Unions protest because contractors are using foreign workers at power station.

hethmar

Even the doctors have been on strike in Poland :eek:

Any

leveller2911 wrote: »

So what happens in the your country when large companies can just throw aside there workforce in favour of a cheaper option???.What redress does the workforce have? do we just pack up and go home? or do we say to the big companies "we will work for less than the others?" incomes are cut to the bone or do we fight?...............
NO POSTER ON HERE WHO IS AGAINST THE STRIKE HAVE BOTHERED TO ANSWER MY ORIGINAL POST, WHY NOT? REASON: BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER...........
I will ask again: If a worker has a wife ,2 children,mortgage ,council tax to pay ,all with 1 wage how can he compete with 4 migrants living in 1 house all paying 25% of all the bills but earning 4x the wages.
If we carry on this route we will all be on the minimum wage , THEN how do we finance the health service,policing,education,the armed forces and NOT forgetting the ££millions we contribute to overseas aid...

Some have said " go and work in Italy,Spain,Portugal,Eastern Europe" etc....
Ok saying we all did, do you all honestly believe we can earn enough to support our families back here?????...All you wannabee economists out there need to do your maths a bit better because anyone with any common sense can see they just don't add up..

Finally any posters on here from Eatstern Europe have not had democracy long enough to understand what it really means, our democracy is FAR from a success BUT it is better than NOT having it.

Oh and also those who are playing the "race card and calling posters bigots for there views need to grow up and get a life.

Clearly I don't agree with some on here but I will always defend their rights to have a view.

I think you find that every country in the EU had their share of foreign incomers.. In Czech it were Polish and Slovaks, in Poland it was others.. There are also many companies that bought our buildings and land and moved there. And employed people from different countries.

Yes, you are right. Democracy is worth having. But many people here are talking about closing borders etc.. Democracy usualy comes with freedom and that comes with freedom of movement. and if you shut borders and others shut borders on you, life would be dull.

I have never said English are bad, for god sake I am married to one. I like the life here. And I like (generally) the people. Otherwise I wouldn't be here.

And I live in a house, just with my husband, go to work like everyone else, pay my taxes.

You are trying to generalise all the foreigners, but you are very upset when someone mentions that there are "some people who don't want to work" in the UK. I don't generalise, but you do.

Any

hethmar wrote: »

Even the doctors have been on strike in Poland :eek:

Why would I be talking about strikes abroad? How are they going to affect us? I was talking about workers in the UK. About the strike in the UK. You are seriously only picking what you want to hear....

hethmar

You do have a short memory after all You said:

"I don't think that strike can solve much as the government cannot do anything without upseting the rest of the europe, but the jobs at their companies must be done and if they don't return to their jobs soon their employers will have to employ someone else - and wait, the only workers that are not striking are foreigners.."

My point was, they are not striking here, where they are foreigners, but are happy to do so in their homelands. They are not above striking even with their work ethics.

amcluesent

Are we comparing like for like with these workers though? The UK blokes on the picket-line are perhaps the notorious British "tradesman" whose preferred tool is the lump-hammer and who enjoys 'larking about' on the job between cuppas? The Italians may actually have some skills.

leveller2911

amcluesent wrote: »

Are we comparing like for like with these workers though? The UK blokes on the picket-line are perhaps the notorious British "tradesman" whose preferred tool is the lump-hammer and who enjoys 'larking about' on the job between cuppas? The Italians may actually have some skills.

Really??? or are we talking about smooth talking Italian men who just want to come here get up at 10am, work for 2 hours, have lunch(nice bottle of wine to wash it down with) back to work at 3pm for an hour or so , get cleaned up and go out looking for some English girls to chat up?????????????

Oh sorry im generalising too !!:D :rolleyes:

Any

hethmar wrote: »

You do have a short memory after all You said:

"I don't think that strike can solve much as the government cannot do anything without upseting the rest of the europe, but the jobs at their companies must be done and if they don't return to their jobs soon their employers will have to employ someone else - and wait, the only workers that are not striking are foreigners.."

Yes, that is what I mean... You only pick what you want to hear. I don't see how foreigners striking abroad are relevant to work opportunities here while workers here are striking..

Maybe I should have said "and wait, the only workers in the UK that are not striking are foreigners...".
But I didn't see there space for mistranslation. My mistake.:D
Still doesn't answer the question though - the companies are loosing hell lot of money here and we are in recession... Isn't it dangerous?

Any

leveller2911 wrote: »

Really??? or are we talking about smooth talking Italian men who just want to come here get up at 10am, work for 2 hours, have lunch(nice bottle of wine to wash it down with) back to work at 3pm for an hour or so , get cleaned up and go out looking for some English girls to chat up?????????????

Oh sorry im generalising too !!:D :rolleyes:

Unless we let them do the job and prove us wrong we will never know...

I don't believe Total picked that company just to spite the English workers. There must have been reason.

leveller2911

Any wrote: »

Why would I be talking about strikes abroad? How are they going to affect us? I was talking about workers in the UK. About the strike in the UK. You are seriously only picking what you want to hear....

Strikes abroad do and have an affected us, look at the French, always on strike ,blockading the ports whether its the fishermen or farmers, sometimes I have sympathy for what they are fighting for, sometimes not.

We and Germany are the only 2 net contributers to the EU (stand to be corrected) every other country including France gets money out. We see more of our money going to the EU and yet for the last 11 years the auditors have refused to sign off the EU accounts as being correct, there is so much fraud going on ,if the EU was a LTD compant it would have been stopped from trading years ago.When we see our money going abroad and then see Italian workers being shipped over here and British workers Not getting a chance to apply for the jobs what should we think? what should we do?.
Some on here would accuse me of being a europhile, im NOT im all in favour of fair trade and we are clearing getting the "!!!!!! end of the stick".

I will say it again, I have NO problem with migrant workers if we all play by the same rules.

leveller2911

Any wrote: »

Unless we let them do the job and prove us wrong we will never know...

I don't believe Total picked that company just to spite the English workers. There must have been reason.

Yes it was a cheaper quote Any.........What I wrote above was humour, I was generalising in the same way that Amcluesant was, but the opposite.:rotfl: