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How are strike breakers treated in your office?

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BarryFromEastenders
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How are strike breakers treated in your office?

Post by BarryFromEastenders »

I understand many offices are 100% solid (well done to them, keep up the solidarity) but those that are not:

How are strike breakers treated in your office?
deltaforce
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Re: How are strike breakers treated in your office?

Post by deltaforce »

By strike breakers ,you mean those that are union members but who chose not to strike or do you mean any body who crossed the picket line?
BarryFromEastenders
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Re: How are strike breakers treated in your office?

Post by BarryFromEastenders »

deltaforce wrote:strike breakers: those that are union members but chose not to strike
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Re: How are strike breakers treated in your office?

Post by krussel »

BarryFromEastenders wrote:I understand many offices are 100% solid (well done to them, keep up the solidarity) but those that are not:

How are strike breakers treated in your office?

This has been asked before.

My office is not involved with the current wave of strikes but in the past people whom have chosen to work have been treated differently after the action. No one was directly bullied or abused and everyone talked to them as normal but things had changed for them. Silly things that add up like the last choice in overtime splits and no one willing to swap rest days etc. In the end nearly all have left after a while.
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Re: How are strike breakers treated in your office?

Post by DirtyHarry »

Unfortunately, there's a hard-core, albeit very small, group of strike breakers in my office.

To me, they're beneath contempt. I don't go out of my way to talk to the scumbags.
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Re: How are strike breakers treated in your office?

Post by bexhil palace »

DirtyHarry wrote:Unfortunately, there's a hard-core, albeit very small, group of strike breakers in my office.

To me, they're beneath contempt. I don't go out of my way to talk to the scumbags.

Quite right, They are lower than a snakes belly. F..k em. :evil/mad
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Re: How are strike breakers treated in your office?

Post by norfolk n chance »

The last time we went out our office was 100% :dance

but i remember the strike about 10 years before that, 3 broke the strike
and it was several years before anyone really spoke to them :silenced , in fact they were treated quite harshly
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Re: How are strike breakers treated in your office?

Post by apple »

after the last strike the few that came in, they are treated the same as before really, a few comments after we got the increase and that but nothing at all really, a few have said they will be working already.
I will not help them at all, don't talk to them etc
on the topic of the strikes themselves i really think we should just walk out after a yes ballot and don't go back! all this certain days and rolling strikes i think is the wrong strategy now and we need to build up the pressure as quick as we can and get things sorted
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Re: How are strike breakers treated in your office?

Post by major_eyeswater »

BarryFromEastenders wrote:I understand many offices are 100% solid (well done to them, keep up the solidarity) but those that are not:

How are strike breakers treated in your office?
DEFINITION OF A STRIKEBREAKER
By Jack London
After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad and the vampire, he had some awful
substance left with which he made a Strikebreaker. A Strikebreaker is a two-legged animal
with a cork-screwed soul, a water-logged brain, and a combination backbone made of jelly
and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
When a Strikebreaker comes down the street men turn their backs and angels weep in
Heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of Hell to keep him out. No man has the right to be
a Strikebreaker, so long as there is a pool of water deep enough to drown his body in, or a
rope long enough to hang his carcass with. Judas Iscariot was a gentleman compared with
a Strikebreaker. For betraying his master, he had the character to hang himself –a
Strikebreaker hasn’t.
Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas Iscariot sold his Savior for thirty
pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the
British Army. The modern Strikebreaker sells his birthright, his country, his wife, his
children, and his fellow men for an unfilled promise from his employer, trust or
corporation.
Esau was a traitor to himself. Judas Iscariot was a traitor to God. Benedict Arnold was a
traitor to his country. A Strikebreaker is a traitor to himself, a traitor to his God, a traitor
to his country, a traitor to his family and a traitor to his class.
There is nothing lower than a Strikebreaker.
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Re: How are strike breakers treated in your office?

Post by DirtyHarry »

strike breakers tend to be dickheads, as well.
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Re: How are strike breakers treated in your office?

Post by DGP1 »

DirtyHarry wrote:strike breakers tend to be dickheads, as well.
They also tend to be the ones who can't do the job and hope to gain favour by breaking any IA.
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Re: How are strike breakers treated in your office?

Post by mandelsons_toenail »

there will be 20 or so in our office is time around. c***s. They will be treated differently. Wont talk to them at all. Yet they happily take the improved terms and conditions they get. w*****s
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Re: How are strike breakers treated in your office?

Post by DirtyHarry »

disgruntledpostie1 wrote:
DirtyHarry wrote:strike breakers tend to be dickheads, as well.
They also tend to be the ones who can't do the job and hope to gain favour by breaking any IA.
Very true, mate.
Johnny_Rad
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Re: How are strike breakers treated in your office?

Post by Johnny_Rad »

If anyone should be treated with contempt, it's the idiots that still come to work early and use their cars on delivery . If it wasn't for these c***s then none of us would have to go on srtike.
your_postie
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Re: How are strike breakers treated in your office?

Post by your_postie »

What if they are your mates?