Being on strike / money
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I lead a strike at the paper shop back in the 70’s , they put the delivery charge up but didn’t give us a rise so one night all eight of us walked out and sat on the seat near the shops.
Back in the day , the manual delivery just in time system worked like clockwork, so folk started ringing up asking where their Echo was almost immediately.
The owners son was less than happy being told we were out on strike, this a few months later lead to me getting a clip off him and his mate .
A few years later I gave both him and his mate separately a good kicking for their troubles.
Never got a f***ing rise either , bastards.
Back in the day , the manual delivery just in time system worked like clockwork, so folk started ringing up asking where their Echo was almost immediately.
The owners son was less than happy being told we were out on strike, this a few months later lead to me getting a clip off him and his mate .
A few years later I gave both him and his mate separately a good kicking for their troubles.
Never got a f***ing rise either , bastards.
Hep
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State pension is fine, final salary civil service insolvent schemes are not.
dangermows
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Why should it be anyone? Do you not think parents being shafted might in some way shaft their kids? Plenty of money about when the government needs it. Funny that.
If that was the deal then they should respect it. Those joining now, fair enough. Ripping up existing deals is a twats trick and anyone in favour is one.
Tbf he's probably just talking specifically about Sunderland hospital workers such is his disliking of the area. Probably drives all the way to Newcastle if he needs medical attention.
Seems like an odd ball if that's his crack mind.
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Mackem00
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We are all paying and have paid for the previous (even better) public sector pensions. I don't resent them having it mind because I was under the impression we are all in it together.
dangermows
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It seems some aren't thinking the same way Moo. They tend to be knackers.
seahamstar
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Both very valid points.
It's cos of years of Tory rule .
They sneak in little laws to stop workers/unions have any power and then deliver the whammy of shafting folk - knowing full well that it's now 'illegal' to do anything about it.
Mr Johnson is just a modern day Thatcher - but at least we'll get Brexit 'done'.
DJP
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We did at Wearmouth. The Yorkshire miners were already out on strike and we had a show of hands vote to join them in a meeting at the Barbary Coast club. That show of hands was not just unanimous, it was emphatic.
bobpc30
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Aye them poor bastards. Fourteen or fifteen per cent payrise? Getting nowt myself.
Hep
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it has to be someone. I see a lot of people retired on fantastic pensions that they paid nowhere near enough into, meanwhile our kids struggle to get a deposit together for a house whilst the pensioners hoard their cash.
dangermows
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Well, yes, but those you seem to be happy about being shafted aren't those people. And like I said, if it's deemed unsustainable there should be a cut off. As there is. So those who signed a deal have it honoured. Those starting from that point where it changes sign up to a new deal, even if it's worse than others who joined before them. What isn't right is ripping up existing deals.
I got no pay rise for seven years. Doesn't mean I ever begrudged others getting one. It shouldnt be a race to the bottom but that's what the string pullers want and many seem happy to oblige.
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Police don’t have the right to strike so doesn’t apply to them mate
dangermows
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Hep
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So if an existing pension pot has £100 in it and there are 40 people needing £10 to honour the deals they signed up to. Where should the money come from?
dangermows
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Mackem00
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I get double time when I strike. I should really do it more in the new year.Doesn't apply to any of them
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Wilfy
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I get double bubble and a day off in lieu for every day I strike
I get double time when I strike. I should really do it more in the new year.
Mackem00
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Bet ye still a scab narl.
a1970man
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My mate and his dad were both miners. They got by as the Halifax suspended their mortgage payments for the duration of the strike and their neighbours fed them, with the savings they had they were OK.
My father in law was on strike from a factory in Gateshead for a while. their kids were fed by their grand parents and the union bought bulk stuff like potatoes that they collected weekly. It was pretty grim, but they got through.
I've often thought that it was pointless, the extra money that you get doesn't make up for the money that you lose. These days I think they're more frightened about staff getting jobs elsewhere if they try and play hardball with pay rises.
My place tried it a few years back, they put loads of us on trumped up performance plans to stop us getting bonuses and cancelled the annual pay rise. All that happened was they lost about 100 of the best staff to other places.
My father in law was on strike from a factory in Gateshead for a while. their kids were fed by their grand parents and the union bought bulk stuff like potatoes that they collected weekly. It was pretty grim, but they got through.
I've often thought that it was pointless, the extra money that you get doesn't make up for the money that you lose. These days I think they're more frightened about staff getting jobs elsewhere if they try and play hardball with pay rises.
My place tried it a few years back, they put loads of us on trumped up performance plans to stop us getting bonuses and cancelled the annual pay rise. All that happened was they lost about 100 of the best staff to other places.
Hep
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Government have no money, do you want to borrow it and let our grandkids pay it back or tax our kids now?
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