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mark occomore



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:40 pm    Post subject: Train / Planes Strike Action Reply with quote

As BA take industrial action, it's time for the RMT to bring their trains to a stand still. Gordon Brown is helping a little.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Easter has always been a soft target. If it's not our unions, it's the French, or Spanish....
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seems bizarre for union militancy to emerge so strongly just before an election. Have they forgotten that the backlash from the 1979 Winter of Discontent swept the Tories to power?

Ian.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Exactly, Ian - I said the same thing. Unions obviously want a Tory Government Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83451b31c69e20120a9592a40970b-pi
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

iwarburton wrote:
Seems bizarre for union militancy to emerge so strongly just before an election. Have they forgotten that the backlash from the 1979 Winter of Discontent swept the Tories to power?

Ian.

What about the militant, intransigent attitude of people like Willie Walsh. Putting the Bullingdon club in power certainly won't help anyone except the aforementioned Willie Walsh & his like. I can't see how anyone who has to work for their living could vote for them? It would be a contradiction of interests.
For everyone's sake, they should get back round the table and negotiate a settlement. And when management want to make any changes, then talk to those who get their hands dirty first and thrash out a deal. Anything else would be tantamount to dictatorship, and you would have a resentful workforce. The last thing a contented workforce want to do is strike. Perhaps those in high management should think about that.
I think this lady has it about right.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/03/20/willie-walsh-has-made-the-public-face-of-ba-a-very-sad-one-indeed-115875-22124677/

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In saying what I said, I wasn't implying that it's management right, unions wrong. But surely UNITE wants another Labour victory in the forthcoming General Election and its action, whether justifiable or not, seems designed to hinder this aim.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MadeinSurrey wrote:
Exactly, Ian - I said the same thing. Unions obviously want a Tory Government Rolling Eyes


They do!!! With a Conservative Government comes freedom!!!!
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

80 went sick today, so they won't lose their staff travel perks, crafty eh........

BA have always been paid far more than any other airline.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rachel wrote:


They do!!! With a Conservative Government comes freedom!!!!

Only for the fattest of fat-cats!
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whilst tax pay are propping up the company. I was watching the news and guessing that BA seem to be not achieving anything by hiring out private carriers to transport there passengers. It must be costing more than the strike.
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