implication of not striking (UNITE)

adouglasmhor

molerat wrote: »

18.3% of the union membership voted to strike, 81.7% of that membership did not vote to strike. About time strike ballots were set to at least a 60% turnout to be allowable.

We should then of course apply that to all democratic voting processes. Or we should not bother at all.

adouglasmhor

I did not vote for the strike or against it because despite notifying my branch of my change of address my papers and strike notice were sent to my previous address.

aveylee

About 8 years ago I was a member of PCS (one of the soon to be striking unions), I have since changed jobs and left that Union.

A vote was held to have strike about pay.
I voted NO.
The majority of the Union who voted, voted YES.
So I supported the strike and stayed out.

Thats because I accepted that if your a member of a union you should support that unions action. Not just the ones you personally approve of.

Otherwise when it is your turn to need your Unions support, are you prepared to accept that you may only receive that help if the person agrees with you?

Mrs_P_Pincher

I joined the union when I took my current job last spring (2010). They have had my subs, but despite a number of phone calls I still have no membership docs and I did not receive a ballot paper until too late. I support the right to strike but if I strike on Wednesday I will lose a day's pay, which as the main breadwinner I can ill afford and with supreme irony I will also lose pension contributions on that day's money.

Also I am involved in a big event on Wednesday, which has been in the planning for months. If it comes off, we stand a reasonable chance of showing that the small unit I work in has a valid role to play moving forward. The implications if that event does not go ahead successfully are that we lose our jobs. We have to give it our best shot.

In those circumstances I am not happy about someone I have never met telling me that I have to strike, when my purse and my conscience say I should not, and it seems that only a minority of my fellow Union members voted definitively in favour in any event.

Mrs P P

joebolton

Mrs_P_Pincher wrote: »

I joined the union when I took my current job last spring (2010). They have had my subs, but despite a number of phone calls I still have no membership docs and I did not receive a ballot paper until too late. I support the right to strike but if I strike on Wednesday I will lose a day's pay, which as the main breadwinner I can ill afford and with supreme irony I will also lose pension contributions on that day's money.

Also I am involved in a big event on Wednesday, which has been in the planning for months. If it comes off, we stand a reasonable chance of showing that the small unit I work in has a valid role to play moving forward. The implications if that event does not go ahead successfully are that we lose our jobs. We have to give it our best shot.

In those circumstances I am not happy about someone I have never met telling me that I have to strike, when my purse and my conscience say I should not, and it seems that only a minority of my fellow Union members voted definitively in favour in any event.

Mrs P P

The Union don't care about how productive and successful the business is, they purely need to foster and engender an atmosphere of strife,mistrust and conflict to ensure their cash cow keeps giving.

A happy content workforce is the last thing they want.

Mrs_Ryan

OH is in the CWU and he just stays at home on strike days - his disability means he cant really spend long periods of time on the picket line. I voted against the strike and was undecided what to do but I'm off sick with a doctors note until the 15th of December so that was decided for me. However our union rep is a bit militant so I was dreading strike day..