Johnny Bognor

So what are your thoughts on a 20% pay rise for the leader of Unite, when many of his members are earning less than the national average and would be lucky to get more than 2%? From the Times article, Bob Crow, the militant leader of the RMT rail union whose pay and benefits rose by 8% to £91,646 in 2008, was out on the picket line at Liverpool Street station in London as his members staged a 48-hour strike in a dispute over pay. Crow said: “I don’t really know if my pay rise was inflation busting.” WTF? Do Union leaders forego their pay when their members (who lose out) go out on strike? Didn't think so. So until anyone can show me otherwise, the Union leaders are in it for themselves.

Did he get pay rises much higher in percentage terms than his members???? I think Union leaders should only get an average pay rise in line with the pay rises attained for their members. Without this, they are no better than the bosses of the companies they are looking to take on. Fair play to Matt Wrack, at least he has principles.

To be fair BTF, I did not say all Union staff, just the leaders. Well, it is on ignoramus dotcom...... http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2009/01/15/while-millions-take-pay-cuts-union-leaders-rake-it ....and the well informed balanced thinkers see it too. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6736206.ece Still, if you choose to ignore the truth, that's up to you.

Remember that the same party claimed that it had put an end to boom and bust, proclaimed to have saved the world as well as offering the nation a clear choice between Labour investment vs cuts. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

...and that is the problem with the leadership of the unions. They couldn't give a monkeys about the staff any more than the management do. They exist for their own power and exploit the employees to this end. Take the reasons for strike action by the CWU, it changes as often as the weather. Ask 10 posties why they went on strike and they'll give you 10 different reasons. The day to day work that unions do for staff is important but the national strikes are more about power broking and being seen to be doing something when union memberships are falling. It stinks as far as I am concerned especially with commercial businesses, unlike 'real' public sector monopolies - where we have no choice. Take BA for example, they have made a near £300 million pound loss for the first time ever in the first six months of the year. Unite bang on about the £50 million worth of savings that they have "put on the table". This doesn't even make a dent in things considering that the first six months are traditionally the best six months of the year. If Unite and their members go on strike, I hope BA passengers switch to Virgin (whose employees voted against strike action) and never go back. It'll teach them a valuable lesson.

Barber is a ****. "We can now have a period of calm where we hope we can genuinely take forward modernisation in a way that puts the union at the centre," he said. Union at the centre? That is why union people should NEVER run businesses. Successful businesses put the CUSTOMER at the centre.

I will teach my kids to respect and look out for those that cannot fend for themselves. Something your parents clearly failed to do.

Well that's a good start. There you go again. 19C may be many things but to use the condition again as an insult is offensive. Here let me help: http://fmfeat.tripod.com/autismissues.htm http://www.neurologychannel.com/autism/symptoms.shtml I fail to see the link between 19C(an internet persona)'s forum behaviour and the tendencies of autism. I thought you were just a teacher - and a prejudiced one at that - but now you're a Doctor? That's the problem with teachers, they think they know it all. Glad you're not teaching my kids.

I can see your point, however I have to disagree. I have an older autistic brother who is now in his 40's. Autism was not always in the public domain, as it is now, and when growing up in the late 80's, Rainman proved useful in explaining my brothers condition. People would ask what was 'wrong' (not my choice of word) with my brother and Rainman enabled me to explain his condition to some extent. If anything, the film put autism on the map and made things seem more 'normal' and 'acceptable' to the wider society and contibuted to the overall awareness of the condition. As for VFTT throwing Rainman in as an insult, I find that ****ing disgusting and offensive. It is far worse than 19C's political point scoring and shows a severe lack of respect and sensitivity. VFTT you should apologise! If you belittle someone for the colour of their skin, you are racist scum. Belittle those who are some of the most vunerable in society and can't fend for themselves, this is OK? Serious hypocracy on this forum sometimes.

Fair play Borris http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8343275.stm?ls Would Red Ken have done the same, or just turned and walked the other way???

I would like to come to, so long as there are no sour grapes on the cheeseboard.

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Steady on!

That is totally unrealistic. It couldn't have been a postman, they're on strike.

So the CWU are continuing with their customer recruitment drive on behalf of DHL. I see that other ad agency, Unite, is also about to go on a customer recruitment drive on behalf of Virgin Atlantic. Ad Agencies (disguised as unions) rock!

NC, you're bang out of order on this. You say.... But your opening line was...... You can keep trying to dig yourself out of this, but if you can be bothered to click on the HAS link, you can see that this was just one event out of many, so your point about the football related evening does not stand. Even if this was the only event run, then the only question should be, did it raise enough money? I think you should apologise.

You mean the... Na Na Na Na-Na Na-Na Na, Na-Na, Na-Na, Na Na Na Na Na Na-Na Na, Na-Na, Na-Na, Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, RICKIE LAMBERT, SOUTHAMPTON'S GOAL MACHINE I thought it was quite inventive to be fair especially the Na-Na bit.

How about vote tory in watford....(irrespective of your political persuasion) 1) to give Clown a bloody nose 2) to remove ****tish lib dem councillors (http://www.watford.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/council-and-democracy/) Simples http://www.richardforwatford.com/2009/10/parents-and-playgrounds-when-will-common-sense-prevail-in-watford/

...since when would that matter? They'll just get those annoying little people (commonly referred to as taxpayers) to cough up or pick the notes off the leftie magic money tree.

(to the tune of she'll be coming round the mountain when she comes) We've got Marcus Liebherr leading from the front, We got rid of rupert lowe, the stupid **** We can go out on the La-ash, 'Cos our clubs got loads of cash We've got Marcus Liebherr leading from the front

There are a few companies that provide this "service". Satellite Direct have a number of offices across Bognor and Chichester. They purport to be calling from Sky, which is not the case as they have nothing to do with Sky. http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2009/10/sky-warranty-rogues-satellite.html http://boakes.org/spam-satellite-direct/ They general rule of thumb should be that you NEVER give your bank details to anyone unless you are sure of their authenticity. If someone calls asking for your details, ask for their phone number so that you can call them back (whilst checking them out first).

If you get a Sleep to Live mattress, it is made in two halves, so that each person gets the right mattress for their weight/profile.

GM's back. Maybe he didn't disappear afterall........just lurking in the shadows

Welcome back, you were missed you know...... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=17494

What mine or yours? As for the motoring section, I think I've saved you more than the SWF subscription fee(s) on your wife's tyres. Did you take my advice on your new car?