Union members back budget day strike

Mr Lawn, I note your comments regarding the 'toothless' pcs and would comment that we in the pcs actually fought tooth and nail ! I would also add that exceptionally good voluntary redundancy packages were negotiated by pcs which non union members also benefited from and which I'm sure your family have been grateful for. I will also point out that terms and conditions for pcs members have deteriated and that a union is only as good as it's membership, I for one do not consider myself toothless.

Steve, I would make no apologies for taking Strike action. I know that any section of the working class that is fighting back against this Con/Dem pro-monopoly capitalist government is on my side. The only problem I have is that it is not political enough. Let’s be clear PCS is fighting austerity, just like anyone else is fighting cuts. Strike, these days, is another kind of protest. It is a political action. If I want to oppose the Council for their measures I might have to do it a different way. If you work in Tax then your action may be even more effective than a person who is not working, and good luck to you in using the action of withdrawing labour power to try and achieve it. Those not working are still affected by the austerity measures just the same, measures that are aimed at making the workers pay instead of the Rich. In fighting against attacks on wages it’s about income. If you have had benefit cuts it’s about income too. If you are fighting for decent pensions, there are

If you are fighting against cuts, then we too are against cuts. So are we saying your struggle is our struggle? Of course and the old addage that an injury to one is an injury to all applies. If your living standards are attacked, then you should do the only thing you can to defend them. And that is to strike. If someone else who has no job but is still working class then they may protest or demonstrate in any way they can. It is more appalling for those who are working and do not use their labour power as a lever if they have the ability to do so. We know that you have to sacrifice wages to do it.There are many who are not working who feel more helpless.The understanding about this form of action amongst working class people is called Solidarity. It exists because we know that in the broader picture one persons struggle is everyone’s struggle. This is a fact of life whether anyone likes it or not.

Steve, I would make no apologies for taking Strike action. I know that any section of the working class that is fighting back against this Con/Dem pro-monopoly capitalist government is on my side. The only problem I have is that it is not political enough. Let’s be clear PCS is fighting austerity, just like anyone else is fighting cuts. Strike, these days, is another kind of protest. It is a political action. If I want to oppose the Council for their measures I might have to do it a different way. If you work in Tax then your action may be even more effective than a person who is not working, and good luck to you in using the action of withdrawing labour power to try and achieve it. Those not working are still affected by the austerity measures just the same, measures that are aimed at making the workers pay instead of the Rich. In fighting against attacks on wages it’s about income. If you have had benefit cuts it’s about income too. If you are fighting for decent pensions, there are

never been a union man and now never will be, im eternally grateful to my grandfathers generation, they fought the bosses and beat them, we all enjoy a decent living compared to what there was before they marched for the right to earn decent money. most unions now are solely in existance to interfere in steady output of productivity, what does a strike achieve nowadays anyway. a quicker road to redundancy

Sorry but Steve Gibbs forgot to mansion is FIRST CLASS RAIL FARE, they work a max of 20 HOURS in westminster thats if they are there at all as they work 30 WEEKS a year MAX. And STAY in a house or HOTEL payed by the TAX payer. AND they get a MINIMUM of £65738 PLUS costs for his / here staff. AND they wont MORE when did YOU ever see a MP going short when DECIDING on THEIR OWN salaries?
So Darren Lawn + Mike Crowe think on there may be a opening for either of you two VERY SOON.

This is the very same toothless pcs who did nothing to help those at the island tax office that was closing years ago.

"""If you can't stand the heat of the kitchen ........."""

What most of you don't realise is that most of the PCS members have had a pay freeze for the last few years and now only one% a year from now on.
To the one who say "your lucky to have a job", I look back to when I started work in the late 50s early 60s, when the government set the rate of pay for ALL workers, an old penny an hour was the norm and the standard working week was 46 hours.
We didn't have all the benefits you have now and if you didn't take one of the three jobs offered to you, you got no benefits at all. Look in the Count Press, loads of jobs coming up so take one and get some self respect back and stop having a go at the ones who have a job and are trying to protect them!!

Intreastng comnent members pay sibscriptions for people to be represented and to have a advocate. unions do not have all the answets or funding to run their own companies All parties make mistakes often it just needs a bit of common sense . I do not have all the answers .

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