Strikes,Facts Figures Updates

[Bangkokhibby]

First time I've not seen a percentage based increase so its 40p no matter what your wage is. To be fair the managing director of the charity is only on just over £18 an hour which is nothing for that kind of position and I can make almost what he makes by doing paid sleepovers. Some staff don't have option of that though and hang around £11 an hour

So you work for a charity?
Then maybe demands for large pay increases is to be applauded. I know very little about the pay structure for care workers in Britain but I imagine much/most of it is private enterprise. Are care workers being exploited?

 

[Davy]

So you work for a charity?
Then maybe demands for large pay increases is to be applauded. I know very little about the pay structure for care workers in Britain but I imagine much/most of it is private enterprise. Are care workers being exploited?

There are certainly larger care organisation's who simply see the industry as a cash cow. I work for a small well established charity who are very open with their income and after quite a few years in the red they have been making small profits the last few years. I wouldn't strike because I believe they are paying what they can afford. I have the option of looking elsewhere but as I said the sleepovers help boost my wage so it is not so bad.

 

[Bangkokhibby]

There are certainly larger care organisation's who simply see the industry as a cash cow. I work for a small well established charity who are very open with their income and after guide a few years in the red they have been making small profits the last few years. I wouldn't strike because I believe they are paying what they can afford. I have the option of losing elsewhere but as I said the sleepovers help boost my wage si it is not so bad.

Respect to you sir

 

[moathibby]

Manchester Airport Workers have just won themselves a 17% pay rise.

 

[Rocky]

 

[moathibby]

So you work for a charity?
Then maybe demands for large pay increases is to be applauded. I know very little about the pay structure for care workers in Britain but I imagine much/most of it is private enterprise. Are care workers being exploited?

yES

 

[Norwayhibs]

Mick Lynch giving a speech to the BMA

 

[Jack]

BBC TV News is on just now saying the Gatwick Airport strikes called off this weekend. Carefully avoiding how much they've settled for. I can't even find the story on their website yet.

Headline from elsewhere
Gatwick Airport strikes called off this weekend as workers vote to accept 10.3% pay rise

 

[moathibby]

97% of TetleyTea Workers have just voted for strike action.They are in the GMB Union.

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

Footage of the polis and firemen having a dash on the link.....

Tension between 'riot police' and Ourense firefighters in a protest in which they used flamethrowers.

Ourense | Madrid
UpdatedMonday, October 23, 2023 - 18:50

More than 200 firefighters, on strike since last June 15 to demand better working conditions, have mobilized this day in front of the Provincial Council.

Tensión entre 'antidisturbios' de Policía y bomberos de Ourense en una protesta en la que han usado lanzallamas

Más de 200 bomberos de los parques comarcales gallegos, en huelga desde el pasado 15 de junio para reclamar mejores en sus condiciones laborales, se han movilizado en esta jornada...

www.elmundo.es

 

[egb_hibs]

Footage of the polis and firemen having a dash on the link.....

Tension between 'riot police' and Ourense firefighters in a protest in which they used flamethrowers.

Ourense | Madrid
UpdatedMonday, October 23, 2023 - 18:50

More than 200 firefighters, on strike since last June 15 to demand better working conditions, have mobilized this day in front of the Provincial Council.

Tensión entre 'antidisturbios' de Policía y bomberos de Ourense en una protesta en la que han usado lanzallamas

Más de 200 bomberos de los parques comarcales gallegos, en huelga desde el pasado 15 de junio para reclamar mejores en sus condiciones laborales, se han movilizado en esta jornada...

www.elmundo.es

Flamethrowers?! Ffs. For a non Spanish speaker, was it the firefighters or the rozzer that were using them ?

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

I used Google translate

The firemen. The polis dealt out some healthy whacks like.

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

Footage of the flamethrower on this link below....



Terrifying video shows Spanish firefighters using 'flamethrowers' to battle police
The heated confrontation saw striking firefighters clash with cops outside a council house in Galicia, Spain.

Terrifying video shows firefighters using flamethrower on cops in protest battle

The heated confrontation saw striking firefighters clash with cops outside a council house in Galicia, Spain.

www.express.co.uk

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

Just a wee article below for all the pro EU posters on here.

Obviously Poland had to be punished because they upset the snouts in the trough dafties in Brussels.

But how does it sit with yous centre left posters that Polish workers are being punished by the centre right, pro big business, pro neo liberal, Thatcher loving eu?....




Poland’s truckers blockade border with Ukraine.

The EU cannot ignore this 'peasants' revolt' any longer.

Polish truckers are blockading the Ukrainian border in protest against what they describe as Ukrainian grain flooding the EU market and undercutting prices.

Ukraine is able to charge less because it pays drivers lower salaries, collects lower agricultural taxes, and is not bound by the EU Mobility Package.

Following the EU’s decision to abolish Ukrainian licence quotas, Polish and Ukrainian lorries now use the same queues for Schengen entry, and the protesters maintain that outgoing Ukrainian lorries are being prioritised over returning EU lorries by the Ukrainian side, meaning that Polish carriers are losing business as they wait.

Poland's truckers blockade border with Ukraine

Polish truckers are blockading the Ukrainian border in protest against what they describe as Ukrainian grain flooding the EU market and undercutting prices. The Polish Supreme Audit Office reports that the price of corn in Poland has halved over the last year and a half, meaning that farmers now...

unherd.com

 

[GORDONSMITH7]

With the backdrop of the political impass for the past two years, yesterday saw a historic strike in N. Ireland, of 150,000 workers which is the largest in the past 50 years. The 16 Trades Unions worked in a coordinated manner. A lesson which their sister Unions in the rest of the UK should take note in my opinion.
Teachers, nurses, paramedics, classroom assistants, transport workers, and civil servants joining, the one-day of action to demand pay rises to catch up with their counterparts in Britain.

The date of the 18th of January is of some significance. On that date in 1914 saw the end of the heroic struggle of Irish workers during the Dublin Lockout where the Irish bosses aided and abetted by the powerful, reactionary Catholic Church tried to smash/starve the Irish Trade Unions out of existence from August - January.

1913 Dublin Lockout: Lessons for today | Socialist Appeal

The Dublin Lockout began 110 years ago, when the bosses joined forces to smash militant trade unionism in Ireland. Socialists today must learn from the inspiring example of James Connolly and Jim Larkin, and build a revolutionary leadership.

socialist.net

At commencement of the lockout Trade Unionist, Revolutionary Socialist and Hibernian wrote....

The Dublin Lockout: on the eve | Socialist Appeal

2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the Dublin Lockout, the heroic struggle of the Irish working class that began on 26th August 1913. To mark this anniversary, we are publishing an article by James Connolly, the great Irish revolutionary, written on 30th August 1913 for the Irish Worker.

socialist.net

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