pcb wrote:This agreement is the biggest thing since the WFA 2000. Even back then Keggie was starting the move towards modernising the industry. He knew what was coming. Now Keggie paid for that vision of the future with his job. Are we saying now that we need to stay as we are and hope for the best. I believe that if we do not start to think outside the box with being open to new ways of working we will loss any kind of influence the union would have going forward. This union has not being frightened of calling the members out. Problem is that the managerment and government are a different breed than before. We must modernise, we must ensure influence. we must ensure fulltime jobs going forward. we must ensure a credible pension scheme, we must ensure longevity of the industry going forward. If we don't then I will see you on the picket line because after the election no government is going to stop the modernisation of this industry.
We must ensure that the members are physically capable of achieving this brave new world.
Otherwise all the other achievements are kind of........pointless.
