Summer Strikes For Improved Worker Health
“SUMMER OF THE STRIKERS,” screams the Mail.
The paper says the strikers’ “first action is likely to be a two-day stoppage next month which will see 800,000 staff – from binmen to classroom assistants – called out.” (The figure is 600,000 in the Sun.)
“TEACHERS STRIKE IN SCHOOL HOLIDAYS” might not be the most sensational headline, but it is grim news to the Mail, which also fails to say how you can tell when dustmen are on strike.
Meanwhile over on the Express, binmen, teaching assistants and asylum seekers learn: “SUNSHINE KEY TO LONG LIFE.”
News is that “just 25 minutes outdoors - without suncream - would do everyone some good.”
Two days in the sun may be overdoing it and running the risk of cancer (see Daily Mail)…
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June 25th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Public service ‘workers’ grabbing what they can from a weak if sympathetic/dependent administration before it collapses.
June 24th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
in byegone days, you used to have to be a rufty tufty muscular type to work on the bins - these days, they can’t lift anything, can’t drag anything heavier than you can manage with 2 fingers, can’t be arsed to put your bin back where it was - and all that if they bother to turn up in the first place…. the bins is for wimps and miserable bastards these days, it seems - I know where my 2 fingers are being directed…
June 24th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
I recall a Porgy and Bess parody done by Stanley Baxter years ago, featuring the song ‘Summertime’ with suitably altered lyrics:-
“Summertime, and the smell is disgusting.
Dustmen’s strike, and the garbage is high…”
…or something like that.
June 24th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
That’s probably the same eejit that was interviewed on radio5 last night.
When pressed about the fact that it wasn’t exactly an overwhelming majority in favour , she replied that ’she knew…’ what the feeling was amongst the membership.
Oh well, in that case…go ahead!
Bloody little tinpot dictators and bureaucrats, boosting their egos at the expense of the public…they’re just wannabee politicians.
June 24th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
some representative was interviewed about this on TV this morning and she was insistent that 27% was in fact a very good turnout and very representative of her members….
I agree with Anorak - how DO you tell when the binmen are on strike these days?
June 24th, 2008 at 11:57 am
sorry that should have read 55%, not 555!
Bloody dyslexic fngers……. you jst can’t tsurt ‘em.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Interesting stats on the radio yesterday about this proposed strike action:-
There was a 27% response on the ballot, with 555 of those in favour of taking action.
On the assumption that those who were concerned and committed enough to strike would have been bothered to vote, that leaves 14.85% of the union’s membership voting in favour of strike action.
Looks like an overwhelming majority to me!!
Or, to put it in union parlance “a clear mandate from the membership”.