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Personally feel they have been hijacked by the militant left/hard left. Certainly not the Unions i once knew. Since when have palestine/trans issues etc have been part of conversation. https://youtu.be/HKZVDN9S1CU?feature=shared some interesting opinions regarding them.

Now start arguing

Most of my time as a Union rep was telling punters that managers have to take the disciplinary action against them, and have followed the protocols. Some of the members were little better than criminals. 

Leavemyarcelona wrote: ↑16 Oct 2024, 23:32

RootsRadical wrote: ↑16 Oct 2024, 19:35 Well I just got a letter from my union the NEU. On the front it had "Educators against the far right"
MY wife said aren't most people against the far right.

Opened it and it was a flyer for a march against Tommy Robinson and a sheet of stickers saying the same as above with a letter about the march that I didn't read.
All went straight into the recycling bin.

Same here also tore down a few antifa and smash the fash posters over fish island

I'm old enough to remember when the trade unions were literally holding the country to ransom, I've despised the cunts ever since.
Like the NHS , at the start, a bloody good thing for working class people.
BOTH CORRUPTED LONG AGO BY THE LEFTWAFFE.

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Cabbige Savage" wrote: ↑16 Oct 2024, 21:10

Ladysmith wrote: ↑15 Oct 2024, 21:53 Bob Crowe!

My captain of my last team
My friend
My Hero

RIP Comrade xxxx

are you gypsy?

RootsRadical wrote: ↑16 Oct 2024, 19:35 Well I just got a letter from my union the NEU. On the front it had "Educators against the far right"
MY wife said aren't most people against the far right.

Opened it and it was a flyer for a march against Tommy Robinson and a sheet of stickers saying the same as above with a letter about the march that I didn't read.
All went straight into the recycling bin.

I have been in Unions and they were, mostly, a very good thing and the balance of power between business owners and workers would be very different but for them. Sadly some Union leaders got God complexes and forgot what they are there for and that is to represent their members.
Have gone on strike once that was against John Major's introduction of PFI when I was working for the MoD not that it made a difference.
Everything that Jack Dromey said, at the time, would happen has proved to be true and been very expensive to taxpayers.
I used to be in Unite at work but left because Len McCluskey was an egomanical twat. The current leader is a lot less political thankfully.

Ladysmith wrote: ↑15 Oct 2024, 21:53 Bob Crowe!

My captain of my last team
My friend
My Hero

RIP Comrade xxxx

Far Cough UKunt" wrote: ↑16 Oct 2024, 19:14 Russ, I was in the print, the union was NGA then, don't know what it is now though?

Well I just got a letter from my union the NEU. On the front it had "Educators against the far right"
MY wife said aren't most people against the far right.

Opened it and it was a flyer for a march against Tommy Robinson and a sheet of stickers saying the same as above with a letter about the march that I didn't read.
All went straight into the recycling bin.

Russ, I was in the print, the union was NGA then, don't know what it is now though?

Being from a steel works where unions were very strong, I enquired about a branch meeting to see how things were discussed, work mates said not to bother as there’s usually only the committee and about 3 members present, who were very militant and gobby, so I can see why some dickheads make their way up the union ladder and the rank and file never get listened too. Also as others have said most union reps are as bent as everybody and love to go on freebie tours and to sit down with management pretending they are something special.

I see that the Tube drivers are getting restless again.

Justified grievance or an early kick-off for Winter of Discontent - 2?

I thought driving a tube train these days just entailed pressing a button to close the doors - the train does all the rest.

My dad was in the print so always preached to me the importance and ethics of a union. 

I was always in the union since I started work at 17 and paid my dues and went on strike on the odd occasion to support the union's stance on pay awards. Never really ever needed them personally until I was about 37 and then the shit hit the fan and myself and group of others were due to be transferred via TUPE but lost lots of benefits that others staying were getting. But we were not being transferred until after the financial year so we were eligible for these. 

I approached the union and they were awful. Weak and naive and sided with the organisation from day one. Were basically just puppets for the directors and actually aided them in stiffing us. It went on for ages and we fought and fought but in the end the Union told us to back off.

I was gutted. Then I got angry. And in our last meeting stood up and told the Director "You're a cսnt", the Service Manager "You're a cսnt", the HR Rep "You're a cսnt", the Union Rep "You're a cսnt", and my manager who I was friends with and had give many years of loyal service, "and as for you, you're the biggest cսnt of them all". I walked to the door and turned around and said "For what its worth, I hope all you cunts have very shit and sad lives. Fuck you all. You cunts!"

was very childish and was my own Reginal Perrin moment. But basically, since then, I have never been in a union and advise people not to waster their money as unions are just political agenda puppets and a fucking waste of time. 

 

Bob Crowe!

My captain of my last team
My friend
My Hero

RIP Comrade xxxx

If there anything like Unions out here they are either run by criminals especially the construction industry or woke as fuck especially the public service!

They have just de registered one of the big construction unions here due to the shit they were up to, meanwhile the public service union reps seem obsessed with Gazza, BLM and gender issues in the workplace, any problems members have are very much a secondary concern.

Then they wonder why memberships are falling or people have lost faith in their ability to help when it matters?

Already left UCU because they kept bleating on about about Palestine. 
Joined NEU who seemed okay but recently have started on the Palestine bandwagon so will be leaving them too as soon as I've resolved my new job description at work which changed recently.

Bunch of self righteous cunts who assume every member agrees with them and wants to hear their lefty bullshit opinions which are trumpeted as fact.

I know three people involved with trade unions, all cunts (x2 Spurs and x1 Charlton)

Brothers. We will earn 100k if we can just fuck over the tax payers.

For as long as I remember, (Trade) Unions existed only to protect and improve the working conditions of their paid-up members - and members only paid for that protection....OK, and maybe for a kids Xmas party.

Where does the remit originate for non-member supporting action come from?

What is happening in many parts of the world is reprehensible, but UK unions gobbing off about any of it won't and doesn't help. One, or more, of their committee members (& family, naturally) may get a paid-for trip to (somewhere near) these areas though, just for evidence gathering, like.

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