Being on strike / money

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Hull_Mackem said:
I'm not in a job that would go on strike so I'm not fully up to speed with how it works, in terms of money.
My understanding is you don't get paid for the days you are on strike, so what do workers do for money? I think the union pays them for the lost days but not sure if I'm right.

Do people just go without costing workers potentially a lot of money for long standing disputes? Surely a union couldn't endlessly pay out massive sums.

Officially are you meant to turn up at a picket line to get your money?

Sorry for all the questions, just quite interested, and also hopefully help me not misjudge situations.
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No you don’t get paid but when the government are found to have illegally fucked with your pension you will be compensated.
Our union have just had a major victory over the Tory bastards and I’m f***ing quids in because of it, epic bellend @Pop will be furious 🤣
Anyone not in a union or against them should be handcuffed to a wild pig.
 
I'm Spartacus said:
No you don’t get paid but when the government are found to have illegally fucked with your pension you will be compensated.
Our union have just had a major victory over the Tory bastards and I’m f***ing quids in because of it, epic bellend @Pop will be furious 🤣
Anyone not in a union or against them should be handcuffed to a wild pig.
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Nice one, get the beers in.

The FBU has confirmed that it will now seek compensation for injury to feelings.

Get the injury to feelings cash whilst you're on.
 
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safcpelaw said:
When I went on strike I never got paid, some unions do have a strike fund but they don’t use it that often.

I think metro drivers some are using the strike fund at the moment.
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Drivers aren't being paid for the days they've been on strike. We were fully aware of the situation when the votes were cast so, although it's a shit situation cos we lose wages, it's pointless complaining about it.

We've just got to hope that the dispute is resolved ASAP to avoid losing out on more wages.
 
seahamstar said:
That's always been my understanding of it, though similarly to you I've not been on strike so don't know how much they'd pay - if anything at all.
By the way, I don't think it's a 'stupid question' at all - if you've no experience of it (like me) then you're not gonna be 'up' on it.
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Thanks mate. None of my family have been on strike on my lifetime either. Guess it's one of those things, lots of trades can go generations without having one, or people in jobs it's not applicable
 
joemcdokes said:
Mad when you think about it in terms of today, I doubt there's many could go a month without any pay.
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It was different then. We weren't a nation of mortgage slaves, so the risk of losing the roof over your head was a little less for some, but by fuck people struggled. Saw some really sad sights that year. Many ended up with a lot of arrears/debt.

You did get a little bit of strike money for going picketing and some petrol money if you were driving, until Thatcher tried to stop all that by sequestrating all of the NUM's assets.
 
joemcdokes said:
Mad when you think about it in terms of today, I doubt there's many could go a month without any pay.
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We ate most days in the church hall organised by the union and church. We had occasional food parcels and my mam got a part time job to cover everything else.

my dad and all his mates dug the side of the train line out (from the pit to the docks) for the waste coal that fell off trains to heat the house.

Tough times
 
Hull_Mackem said:
I'm not in a job that would go on strike so I'm not fully up to speed with how it works, in terms of money.
My understanding is you don't get paid for the days you are on strike, so what do workers do for money? I think the union pays them for the lost days but not sure if I'm right.

Do people just go without costing workers potentially a lot of money for long standing disputes? Surely a union couldn't endlessly pay out massive sums.

Officially are you meant to turn up at a picket line to get your money?

Sorry for all the questions, just quite interested, and also hopefully help me not misjudge situations.
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:lol: you seem clued up mate.
Gillythedilf said:
I’d hazard a guess peopLe who work for the goverment ie/fireman,nhs,Police will get paid.
Disgrace if they do mind.
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Then you'd be wrong as fuck Adam mate. :lol:
 
I'm Spartacus said:
No you don’t get paid but when the government are found to have illegally fucked with your pension you will be compensated.
Our union have just had a major victory over the Tory bastards and I’m f***ing quids in because of it, epic bellend @Pop will be furious 🤣
Anyone not in a union or against them should be handcuffed to a wild pig.
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Top bellend Ian Lavery (the leader of my union) has just wasted one million pound of my and others subs taking an ex Labour MP to court (and losing). Its difficult to argue the case for this particular union at present. Might cancel my membership tbh.
daveyc said:
I love the idea of getting paid whilst you're on strike! I'd never be at work.
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I'm properly stunned here like. :lol:
DaveI said:
There’s a young lass at my work who thinks folk go on strike just for extra time off etc. She was shocked that people lost a day’s pay.

I despair sometimes, I really do.
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A lad at work voted to strike then didn't come out when he found out he wasn't getting paid. LOL
 
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joemcdokes said:
Mad when you think about it in terms of today, I doubt there's many could go a month without any pay.
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The union at my place have a strike fund but it’s only paid on certain strikes
I'm Spartacus said:
No you don’t get paid but when the government are found to have illegally fucked with your pension you will be compensated.
Our union have just had a major victory over the Tory bastards and I’m f***ing quids in because of it, epic bellend @Pop will be furious 🤣
Anyone not in a union or against them should be handcuffed to a wild pig.
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I was part of a union but I left when I went to a management position.
There’s good and bad to it. I believe the workers rights need to be followed but I also think the union waste a lot of resources on the idiots and in turn this loses respect from fellow members as well as the company they’re dealing with
 
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Hull_Mackem said:
I'm not in a job that would go on strike so I'm not fully up to speed with how it works, in terms of money.
My understanding is you don't get paid for the days you are on strike, so what do workers do for money? I think the union pays them for the lost days but not sure if I'm right.

Do people just go without costing workers potentially a lot of money for long standing disputes? Surely a union couldn't endlessly pay out massive sums.

Officially are you meant to turn up at a picket line to get your money?

Sorry for all the questions, just quite interested, and also hopefully help me not misjudge situations.
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You mean you don’t already know? Think of this, striking is so detrimental to the working man’s pocket that it should be viewed properly as the very last resort of the exhausted mind.
 
42 said:
The last bit isnt true. If for example you've booked a holiday 9 months before & that leave has been approved. Then strike action is called afterwards you will still get paid. Or if you are part time, and the strike is on your day off then you wouldnt lose anything either.
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Depends what job you do and I didn’t mention holiday.
People took leave during the last strike day I did which didn’t help the cause imo.
I wasn’t working the particular day but we had to log it as a strike day as we can be brought in with <24 hrs notice ( ambulance service) if asked too.
 
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