■■■■■■■■. The unions were sending all their representatives to Eastern Europe to sign up bums on seats
are you referring to east european workers bums on seats or EU bums on eu parliament seats?
I don’t know to what you are referring.
My comments were referring to the time when Bill morris was gen sec
Wheel Nut:
Solly:
Wheel Nut:
Solly:
Instead of some drivers on this forum sucking sour grapes in regard to tanker drivers, why dont you direct your sarcastic remarks to those who deserve it and who created this mess.
If the relevent info has bypassed you all… check below and the OP. ffs“The new rules will apply until Thursday and have been introduced after requests from the fuel supply industry”.
Nite Nite.Nite Nite
Overtired
God this forum is worse than any RDC at times. BTW After 28522 posts…you can do better than that eh?This time it is Nite Nite. I’m drained.
It’s not a bad average over 6 weeks Solly
By the way, there are no sour grapes as I have done tankers since 1979/80. It was my choice to stop
Ok then mate. Maybe those who are not on tankers should direct their venom at those who created this pile of (zb).
2.8 isn’t bad for some-one who retired…ohhh! many years ago and hasn’t anything else to do. I wish.
Pat Hasler:
Whats the point of going out on strike if you are gonna go back a few days later, work extra overtime to get the backlog cleared ? I can’t figure out who wins here ? The bosses or the tanker driver.
A) If it’s the bosses then they have defeated the drivers and supplies are being restored to the petrol stations and customers.
B) If it’s the drivers then not only did they get what they wanted but if it’s a pay raise then they winn even more by getting all the overtime at the new pay rate.
C) If nobody has won yet and they went on a short strike, then returned to work they will have achieved nothing by re-stocking the fuel stations because it puts them back at square one.The golden rule of a strike is you stay out untill you get everything you demand, going back after a few days achieves nothing.
They haven’t been out yet Pat.They’ve got to provide a week’s notice of any action anyway and the union is (probably rightly) weighing up all the angles of the government’s strike breaking plans before they do anything.
The pumps ran dry in a lot of places just because everyone ran out filling their tanks up because they thought if they don’t everyone else will then there wouldn’t be any left for them so it was just like someone sounding the alarm (the government) and everyone trying to fill up at once even though the thing hasn’t even started yet.The problem is that they couldn’t refill the garage tanks as fast as they were emptying them because by all accounts the nations car etc fuel tanks outweigh the oil companies capacity to fill them if everyone decides to fill up at around the same time. 
Pat Hasler:
Whats the point of going out on strike if you are gonna go back a few days later, work extra overtime to get the backlog cleared ? I can’t figure out who wins here ? The bosses or the tanker driver.
A) If it’s the bosses then they have defeated the drivers and supplies are being restored to the petrol stations and customers.
B) If it’s the drivers then not only did they get what they wanted but if it’s a pay raise then they winn even more by getting all the overtime at the new pay rate.
C) If nobody has won yet and they went on a short strike, then returned to work they will have achieved nothing by re-stocking the fuel stations because it puts them back at square one.The golden rule of a strike is you stay out untill you get everything you demand, going back after a few days achieves nothing.
Pat, whatever your news reports are saying, ignore them. No one has gone on strike, they made noises and our illustrious government panicked, the people panicked and the fuel stations ran out of fuel because the proles decided they needed extra fuel to take Peaches and Charmaine to school in the V8 SUV.
