rail unions

[happy daze john in oz]

Not long after I arrived here I was working as a Food Services Manager in a large department store. There was to be a meeting to called by the union but they were only one representative from each business required to attend.
The union man came and spoke with the shop steward of the ladies in my department telling her one of the ladies should go as representative of the group.
Following Monday he came back to see who it would be. Well not one of them, mainly part time workers and house wife's just earning a few dollars extra, wanted to go.
The Union man went off like a two bob watch and told me that if they could not choose one then I would have to.
I then told him that these ladies can think for them selves and we did not change their battery every Monday morning as they were not automatic machines.
Well there he was going off again when security came and took him away, he had arrived but not checked in with Human Resources first.
we never saw him again.

[cappy]

###imay have stated this before .......but in my factory i had no union......the garment workers union man wanted to make an appointment to see me .........i said i usally finish my work at 6 or 7 pm .......he said oh i finish at 5.........can i come in there tea break i said they finish at 5 on average come then........i told my people he was coming at 5 ...he arrived ...they nearly trampled him over ......not to sign up or listen to his patter but to get out the bloody way of him.......why because they could work without paying into his club...they didnt want it .......i wonder how many folk would not have a union card in todays world ...if they could work without it.......cappy

[Louis the fly]

I hope this never happens but if your house was ever on fire the men rushing in to save your life will be union members. The ambulance crew driving you to hospital while doing all they can to treat you will be union members. The doctors, nurses and ancillary staff who are tired and exhausted by working long hours without adequate funding will be union members. The teachers educating your grand children will be union members . The cops you call when in danger will be members of the Police Federation , a union.

It's time to change the record , sing another song , add another string to your bow.

[cappy]

###usual ballocks louis......the people who would assist me are human beings they chose to do those jobs of various lifesaving activities .....they may be catholic moslem presbeterian......or bush baptists..... who have to be members of a union to work......otherwise ......no job......release youself from the pain of your yoke louis fly in another direction......be free from your bondage and have a happy xmas love cappy

[j.sabourn]

In all these differences of opinion re unions, you never hear any problems of where we are told was the birth place of such... Russia. I wonder why. Unions the same as the management forming world sport is the same and are rife for being mis used and to theirs and others benefits. It is the way of the world. Unions are always going to be there the same as ISIL, As soon as openings occur or people see and think they are being misused. Misuse of power is found in every walk of life from the Government down. It is unbelievable the amount of anti Russian propaganda being put out by politicians because one side loses an election. Think instead of all the change of governments changed and enforced since the last war. This all done under the auspices of being done for ones own good. People want to rule themselves, why pay taxes to a government that doesn't have your welfare at heart. As for the propaganda being put out about not just ISIL but the other renegade groups, who armed them in the first place.? No good crying over spilled milk. Unions are a minor part of political life. JS

[cappy]

In all these differences of opinion re unions, you never hear any problems of where we are told was the birth place of such... Russia. I wonder why. Unions the same as the management forming world sport is the same and are rife for being mis used and to theirs and others benefits. It is the way of the world. Unions are always going to be there the same as ISIL, As soon as openings occur or people see and think they are being misused. Misuse of power is found in every walk of life from the Government down. It is unbelievable the amount of anti Russian propaganda being put out by politicians because one side loses an election. Think instead of all the change of governments changed and enforced since the last war. This all done under the auspices of being done for ones own good. People want to rule themselves, why pay taxes to a government that doesn't have your welfare at heart. As for the propaganda being put out about not just ISIL but the other renegade groups, who armed them in the first place.? No good crying over spilled milk. Unions are a minor part of political life. JS

''sad but true...cappy

[vic mcclymont]

The Independent Rail Safety and Standards Board has rubbished claims by Union Boss Mick Wheelan. Wheelan claimed on a BBC Radio programme that driver only trains had increased suicides and passenger slippages between trains and platforms.
The standards board that number of injuries and falls at platforms had actually decreased significantly since the increase in driver only trains. They also stated that the number of suicides was falling not increasing.
Wheelan also signed a document in 2011 agreeing to Driver only trains on Thameslink services, now he is claiming that they are unsafe.
Regards
Vic

[Captain Kong]

In 15 years of being a Member of the NUS, I never got one result from them.
Every time I kicked about something I always got the same answer from the Liverpool Delegate, Paddy McGrath.
"SORRY LAH, ME HANDS ARE TIED."
He was always there on signing on day, his hand were never tied then making us pay up our Subs and Political Levy.
When I got thrown off the Pool, he said "Give us a Fiver and I`ll get you back on." That was a weeks pay then, I took him round the back of the Pool and filled him in. He was a well know street fighter in his day, but I didn't know that so I did. He lost some of his credibility then.
Brian.

[cappy]

same in shields in the seamens strikes they went round the bars with buckets people filled the buckets with money ...they went round the shops with cartons for tinned foods etc ...i never saw any ....did anybody else on the site get anything ......i must say that the miners in boldon colliery and other pit villages gave generously.....but who beneffitted .......certainly no one i ever came across.......cappy

[Captain Kong]

I saw many fellas with buckets collecting at the Strike meetings in Liverpool in the 55 and 60 Strikes, lads who had nothing, No Benefits for strikers in those days, putting their last half crown in, Never saw or heard anything what it went on. Ale money for some I guess.
Brian