STRIKERS

@irish_lucy wrote:

When trade unions were first set up for the purpose of Ruby’s post they had the workers rights in mind, however in todays climate I truly beleive they look out for the employer insted.

Over here – Last year when we were about to strike the unions were all for us to sign and not go on strike but the people on the ground (inside the union) told us not to sign as the Government would only end up taking more of are wages in the long run. People didn’t listen to the insiders and voted YES – we didn’t go on strike and an other “levy” was taken from are wages less than 3 months later.
Then the Govenment had the cheek to say we didn’t get a pay reduction were paying a Govenment Levy insted!!!!!!

The media are owned by the Govenment so when they published reports saying the lowest puplic servent is on a miniuim of €50K a year I nearly died wondering where the rest of my €25K a year was.
They did there best and unfortunaly sucseeded in dividing the public and private sectors so noone knew who to trust and in short the Govenment won – yes the same Irish Government who need €8Million from England and shìtload from rest of EU and we still need more and then let the bankers walk with all their money and millions in their private pensions!!!!.

Let them strike, do support them as you never know when the Govenment will try to feck you over and you need support from others.

ah now lucy
a typical public service employee may be ?
over paid and lazy
instead of getting on with your work your on here posting at the tax payers expense :P

@rubyred wrote:

Trade Unions: the people who brought you the weekend, health & safety at work, capped working hours, employment rights and protection, fair wages and pensions, maternity and paternity rights, injury and sickness benefits, paid holidays and put an end to child labour. What a bunch of greedy bastirds.

and dont forget the trappings of wealth once you come to lead the union

the working class can kiss my ar se
ive got the formans job at last

and lets not forget the scotish
living at the cost of the english tax payer
free prescritions for jocks cus they live such un healthy lives :shock: