Showing posts with label strikes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strikes. Show all posts
Wednesday, 13 September 2017

Quote of the day - transport technology and strikes

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We are in for a decade and more of transport strikes as those working in that industry resist the technological changes - here's Tim Ne...
Thursday, 14 April 2016

How doctors strikes save lives...

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**** It's OK dear reader, I'm not getting all soft in my dotage, I still think that doctors - give the oaths they swear and the mo...
Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Quote of the day: Why doctors shouldn't strike

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**** Nothing to add t o this: When a country operates under a healthcare monopoly, its citizens are fundamentally at the mercy of the p...
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Thursday, 27 June 2013

About those teachers striking...

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**** As you know I don't like it and see it as counterproductive - worse striking undermines the idea of teaching as a professional vo...
Monday, 18 February 2013

Can we have more BBC strikes please?

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**** I understand that the BBC's journalists went on strike today. And there was a refreshing change to my morning listening. Normal...
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Wednesday, 30 May 2012

I always knew a lot of doctors were in it for the money...

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**** Not all, of course, as this comment shows : Dr Dan Poulter MP said: "As a doctor, my first duty is to my patients. That i...
Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Strikes - this comment just about sums it up for me...

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**** From the comments to this piece in the T&A : The recession forced my company to make redundancies. So I do have to do other p...
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Monday, 21 November 2011

It's not Unity if you achieve it through bullying....

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Raise your banners high Strength to strength and line by line Unity must never die Raise your banners high Firstly – before I dive in...
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Thursday, 11 August 2011

The problem with trade unionism - revisited...

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**** OK it's America and this sort of thing is illegal in the UK (although don't pretend for a second that no pressure is ever p...
Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Tell me again about those strikes?

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**** The latest figures confirm the public-private sector pay gap: Information released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) yes...
Monday, 13 June 2011

You're all right, Ian!

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Dave Prentiss, the highly-paid leader of Unison is leading the charge : 'It will not be one day of action. We know that won’t change ...
Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Bring it on!

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**** The public sector trade unions - or at least their leaders - are threatening us with strikes again. After assorted teachers' unio...
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Monday, 7 March 2011

The Blackleg Miner

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Some of you will know I have something of a penchant for lefty folk music – well folk music really but quite a lot of it is pretty lefty! An...
Monday, 28 February 2011

A reminder to Britain's left about Libya

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*** From The Times October 28, 1984 : Arthur Scargill, the president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), and Roger Windsor, th...
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Thursday, 4 November 2010

Go on BBC News - go on strike. We don't give a fig, you know.

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It’s hard to be sympathetic with very well paid BBC journalists who may (or may not depending on a revaluation and the impact of indexing ch...
Sunday, 4 April 2010

Using strikes to change policy is wrong

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*** I had planned to pen a little rant about the iniquities of the assorted teacher trade unions who - as it their Easter wont - are threate...
Monday, 23 November 2009

Why we needed Maggie.....starting with the Russian spy who owned the Labour Party

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