Kate Bush is top of the charts.
Inflation is raging.
The cold (in fact a real) war is back.
And leading the way back to the 80s, or perhaps even further back to the 70s, is Mick Lynch, RMT union dinosaur. He drops so many aitches that a little man has to follow him around to sweep them up with a dustpan and brush. He talks of “my committee”, “my members”, “getting round the table”, “this tory government”. Yes friends, all the old clichés are there as used by Hugh Scanlon, Jack Jones, Arthur Scargill et al.
I have to admit he is impressive in the way the late Bob Crowe was. He has a way with words and won’t back down.
And we are all suffering due to the economic conditions. But do those supporting Lynch learn nothing from (recent) history. Chasing inflation with absurd wage claims will only drive it upwards. Remember BL works demanding 35% more for building crap cars?
The railways were kept afloat during the pandemic with public money. They are still operating well below capacity because a lot of people continue to work from home. The fares are ridiculously high and will have to go up to cover wage rises. This is a mad merry-go-round which more and more groups will join. Aslef next. Then Royal Mail. Even the barristers are striking! Give into one lot and the rest will follow.
And despite Kier Starmer’s pathetic pleas many of his MPs are joining the picket lines. If Boris bales and Labour creep in then we are truly back to beer and sandwiches in No.10. No, not covid parties but a prime minister hosting union leaders and giving in to all their demands.
What a prospect.
Nominated by: Sir Percy Percy
‘We need a redistribution of wealth in this country’.
Hear hear Mick. I would like some of the £60,000 a year paid to train drivers redistributed to me.
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Apply to be a train driver, then?
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Like baggage and ground staff at UK Airports, train driving jobs via “who you know (pay)”, rather than an application*
😉
*as told to me by various staff, themselves.
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Our local airport’s advertising for both.
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I agree DCI. £60k PA to have some cunt crashing through the driver’s screen. Crap hours, no drinking the day before your shift, definitely no ganja at all, and boring as fuck.
I still don’t agree with the strikes or the pay increase though.
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Train drivers aren’t RMT they are ASLEF. The reason they didn’t strike is because the government paid them eight hours extra on top of their shift money to drive trains during the strike. West coast mainline staff haven’t had a pay rise in four years. This may be why they are more than a little disgruntled. Avanti West Coast would gladly pay for the increase but the franchise was taken from them by the government and Avanti don’t get the keys back until November.
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He’s in the vanguard of inflation busting wage demands.
I don’t think a great many people will give a shit about strikes after a decade or more of largely stagnant pay…and if we end up like the Weimar Republic or Zimbabwe again I dare say many wouldn’t care.
Sterling is diluted due to quantative easing..our money just isn’t worth so much any more..
To quote the great economist Ozzy Osborne “Let’s have a RIOT!!”
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As an ex shop steward I must point out,
Without an organised workforce every poor bugger would be on minimum wage, at the mercy of unscrupulous management. With no decent holiday/sick/ hours/ health/ safe working practices.
Do you want to see your children sweeping up cotton under a running ring frame.
The elite would fucking love to see us back to the Victorian times….
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JM@ – We ARE in Victorian times, with a dash of the Third Reich thrown in for good measure.
And I remember well the commie bastards in the 70’s bringing down a “Government” and bankrupting the Country.
We need Unions, we do not need commie bastards running them.
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Totally agree. Twats complain about train drivers getting 50 grand + but how do you think they got that dough in the first place? Because they are a strong union who are prepared to take action. It’s not his job to worry about inflation, that’s for the knobheads in. government who piss our money away every fucking day. His job is to get the best pay and conditions for his members and that’s what he’s doing. Not a cunt, I say.
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👍
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👍👍Don’t like unions? Have an anti-union card. Anything the unions win/have won, pensions, payrises, conditions of service, etc? You’re not entitled to them, then. Weekends? Bank Holidays? Paid overtime? You can fuck those off, too. Happy to let others fight for your payrise, won’t help or join in, but quick enough to stick your hand out for the benefits won? You’re the one that needs cunting.
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I’m fine with unions, but I’m not fine with the people running them. They’ve been infiltrated by wannabe politicians and the fact leadership is paid as opposed to voluntary is rather hypocritical.
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Every shop stew I’ve ever met has been a fucking lazy, red flag waving, rabble rousing cunt. I will concede that the unions have achieved an awful lot for the British worker at the cost of every industry by pricing it well out of the market and unable to compete. Strikes achieve fuck all in this day and age, apart from getting peoples backs up.
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Most of the shop stewards I knew ended up, either in a management role or in HR…..
Not me, made redundant. Must have been doing my job right….
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Couldn’t aggree more FT.
The most worthless cunt in the shop was invariably the steward.
Public sector employee unions are an abomination and should be illegal.
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Unison, and I’d strike in a fucking heartbeat.
Too many fuckers willing to join The Great Race To The Bottom, looking at what others have whilst whinging at what they, personally don’t. Fuck-all to stop anyone applying to be a train driver, underground worker, NHS or whomever’s on the Govts. target list this week. What’s stopping you if their pay, terms and conditions are so good?
You’re foot-soldiers for the Daily fucking Mail.
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Where would British Leyland workers be if they hadn’t had Derek Robinson fighting their cause?
Still in a job, perhaps?
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He has the look 😂
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I feel sorry for the airport boss who was given a forty odd percent pay rise, the other day.
How will he manage ?
In these days of raging inflation.
These Union chaps just don’t understand that we have to tighten our belts, so that those who will lead us to sunlit uplands get their just and ample reward.
Work hard.
Own nothing.
Be happy.
And Get To Fuck.
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JTC@ – Afternoon JTC/all – I wonder if Mick Lynch will be contributing any of his £124,000 annual salary to “the poor and oppressed”?
Thought not.
Fucking commie rat.
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@Vernon. The poor and oppressed will always be around.
Whether Lynch gives anything to them all, I know not and care even less.
I only know that I have no intention of joining their ranks.
As for union leaders, bosses and politicians, they can all Fuck Off.
An absolute shower of cunts.
Grab what you can, whenever you can.
And fuck ’em.
Good afternoon.
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The original poster pointed out the similarities between Lynch and the late Bob Crowe, who was so stingy that he insisted in living in a council house and paying a council rent. I doubt he took all the money he saved with him – it would probably have melted.
It is as if these little men, usually folically challenged had themselves voiced by Bob Hoskins or Shane Ritchie. Lynch can only dream, like Angela Rayner, of getting the old beer and sandwiches out round at No 10, and her showing them her minge as she crosses her legs.
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WCB@ – Afternoon WCB, a well made point – Bob Crowe, commie shitbag, got a Council house at a discount when he was being paid so much he could have easily afforded a mortgage for a private house.
“Fuck the workers, I’m grabbing everything I can” – typical of the greedy, self serving, traitor champagne socialists who run the unions.
I have no problem with a fair days pay for a fair days work, but have a massive problem with communist union leaders destroying industries and making hundreds of thousands of people unemployed due to their short sighted and selfish greed.
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I saw they even unearthed that Commie dinosaur Scargill out from under whatever stone he’s been lurking. “The enemy within”.
Meanwhile, Michael Barrett has snuffed it.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/10/bbc-nationwide-presenter-michael-barratt-dies-aged-94
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Bob Crowe was a miserable heap of turd who was happy as Larry when Magaret Thatcher passed away! A month later he popped his cloggs too! They say what goes around comes around!!
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Down tools!
Everybody out!
Micks always calling for industrial action.
Always passing the ammo.
But Micks got a hefty salary no matter what!
Not his kids need new shoes
Not his mortgage defaulted on
Not his missus crying.
Hes a fuckin rat.
I was a senior shop steward for 4yrs,
A bigger bunch of cunts youd struggle to find,
Only rivalled by the tory goverment.
And I mean YOU Len mcClusky you bosseyed scouse fuck.
They pass the ammo
But your alone on the scaffold.
Fuck these rabble rousers.
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Mnc@ – Afternoon Mnc – our kid was a union rep at Royal Mail – the rest were only interested in what they could get free/discounted and always caved into management to then be mysteriously promoted.
We need unions, but GOOD unions, not the parasite traitors we currently have.
And close that BL plant for we all get rabies!
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Afternoon Foxy👍
The poshest food ive ever eaten was at Unite the Unions training centre Eastbourne.
Also the only place ive ever been mocked for not knowing the right cutlery.
(Mostly eaten with a blue placcy chippy fork up till then).
A despicable bunch of champagne socialists that I had the good sense not to trust.
These cunts are all about cash from chaos,
Never trust a Trot.
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VF I think even a union that starts out good will end up a cunt. This because it appeals to the worst in human nature; jealousy and resenent of management, greed, work less get more, etc.
What starts out good usually ends up a racket.
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I work for a government department and our union are absolutely fucking useless. I stopped paying my subs a few years ago because I found out by chance that they were using members subs to pay for coach jollies and train tickets to London and a few other big cities, to attend demonstrations with vague intentions such as Anti Capitalism or Anti Racism. This was not only for members but any family and friends who wanted to tag along as well. One person cheerfully told me that they marched about 100 yards down Oxford Street, then buggered off down the shops. I have at times been amused by our local rep though, who occasionally forgets himself and refers to a colleague as a screaming bender or a dozy old bint.
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Sir Philip Green is a Capitalist Dinosaur.
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@Miles. And a horrible fat cunt, too.
Good afternoon.
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Yes the ‘tubby tycoon’. He’s very tubby.
Afternoon Jack.
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Yes he’s very tubby. A ‘tubby ty*oon’.
Afternoon Jack.
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‘I dont think the offer on the table will meet our members’ aspirations.’
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RMT and Lie ore in each others’ pockets.
I wish the feckin yewman roits lawyers would go on strike. Bastardverminscum.
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Sewer rat
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Self financing pay increase..
If I’d a pound for every time I have had that one thrown at me I wouldn’t have needed a fucking pay rise.
Most of my efforts were trying to maintain what we already had negotiated….
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I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced the three year pay award phenomenon John, which is accompanied by a 100 page explanatory document that would make you lose the will to live and that is deliberate. We have one chap at my work though who goes over these with a fine toothed comb though, and when the inevitable meeting is called, he goes off on a massive rant about how he has done all the calculations and we will be 8.75% worse off or some such. The management absolutely fucking hate it.
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That was me….the rant was pure amateur dramatics. Worked every time, management thought I was a right barmpot…😁
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‘One man’s pay rise is another man’s price rise’.
Harold Wilson
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His mammy was from Crossmaglen, so he is an unmitigated bone fide cunt by proxy!
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It’s I, Daniel Blake.
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This CUNT is the current day equivalent of the 70’s Red Robbo, another magnanimous cunt who was fucked off by Michael Edwards and Thatcher. The current day cunt is quite happy to pull everyone out on strike, disrupt the normal day to day business of general Joe Public yet this cunt will still get his fuckin salary. It’s a pity that hismembers don’t tell him to go fuck himself.
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I remember walking in union premises in Salford and some little woody allen little cunt said
“Morning comrade!”
I nearly had a epileptic fit.🙂
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Minimum salary of 85k a year…..and exactly how much of that fucking lot will he lose when he calls for his lemmings to go on strike? Fuck all….unlike the lemmings that pay the subs for his wages. Cunt.
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Just spent an hour attempting to find my old ASLEF union card. Might come in handy. Fuck knows what for but you never know.
Up the revolution, right up it.
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Unison can take a very long walk off of a very short pier. I’ve no doubt they might help out in individual cases but when Norfolk police got rid of 156 workers in fell swoop Unison did ducking nothing but virtue signal.
On the day we all got told the news Unison obviously knew well before us we were getting the heave Ho as they were outside with a local BBC camera crew and reporters.
Oh the hand wringing and outpouring of tears etc.
8 years of paying subs (£17 a month ) 156 members ( 1/4 million quid) getting the boot. A couple of demos in 6 months before we left and they basically said sorry guys nothing we can do from the very start.
Everyone cancelled their subs from the next pay check
Unison you need a cunting.
Oh and so does the fat cunt that ran it from wymondham HQ. Looked like Milli-tant from Viz
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One last point from me on this. Put the position of steward up for election every year, no fucker wanted it. Plenty of gobby shites telling everyone what we should do, but no fucking balls to confront management and tell them in person.
Trust me being s/s did me no favours at all.
With hindsight, I should have blown smoke up the gaffers arse like the rest of them, my works pension would have been better.
Still, we live and learn….🔙🔛🔝🔜
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I used to work for British Coal in records management. If you were not a communist and a Family member there was no career there for you – a “closed shop” as it was called.
Scargill ALWAYS had the miners out every winter to blackmail the Government into giving utterly unsustainable pay rises, it was not a union leader looking after the interests of his members – it was a narcissistic, attention seeking bully driving an entire industry into the ground.
DCI made a good point in an earlier post – without unionisation we would have none of the rights we have in the workplace, but the unions did nothing about the Maastricht Treaty which stole a raft of workers rights – unions should be the firewall which prevents employees being dumped on by greedy and unscrupulous employers and politicians, and these days they just aren’t.
Now get back to perusing this weeks Socialist Worker (surely the most ironic title ever created) you set of blighters! 😀
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If Labour – God forbid- ever do get back in, the unions won’t just be back…. They will be black….😫
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Cunt looks like Gru.
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The guy is sticking up for his member’s interests. Doesn’t seem like a c*nt to me.
What’s the point in striking if it has no effect? It’s better than the jealousy driven “race to the bottom” that some seem to advocate.
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