Your favourite anti-union cliches!

[Fuchs66]

I nearly choked on my foccacaccia

Dont you talk like that with me young'un, what is a caccia anyroad?

 

[Lo Siento.]

Dont you talk like that with me young'un, what is a caccia anyroad?

it was new-fangled bread in 1991.

 

[Fuchs66]

it was new-fangled bread in 1991.

Well why would you do that to it?

And if you're going to write fuck then do it and none of this feck, fick or focc rubbish, bloody namby pamby!

 

[Lo Siento.]

Well why would you do that to it?

And if you're going to write fuck then do it and none of this feck, fick or focc rubbish, bloody namby pamby!

Can't help it, I'm soft from decades of beer and sandwiches with the prime minister

 

[DotCommunist]

italian practices

 

[TruXta]

italian practices

Anal?

 

[DotCommunist]

thats greek

 

[Hocus Eye.]

italian practices

'Spanish Practices' is the expression you are looking for.

 

[DotCommunist]

but not the bread

 

[treelover]

You would think they had just fiddled the LIbor rate, marketed a unfit psychiatric drug to teenagers or claimed for a moat going by the DM coverage...

 

[isvicthere?]

Perhaps even finishing off with some ice cream and jelly, the greedy bastards.

Maybe even trifle!

 

[starfish2000]

Im in the RMT but thats cos working on the railway I get threatened by the public daily. The RMT are weird cos the tube workers are getting bonuses but my lot are not. im working some mad shifts during the Olympics, stuff thats well out of my hours for about 6 weeks and its just expected. I sort of feel we are all judged jut cos of the tube workers

But the last time I worked in a non unionised environment I was financially raped by a US multinational, so the people telling me the private sector are fair and nice are fucking liars and i was doing a high responsibility job for the lowest amount of money Ive ever earned so its the devil you know I guess.

 

[Citizen66]

Im in the RMT but thats cos working on the railway I get threatened by the public daily. The RMT are weird cos the tube workers are getting bonuses but my lot are not. im working some mad shifts during the Olympics, stuff thats well out of my hours for about 6 weeks and its just expected. I sort of feel we are all judged jut cos of the tube workers

Well the Olympics are being held in London so we have a bargaining chip.

 

[William of Walworth]

Been digging well back into this classic thread and ...

Surely worth a near 5 year bump, this much earlier post! Especially as I'd never seen it til now ...

[posted way back on page 6/September 8 2007]

Anyway, here's my personal top 15 in no particular order.

1: Holding the public to ransom.
2: I'm no fan of Thatcher but at least she took on the unions.
3: The dead left unburied.
4: The politics of envy.
5: They were needed 100 years ago but...
6: They have a monopoly on labour/are a cartel.
7: If they don't like their job, why don't they leave and do something else
8: We must all work together in partnership.
9: Strike at the drop of a hat.
10: Strikes discourage tourism/foreign investment etc
11: We were always willing to talk to the union there was no need for this strike.
12: Something or other about Cuba.
13: I've just been made redundant but you don't see me making trouble
14: Anecdote involving callous treatment of sick/dead baby/pensioner/disabled person.
15: Unions come in through your window at night and steal your maps, and then when you want to go out somewhere exciting you can't, because all you have is a hopelessly futile grid reference, SU 680 313, darkly mocking you, and so you have to stay at home and toil, and even when you've finished toiling, you have nothing left to do but quietly sob over your one missed chance of freedom.

Loving no 15 especially -- but it does raise the vital questions of
(a) where is mauvais nowadays?
and
(b) has he still got it?

As for the earlier ones, plenty of em still being trundled out right up to and into 2012, as already pointed out ....

 

[isvicthere?]

There was one on Newsnight last night. They had some tory minister on (forget his name) talking about the threatened strike the day before the Olympic Games. 21% voted, and of those, 11% voted in favour of a strike. A majority - slim, but a majority nevertheless! That's how democracy works!

This tory twat didn't so much suggest, as took is as axiomatic, that everyone who didn't vote in the ballot was "against" the strike. More annoying: Gavin Esslar didn't pick him up on it.

 

[ddraig]

if only he used the same logic for people who didn't vote for him, his cronies or party...