06-02-14, 09:07 PM
Quote:I see them union leaders leading their members into strikes
Union leaders cannot lead their members into a strike.
Unions represent their members. Members are balloted for industrial action if or when negotiations fail. There is an extremely difficult lengthy process to go through before you can call an official 'legal' strike. Which in turn is why more and more good old fashioned 'illegal' wild cat strikes are sadly becoming more common.
Quote:Funny those union bosses earning £250k working for the hard pressed working man.
Firstly who is this man or woman. Secondly why is it OK for Maggie Thatcher to grow up as a Grocers daughter but spend her last years living at the Ritz, but if a working man or a union boss gets a decent rate of pay certain stupid idiots want to piss all over them. So fuck off!
Quote:If they are not careful it will be like the car manufacturers and miners, all go tits up.
Who was that fella that ran ICI years ago, in his later years he had a TV show called The Trouble Shooter or something, anyway he said "there is such thing as bad industrial relations, only bad management"
Germany has a far far higher of union membership than the UK, but in Germany businesses value their workers (better rates of pay, terms, conditions and pensions) and see unions as their partners.
I'm told the problem doon in London is London Underground want the majority of stations to run without ticket offices? Never mind the jobs, but really how dumb can you get, or perhaps how stupidly greedy.
That's another thing that England is crap at (rather than the UK cos I think we're trying to learn that one in Scotland) - service.
I know it's a pain for those who rely on the London tube to get to work, but for focs sake try and blame the right people. It's about time somebody asked the bosses - why are your trains not running - why are you trying to wreck the service - get it fixed!