Preparedness for when

Butterfly_Brain

Did any of you see Glenda Jackson's attack on IDS last week?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-4pYQAd18k

Bootiful!

Butterfly_Brain

jk0 wrote: »

Reminds me of the old riddle about the three black men standing in a pub toilet, and one of them has a white willie.

Turns out they were miners, but one of them had been home for his dinner.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:You are soooo norty

Butterfly_Brain

daz378 wrote: »

because i look after people with learning dificulties , i can, but do not have to strike, its just that my manager asked me if i was striking , because i had not heard from union i said no, then i got the email am i striking? so i have emailed my local union treasurer, saying im going in work but will donate to the hardship fund, but wish they had asked me earlier, isnt it great public sector workers especially carers a sneered upon by government because were paid a little bit more than private sector carers.... thats because we are not a valuable factor of production

Like all public sector workers (my DH is one) don't show a profit so thay are looked on as unimportant until they strike and then everyone is screaming greedy so and so's and hate that they have to look after their own sprogs.

GreyQueen

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Did any of you see Glenda Jackson's attack on IDS last week?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-4pYQAd18k

Bootiful!

:j Yessss!!!!!!!!!!! Glenda rocks. Wish she was my MP, rather the the con-dem muppet.

Butterfly_Brain

I think that she should be Labour leader, she has more fire in her than limp Ed

fuddle

I believe every one has the right to strike, to stand together and to fight for their rights or to obliterate unfairness. It shouldn't matter what sector a person/group works in should it?

By putting people in boxes we're giving TPTB what they want... a split society. Lots of little groups are easier to control than one big group huh?

GreyQueen

fuddle wrote: »

I believe every one has the right to strike, to stand together and to fight for their rights or to obliterate unfairness. It shouldn't matter what sector a person/group works in should it?

By putting people in boxes we're giving TPTB what they want... a split society. Lots of little groups are easier to control than one big group huh?

Well said, that woman.

I'd recommend anyone who has an interest about how we came to be in this parlous state check out Owen Jones' Chavs, the demonisation of the working class. It's a brilliant book and has many of the political players from the seventies and eighties, admitting that they were deliberately pursuing class warfare against the working class in this country. Very thoroughly researched but a very accessible read.

Warning; it'll make you want to sharpen your pitchforks.

In my workplace, none of us is talking openly about the strike (we did that last week) but I think each individual's decisions have been made. I overheard a fragment of management-speak about a contingency plan and I think they know that they'll be lucky to be able to provide even a skeleton service on Thursday.

You can't just wheel in temps to do what we do; our stuff is in our heads, our contacts, our abilities to work up to twenty elabourate software programs in one shift, all with their quirks and their various interfaces. And gawdelp anyone dumped in front of our systems without an awful lot of training, because they wouldn't even handle the computerised telephony, it's a big beast all on its own.

We live in interesting times.:(

mardatha

GQ my pitchfork doesn't need sharpened any more than it is thanks lol.
*Red Mard of les Barricades*

thriftwizard

With you & your colleagues in spirit tomorrow, GQ! It's a long time since the grubbyment last gave me a paycheque but I do know the heart-searching that goes into making that decision & sticking to it.

And I know all too well how they work insidiously to demonise various inconvenient sectors of society, like a poisonous little drip, and, for example, how the policy of getting women back into the workplace was never about the welfare of those women or their children. I was working in - shall we say, a certain SW1 location - when Yes, Minister was on, and brilliant though it was, it fell short of the actual truth...

Alisonpennypincher

Had a interesting night/early hours of last night, somehow (someone?) the Electricity sub station at the top of our street had a huge fire, subsequent power cut of 6 hours! Was interesting to see how many neighbours had no torches/means of lighting gas appliances, one didn't even know if their oven was gas or electric. Scary.

We calmly jumped out of bed, laid our hands on our torches, spoke to the fire brigade and planned accordingly. The only thing i found i need to remember is to keep a check on sons battery powered night light!

One young lady was more concerned about how she would straighten her hair! There is no hope