty hence I received an email re tonights meeting .All councillors are voted in by a percentage of the general public.We represent all regardless of political persussaion.There is no dividing line .I shall attend and council work will continue .
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#10
Today is the day to sneak in a motion that the Labour Councillors would not like.
Picket lines are there to intimidate anybody who might try to cross them.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#11
It is perhaps true what 'they' say. "Hell is other people."
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#12
picket lines used to be that way but times have changed, usually a friendly atmosphere nowadays.
seen a couple of them since i have lived here.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#13
tom,hell is in hello and not on a female picket line.
barryw,all i can say is that you have no respect for peoples rights to strike,protest or any thing else.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#14
lets hope now the govt sits down and trys to resolve this dispute
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#15
No Keith, lets hope BOTH sides try and resolve the dispute.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#16
Well said Mrs Higgins always two sides to a story.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#17
a bit of wishful thinking from keith and jan here, dave and the union bosses sit in their warm offices with large salaries thoroughly enjoying the situation.
dave described today as a "damp squib", a clear incitement to the strikers.
barry was very right in a recent blog when he implored dave to "crush the unions" and other such epithets as it could be the making of dave.
whilst the people in control have their battle, the lollipop persons, dinner ladies and street sweepers will suffer.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#18
But the Government is in Control...............................but also out of control.!!!
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#19
As I said before I am still a lifemember of a union and over many years I have been in it (45years+) they have been agreat help,but I do not think they have help themselfs over the action they took today. A work to rule is always better, and at the end of the day you take home a wage pk. It is the boss,s that set the rules in the first place and by working to rule they can not get back at you. So again if the union feels aneed to take action try a work to rule,and it works every time.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#20
reg
the best thing a government can do when they are unpopular is to invent a scapegoat to take the pressure off of them, they are doing rather well with it.
vic
you may well be right on this one, i think sarah suggested the same thing as a course of action a long while back on here.