Your Right / Unions

[TWR]

To a point they have caused problem in the past, is this Government doing their upmost to take your rights away from you, to destroy, or trying to destroy the unions, then the employers to fully control you

[douglas9401]

Yes, the government is doing it's utmost to destroy the unions.

The brother and sisters running those unions aren't helping though. No sooner have they a socialist Labour leader than they're erecting the barricades and fighting the struggle again, (from a safe distance of course, they've got the rank and file to stand out in the wind and rain).

[Old_Geezer]

Of course they are. It's a Tory government. Serfs are thrre to be used and should be thankful that their betters have given them a job. Not go around protesting their "rights".

[Old_Geezer]

...there...

as typed !!!!!

[Baldric]

So you think it's ok for a minority to disrupt the lives of the majority, do you?
No trains = can't get to work, so affects people and companies not directly involved in the action, long waited for Hospital Appointments have to be cancelled/rebooked, deliveries to Stores are delayed causing shortages, I assume this all is all ok with you so long as Fred Bloggs gets his teabreak without interruption!

[ToraToraTora]

I hope so. Perhaps they will be replaced by effective organisations. What we call "unions" today are nothing to do with workers rights. It's all about chip on shoulder lefties wanting to have a go at the Toffs. The poor blind sheep get caught in between and the general public suffer,

[Retrochic]

At the moment a Union can call a strike and 60% of members DISAGREE -they have no 'rights' as they are members of the union. The Government propose that Strikes will only be legal if 60% of the members vote. No 'rights' are being taken away save the right of a minority to control the actions of the majority.

[mikey4444]

The Tories are doing what they always do...attacking the Trade Unions and a Tory administration go hand in hand.

[Baldric]

^^^So you think it's ok for a minority to disrupt the lives of the majority, do you?

[mikey4444]

Isn't it ironic that the Tories want to impose conditions on the Unions, that they didn't achieve in the last Election. dave won with just 31.6% of a average turnout of 66.1% !

Its a case of "Physician heal thyself", if you ask me !

[Retrochic]

They are not 'attacking' Trade Unions they are making them more representative of the people who actually join them. They are not taking any powers away and are in fact making the Unions more democratic. How would you like it if in your work environment only 40% of your fellow workers had to agree to something for it to be passed? Where else does this happen?

[Retrochic]

mikey -an Election with multiple choices and a vote on yes or no is too different things and you know it!

[mikey4444]

Retrochic...see my answer above......it happens every time we have an election !

[Retrochic]

mikey see my answer above! Elections have multiple choices a strike vote has yes no or delcline do the math.

[venator]

Workers' rights are now managed from the Fourth Reich these days, so the Trade Unions are as relevant as the footplatemen who are still represented by ASLEF.

They have switched into politics through their ownership of the Labour Party. Thet gave us Ed Milliband...

[TWR]

Good answer from a person who's wife works in the NHS, to the other selected few, make the most of what rights you have left.

[B00]

How odd!

Only today our local union rep called into work and once again proceeded to badger me about not being in it.

I've worked there 8 years so far, and not once joined- but gawd he's a tryer!

[TWR]

When driving BOO, In one of jobs I was threatened, if I did not work a 16>>17hr day I would be sacked, my reply to that, " Do so at your pearl" I did not need the union as I am very aware of my rights, I am also aware when persons are exploited, " Does zero hrs come to mind"

[shaneystar2]

Unions have their good and bad points .I belonged to the shopworkers union many moons ago .If it hadn't been for the union we would never have been issued with protective clothing when working in freezers etc and we (as women) would never have been allowed to wear trousers at work.This was a well known supermarket and no ..it wasn't the Co-op :)
My Dad would never have been able to claim compensation for industrial injury for what proved to be a fatal illness if he hadn't had the union to back him .
They have become far too powerful and militant and it's everybody out at the drop of a hat these days which can cause untold misery to many as witnessed by tube strikes etc.
People shouldn't be trodden upon in the workplace but then neither should they be allowed to hold the country to ransom .I think the way the government is trying to resolve this is fair enough.

[-Talbot-]

I think they are pushing things too far with the professional scabs, Shaneystar.

[EDDIE51]

most of this has been about strikes, not everyone is as aware of their work rights as TWR.
If this questioner had been in a Union their employer would never have been able to treat them like this!
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