Does no-one else remember the Thatcher years?smokerjim wrote:
What's the difference? Seriously, can anyone answer? What have Labour done for us as workers in general & RM workers specifically?![]()
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clashcityrocker
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The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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fishtank
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Glenno wrote:My Mrs is thinking about introducing BSI 100 standards in the bedroom, we've entered talks ,but I'm thinking of pulling out of the union.Think I'll push for light duties
Is this the BSI 100 you were on about dvb
If she's asking for BSI100 I'd put in for medical retirement asap.
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GHOSTman
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Hey, glenno...if your mrs really is thinking of BSI 100 you should do more than "enter" talks...there's something else you need to be entering pretty sharpish...you're going to be very busy.Glenno wrote:My Mrs is thinking about introducing BSI 100 standards in the bedroom, we've entered talks ,but I'm thinking of pulling out of the union.Think I'll push for light duties
Is this the BSI 100 you were on about dvb
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GHOSTman
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just a thought...Royal mail are thinking of using BSI 100....Bloody Stupid Idea....surely that should be BSI 10000000000000 where Royal mail are concerned. 
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dvbuk55
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Lets hope the wait for a satisfactory outcome doesn't take 3 months - will there be a vote on the performance?Glenno wrote:My Mrs is thinking about introducing BSI 100 standards in the bedroom, we've entered talks ,but I'm thinking of pulling out of the union.Think I'll push for light duties
Is this the BSI 100 you were on about dvb
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smokerjim
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I was 15, from a middle class, suburban London, Conservative family when she got the push - and I wasn't very politically aware either ( I never understood the significance of the Poll Tax until after I was 18 ) - I might have lived through those years, but it doesn't mean I associate anything more than the years of my schooldays.clashcityrocker wrote:Does no-one else remember the Thatcher years?smokerjim wrote:
What's the difference? Seriously, can anyone answer? What have Labour done for us as workers in general & RM workers specifically?![]()
Anyway, you haven't anwsered my questions, because what little I understand of socialism and political policy, Labour has done much less for the working class than it has done for the ruling class, and done the square root of bugger all for the working class in RM.
Even Thatcher didn't have the brass neck to suggest privatising RM, let alone suggesting it a few years after promising to keep us public!
I don't suppose your mouth bleeds every 28 days, does it?
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GHOSTman
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dvbuk55 wrote:Lets hope the wait for a satisfactory outcome doesn't take 3 months - will there be a vote on the performance?Glenno wrote:My Mrs is thinking about introducing BSI 100 standards in the bedroom, we've entered talks ,but I'm thinking of pulling out of the union.Think I'll push for light duties
Is this the BSI 100 you were on about dvb
Perhaps Roger Poole could pop round and give a summary of the session. You could also go on a tour of loads of Hotels.
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mailman71
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if the tories get in you will find they are much worse than labour,in fact they the working class especially trade unions.smokerjim wrote:I was 15, from a middle class, suburban London, Conservative family when she got the push - and I wasn't very politically aware either ( I never understood the significance of the Poll Tax until after I was 18 ) - I might have lived through those years, but it doesn't mean I associate anything more than the years of my schooldays.clashcityrocker wrote:Does no-one else remember the Thatcher years?smokerjim wrote:
What's the difference? Seriously, can anyone answer? What have Labour done for us as workers in general & RM workers specifically?![]()
Anyway, you haven't anwsered my questions, because what little I understand of socialism and political policy, Labour has done much less for the working class than it has done for the ruling class, and done the square root of bugger all for the working class in RM.
Even Thatcher didn't have the brass neck to suggest privatising RM, let alone suggesting it a few years after promising to keep us public!
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Glenno
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GHOSTman wrote:dvbuk55 wrote:Lets hope the wait for a satisfactory outcome doesn't take 3 months - will there be a vote on the performance?Glenno wrote:My Mrs is thinking about introducing BSI 100 standards in the bedroom, we've entered talks ,but I'm thinking of pulling out of the union.Think I'll push for light duties
Is this the BSI 100 you were on about dvb
Perhaps Roger Poole could pop round and give a summary of the session. You could also go on a tour of loads of Hotels.
with a name like Roger well anythings possible
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dvbuk55
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Jolly?Glenno wrote:GHOSTman wrote:dvbuk55 wrote:Lets hope the wait for a satisfactory outcome doesn't take 3 months - will there be a vote on the performance?Glenno wrote:My Mrs is thinking about introducing BSI 100 standards in the bedroom, we've entered talks ,but I'm thinking of pulling out of the union.Think I'll push for light duties
Is this the BSI 100 you were on about dvb
Perhaps Roger Poole could pop round and give a summary of the session. You could also go on a tour of loads of Hotels.
with a name like Roger well anythings possible
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BELIAL
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mailman71 wrote: if the tories get in you will find they are much worse than labour,in fact they the working class especially trade unions.
That's an interesting point of view given the events of the last 13 years. Inequality at record highs ,child poverty booming despite mountains of noble rhetoric; not one anti union law repealed ,£800 billion of taxpayers money into fatcats pockets overnight and not a soap bubble in place to prevent it happening again. Even the tories would have struggled to pull that lot off. Face facts new labour is now the tory party
Bye
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floydy
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BELIAL wrote:mailman71 wrote: if the tories get in you will find they are much worse than labour,in fact they the working class especially trade unions.
That's an interesting point of view given the events of the last 13 years. Inequality at record highs ,child poverty booming despite mountains of noble rhetoric; not one anti union law repealed ,£800 billion of taxpayers money into fatcats pockets overnight and not a soap bubble in place to prevent it happening again. Even the tories would have struggled to pull that lot off. Face facts new labour is now the tory party
yeh a bunch o'cnuts
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Martin Walsh
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It has nothing to do with the hourly rate the union is looking at real money and increase in year 1 of the deal the biggest ever.MinisterofCucumber wrote:I agree with Hootie.
We should strike before the general erection with just one demand - that the UK government takes over the pension liability like the French government were allowed to. This is what we should have gone out for in the first place and all parts of RM should have been balloted.
Dingo mentions the biggest pay rise in history and a reduction of the working week.
It's easy to increase someone's hourly rate if you cut down the number of hours they work. Say I was earning £400 a week for working 40 hours, I would be on a hourly rate of £10. If I was only paid for 35 hours, I would be on a hourly rate of £11.43. My rate has gone up by 14.3% but I'm still taking home what I was before.
If any area reps have the nerve to try this on, I hope they make sure they are not standing near any windows and are wearing their running shoes.
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dvbuk55
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Good! Now what do we have to do for it?dingo wrote:It has nothing to do with the hourly rate the union is looking at real money and increase in year 1 of the deal the biggest ever.MinisterofCucumber wrote:I agree with Hootie.
We should strike before the general erection with just one demand - that the UK government takes over the pension liability like the French government were allowed to. This is what we should have gone out for in the first place and all parts of RM should have been balloted.
Dingo mentions the biggest pay rise in history and a reduction of the working week.
It's easy to increase someone's hourly rate if you cut down the number of hours they work. Say I was earning £400 a week for working 40 hours, I would be on a hourly rate of £10. If I was only paid for 35 hours, I would be on a hourly rate of £11.43. My rate has gone up by 14.3% but I'm still taking home what I was before.
If any area reps have the nerve to try this on, I hope they make sure they are not standing near any windows and are wearing their running shoes.
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smokerjim
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Bend over & brace yerself!
I don't suppose your mouth bleeds every 28 days, does it?
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