Fred Elliot
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« Reply #30 on: Friday, August 7, 2009, 21:01:21 » |
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Actually I have found being unemployed has helped immensly
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« Reply #31 on: Friday, August 7, 2009, 21:28:22 » |
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Since when did you have to know what you were on about, before you could post on a topic?
Talk Talk's been spouting shit for fucking years and gets away with it!
Like a voluminous fountain of faeces. Incredible in its density and profusion it swamps all in the vicinity. By the way, do you know that London tube train drivers get £40k a year? They strike all the time... |
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« Reply #32 on: Friday, August 7, 2009, 21:48:28 » |
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Like a voluminous fountain of faeces. Incredible in its density and profusion it swamps all in the vicinity.
By the way, do you know that London tube train drivers get £40k a year? They strike all the time...
PS They also have a 35 hour working week and they get nine weeks annual leave. |
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sonicyouth
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« Reply #33 on: Friday, August 7, 2009, 21:49:23 » |
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get a job as a tube driver then
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« Reply #34 on: Friday, August 7, 2009, 21:50:40 » |
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get a job as a tube driver then
No thank you. Sitting in a tin can for seven hours a day? I earn over double that anyway. |
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RobertT
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« Reply #35 on: Friday, August 7, 2009, 21:51:08 » |
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I'm fairly left wing, but my dealings with Unions have allowed to form the opinion they are cunts. They are ruined by the usual problem with left wing ideals, self bloody interest and greed of individuals. They are also a bit lost since Labour and the EU implemented most of the legislation they spent so long demanding.
I would have sympathy for them if I felt they were all putting in 100% to turn the company around. Lets not beat about the bush here, if it wasn't a sort of Nationalised company, it would have sold off huger swathes of it's business by now. It's a limping lump of all that is wrong with Nationalised industries and even if fully privatised it would take years to sort out (see BT, Gas, Water etc). It's failed to see the trends in it's market and has absolutely no chance of reacting to them now with a workforce that seemingly wants it to be how it was in the good old days.
Oh, and arriba, I'd wager some (not many granted) do in fact actually enjoy a good strike. There are too many "activists" in Unions that actually do very little "work" so it's become a profession in it's own right. Just check out the Unite Union if you think I am just being argumentative.
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Samdy Gray
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« Reply #36 on: Friday, August 7, 2009, 21:52:04 » |
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No thank you. Sitting in a tin can for seven hours a day?
I earn over double that anyway.
Good for you. |
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sonicyouth
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« Reply #37 on: Friday, August 7, 2009, 21:52:52 » |
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No thank you. Sitting in a tin can for seven hours a day?
I earn over double that anyway.
good for you, here's a medal shaped like a NES controller [url width=520 height=375]http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/nes_medal.jpg[/url] |
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« Reply #38 on: Friday, August 7, 2009, 21:55:05 » |
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I'm fairly left wing, but my dealings with Unions have allowed to form the opinion they are cunts. They are ruined by the usual problem with left wing ideals, self bloody interest and greed of individuals. They are also a bit lost since Labour and the EU implemented most of the legislation they spent so long demanding.
I would have sympathy for them if I felt they were all putting in 100% to turn the company around. Lets not beat about the bush here, if it wasn't a sort of Nationalised company, it would have sold off huger swathes of it's business by now. It's a limping lump of all that is wrong with Nationalised industries and even if fully privatised it would take years to sort out (see BT, Gas, Water etc). It's failed to see the trends in it's market and has absolutely no chance of reacting to them now with a workforce that seemingly wants it to be how it was in the good old days.
Oh, and arriba, I'd wager some (not many granted) do in fact actually enjoy a good strike. There are too many "activists" in Unions that actually do very little "work" so it's become a profession in it's own right. Just check out the Unite Union if you think I am just being argumentative.
I'm off to bed before I post a reply about monopoly businesses/trade unions and Fred goes ballistic... Yeah, it is good thanks Sam. As long as the contracts are there of course. When they are not then it is complete shite and very hairy. Night night. |
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Samdy Gray
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« Reply #39 on: Friday, August 7, 2009, 21:57:25 » |
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Good night. Sleep tight.
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Bushey Boy
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« Reply #40 on: Friday, August 7, 2009, 22:03:50 » |
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If the strikers were bosses they wouldn't give a shit. Then again I dont know what it's all about however I just do not understand striking!
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Spy
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« Reply #41 on: Friday, August 7, 2009, 22:53:43 » |
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Then again I dont know what it's all about however I just do not understand striking!
You don't work for a period of time in order to put pressure on the management in an attempt to get them to give you better pay/working conditions. |
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Bushey Boy
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« Reply #42 on: Friday, August 7, 2009, 22:57:45 » |
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Spy I understand the concept, just do not agree with it.
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Spy
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« Reply #43 on: Friday, August 7, 2009, 23:02:05 » |
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Oh OK you didn't literally mean you didn't understand it...
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #44 on: Saturday, August 8, 2009, 00:14:41 » |
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Do these strikes normally achieve what the activists want? I'm just wondering because they have an awful lot of strikes.
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