I take it you didnt like history at school FB ? get the dvd one night in your cab called Brassed off , great film very funny very sad in parts…but will put you in the picture as will Billy Elliot.
As everyone should know by now, I don’t cross official picket lines.
However, on a philosophical note, I’m not sure if you can become a scab without crossing an actual union picket line.
No Union - No official picket - No scabbing when crossing “the line” in other words.
One agency getting paid more than another on the grounds of reliability (which is what the newcomer being asked to come in may well represent)
might look like “scabbing” but it’s actually supply and demand economics. Firm wants umpteen bods on a sunday, and the regular workforce, albeit casuals on rolling 3 month contracts for example, don’t want it.
No point getting upset if it not only gets touted out to “subbies”, but at a higher hourly rate to boot eh? 
Personally, I’d only be objecting from anywhere here if the firm were getting in anyone with dodgy credentials at LOWER pay to cover.
Ex Con and/or 11 points on licence mit DD & CD codes gets told:-
“Hey bud, you wanna go straight? - I’ve got this cushy 15 hour shift @ £6.20ph available sunday night into bank holiday monday just for you via this new deal called “Umbrella” which you may not have heard of whilst you were inside”…
shytalk:
I take it you didnt like history at school FB ? get the dvd one night in your cab called Brassed off , great film very funny very sad in parts…
Filmed in and around Grimethorpe near Barnsley and Doncaster.
Brilliant film with the late Pete Postlethwaite, and also with Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson, (Coco the scab.) and the gorgeous Tara Fitzgerald.
Ken.
if u aint union you aint got any loyalty, rock on you can bet ur arse they wouldn’t stand by you for better pay
So its ok to work there as long as there’s not an “official” picket line?
There not in a union so it don’t matter?
Or am I just getting the wrong impression from your post winseer?
JB:
So its ok to work there as long as there’s not an “official” picket line?
There not in a union so it don’t matter?
Or am I just getting the wrong impression from your post winseer?
Mate you gotta look after Number one nowerdays , cause the guy next to you wont think twice about Pi55ing on your fire
And this thread just proves that the Tory tactic of demonising unions has worked perfectly. The politics of envy is alive and well and living in the (dis)United Kingdom…
shytalk:
I take it you didnt like history at school FB ? get the dvd one night in your cab called Brassed off , great film very funny very sad in parts…but will put you in the picture as will Billy Elliot.
I quite enjoyed history but we had a choice to make, it was either geography or history, we couldn’t do both and I chose geography.
I will try and download it, thanks 
FarnboroughBoy11:
shytalk:
I take it you didnt like history at school FB ? get the dvd one night in your cab called Brassed off , great film very funny very sad in parts…but will put you in the picture as will Billy Elliot.I quite enjoyed history but we had a choice to make, it was either geography or history, we couldn’t do both and I chose geography.
I will try and download it, thanks
Yeah thats a good film as it goes, the epitome of harsh reality.
Although the post says its in the Manchester area, I know of a firm in the Runcorn/Widness area that have just given 30 days notice to ALL 54 of their drivers, not naming the company BUT IT IS NOT STOBARTS before the rumours start. I know the said companies drivers are in UNITE and I believe they are planning some sort of action.
DrivingMissDaisy:
Somewhere in the Manc area next week a transport company is expecting trouble. I’ve been offered a weeks work there, B&B paid. Personally, you couldn’t pay me enough to scab even though I’m scrabbling about now. Any ideas who this company is?
If you PM me the name of the (I presume agency) that offered you the work I may be able to work out if its the same company i’ve posted about above.
The Widnes/Runcorn one is on the Unite website
FarnboroughBoy11:
oh i see, its a northern thing, mines, cole, throw the budgie down and all that. Like off Billy Elliot when he goes back down the mines to pay for Billys ballet lessons and his other son is throwing bricks at the bus and [zb].
Southern ■■■■■ learn to spell, it’s COAL
matamoros:
FarnboroughBoy11:
oh i see, its a northern thing, mines, cole, throw the budgie down and all that. Like off Billy Elliot when he goes back down the mines to pay for Billys ballet lessons and his other son is throwing bricks at the bus and [zb].Southern [zb], learnt to spell, it’s COAL
It all goes back to coal; I wonder how many people actually supported the miners, yet happily blocked up their fireplaces and used gas/electric heating instead.
In comparisson, in the '60s people complained their stations closed yet never used a train, the '80s it was the miners and nobody wanted the coal. Recently we’ve had people whine about post offices closing (who uses them?) and now it’s pubs.
Supply and demand.
matamoros:
FarnboroughBoy11:
oh i see, its a northern thing, mines, cole, throw the budgie down and all that. Like off Billy Elliot when he goes back down the mines to pay for Billys ballet lessons and his other son is throwing bricks at the bus and [zb].Southern [zb], learnt to spell, it’s COAL
FAIL
Check your own spelling before you criticise other people. It’s “learn” 
bazza123:
matamoros:
FarnboroughBoy11:
oh i see, its a northern thing, mines, cole, throw the budgie down and all that. Like off Billy Elliot when he goes back down the mines to pay for Billys ballet lessons and his other son is throwing bricks at the bus and [zb].Southern [zb], learnt to spell, it’s COAL
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. It’s “learn”
Over excited double click on the t 
The Sarge:
And this thread just proves that the Tory tactic of demonising unions has worked perfectly. The politics of envy is alive and well and living in the (dis)United Kingdom…
very plus this one
I dont do Union’s, never had the urge or felt the need, plus where I have worked there has never been much of a presence,
So if I am doing my job and come to a picket line its then a matter of opinion, Do i cross and do my job or do I turn around and hope I dont get bummed off my gaffer?
United we stand, together your laid off 
The Sarge:
And this thread just proves that the Tory tactic of demonising unions has worked perfectly. The politics of envy is alive and well and living in the (dis)United Kingdom…
Sorry mate but the Tories didn’t need any tactics ,the unions managed to screw themselves up all by themselves