While yesterday’s meeting was interesting – its always good hear about the plans for the company directly from the man at the top – it was just as illuminating to pick up things from colleagues outside the meeting. I am not directly involved in the European Works Council so a lot of it was new […]
Entries Tagged as 'Trade Unions'
The benefits of union membership
May 1st, 2008 · Comments Off on The benefits of union membership · Work
There are many benefits of trade union membership as I am always telling colleagues at work, trying to get them to join up. I tell them all about the legal protection offered, extra benefits gained from the company, the pensions advice, the discounts on all sorts of goods and services, and all that but I […]
Tags: France·Trade Unions
Spanish practices
October 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Politics
Where did this term ‘Spanish practices’ come from all of a sudden? All the media reports on the postal workers’ strike are throwing it around as if it is a term everyone uses all the time, but I can’t recall hearing it before. Someone else please admit to also being unfamiliar with it – or […]
Tags: Language·Trade Unions
Minimum Wage
October 8th, 2007 · Comments Off on Minimum Wage · Politics
I treated myself to a day without newspapers today, but Iansredlog alerted me to this story which was in the Observer. It is all about the minimum wage and whether it is set high enough, leading to this quote: What does the minimum wage say about our society? 'It's the floor beneath which nobody should […]
Tags: Trade Unions
Politics is boring!
August 15th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Politics
Anyone who has done around knocking on doors for a political party will have heard the complaints many times: "politics is boring", "its not relevant to me", and "they are all the same anyway". There is some truth in that of course. Even those of us involved in politics, albeit in a small grass roots […]
Tags: Canvassing·Tories·Trade Unions
Cut the red tape
August 13th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Politics
When the Tories pretend to be socially responsible, caring and cuddly they are nothing short of laughable, but when the mask slips and they show their real face they are beyond parody. The latest scheme is to try pushing the idea of ‘cutting the red tape’ as contained in John Redwood’s new cunning plan. By […]
Tags: Tories·Trade Unions
Amicus Goodies
July 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Work
The Amicus people were visiting work today and set up a stall in the canteen. After lunch I thought I would go over and say hello on my way out and introduce myself as a new-ish member. I came away with a very useful satchel (handy for when my current man-bag wears out), a health […]
Tags: Trade Unions
Union meeting
July 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Politics
I went to my first trade union meeting yesterday. In all the time I was a member of TSSA I never went to any meetings – I was in a London branch and living in Sussex so there was no appeal. I was a sort of rep for local consultations but that didn’t involve going […]
Tags: Trade Unions
Change of unions
May 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Politics
I have only had my membership card for Amicus for a couple of weeks and it now looks like its out of date already as today I received an e-mail from something called Unity which is apparently what my union will be called now it has merged with the TGWU. I should have been paying […]
Tags: Trade Unions
Crawley & Horsham UAF
April 12th, 2007 · 24 Comments · Politics
A Crawley and Horsham UAF got a little bit closer to being established tonight at a meeting we had. As there is currently no proper organisation, everything is a bit chaotic so the main topic was how to use what resources we have to counter the BNP candidate sin 4 wards in Crawley and 2 […]
Tags: BNP·Elections·Racism·Trade Unions·UAF
