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  1. I Sit Next To A Badger-Leazes Corner

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    As some know, I work as a lifeguard in Cramlington, just casual so no contract but I get quite a lot of hours.

    Not sure about any other organisations, but with mine being council based, the strike on pensions is happening next Wednesday.

    I was due to work that night, but they've asked me to work during the day so they can open the building. I want to, but slightly worried about the consequences as many mates who do have contracts there are striking. I'm not in the union, I'm not in the pension scheme and I fully support what they are doing but I want and need the money.

    What do you think? Should I just work and face walking past them on the way in? Should I expect abuse?

    Bit of a Tash article.
     
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  2. Gutierrez's Right Boot

    Gutierrez's Right Boot Well-Known Member

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    Have a word with them.Explaining you need the money but support them
     
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  3. Speedo

    Speedo Active Member

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    SCAB!




    In all seriousness, if the whole of the rest of the lifeguards are on strike, I'd go on a solidarity one mate.
     
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  4. Aldridge_Prior

    Aldridge_Prior Active Member

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    Depends how much you need the money mate. If they disapprove of you working because you need the money more than they do then it's their problem and it would be totally wrong of them to conflict your interests with theirs.
     
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  5. overseasTOON

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    Been across picket lines many times as a contractor or working for outside agencies and I'd say go to work and get paid.

    The Post Office was striking in the mid 90's and an agency was going to pay me £15 per hour to work from 10pm to 6am for 3 days in a row. Seeing that this was before minimum wage and as a chef, I was on roughly £1.65 per hour for skilled work I jumped at the chance.

    First night heading in and the picket line booed me for waltzing in. I told them how much I supported them and wished for them to keep the strike going for as long as possible because I was doing a job that required no skill at all (sorting post) and was paid a shed load for it.
     
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  6. Jesus Was A Geordie

    Jesus Was A Geordie Well-Known Member

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    Hmmm, tricky one...As others have said, have a word with them and see what they say and go from there.
     
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  7. SirBR

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    If there your mates and know what your situation is and that you need the money, then they should understand. Especially if you've told them you back what they are doing.

    I work in a building with a lot of ex civial servants who will be striking and have striked before as well and don't agree with what they are doing. They should be grateful they get a pension where a lot of people don't, and when you look at how much they actually pay into their own pension it's shocking how little they actually contribute to it.

    If they try to approach me when walking into work I blank them and say I'm not interested, and they've been told not to harrass the other staff. Which if any of your mates are on the picket line shouldn't either.

    If they are mates and give you grief they aren't very good mates.
     
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  8. Jesus Was A Geordie

    Jesus Was A Geordie Well-Known Member

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    **** that!
     
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  9. Masanari

    Masanari Active Member

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    Like others have said it is a trade off between how much you need the money and how much you are bothered about the strike.

    You could always use a disguise to get in unnoticed.

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  10. Aldridge_Prior

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    Totally agree with you mate, I didn't support the fire fighters or the British Airways strikes either. Everyone is earning less money these days and they need to ****ing get on with it and consider themselves lucky to have a job let alone a pension.

    I can't go on strike in my section of work so when I wasn't happy recently I started working for another company. Sorted.
     
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  11. overseasTOON

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    That was the going rate for a sous chef in Norwich at the time in 1993/4. When you worked 90 hours a week it added up though as you rarely ever got out to spend it.

    When minimum wage kicked in towards the end of the 90's I saw my pay packet rocket well above £1000 a month and it would have been higher except that the Working Hours Directive restricted the hours we could legally work (though I did manage to get 3 months of 100+ hour weeks in when the kitchen staff were decimated by glandular fever).
     
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  12. Why aye Cabaye

    Why aye Cabaye Active Member

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    It's not a difficult decision. You do what you want to do. Just because others choose to strike it doesn't mean you have to. They are allowed the free choice to strike, you have the same right not to. Not everyone can afford to sacrifice a days wages, that's what ****s me off about people on the picket line that have a go at that those choosing to work. Everyone is allowed to make their own decision.

    I work for a university, I'm not in the Union (as they're a waste of money and only have one course of action - striking) and I'll be working on the 30th. If anyone has a go at me as I drive through the gates I'll stop my car right there, get out, and give them all two barrels full.

    People in the public sector get very good conditions compared to most, and have no real foundation to base their strike on. They need to get real.
     
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  13. Arfa's Left Foot

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    Go to work. Striking is for lazy ****ers.
     
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  14. The Secret Ingredient

    The Secret Ingredient Well-Known Member

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    as your not contracted is there a chance if you don't go in and support them they will finish you
     
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  15. Why aye Cabaye

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    Yeah, if you're not a Union member you aren't allowed to join strike action I thought. Where I work you're not allowed to book annual leave for the strike day either (unless it was pre-booked before the strikes were announced).

    So if you don't do your shift you'll have an unauthorised absence. If you pretend you're sick you'd need a doctors note too on a strike day.
     
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  16. ThrillerinAsprilla

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    Splitter!!!!!
     
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  17. Amnesiac

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    **** 'em, go in to work!
     
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  18. jimileysbaldhead

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    If anyone has a go at you, this normally works.


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  19. overseasTOON

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    The wife has decided to strike at the end of the month as she's worked the last few strikes covering for their absence.

    She doesn't really believe in the cause per say but she's sick and tired of working the overtime (she doesn't get extra pay for) and training senior management to do the roles that are required when half the senior management don't even attend work on the strike day as they've had to stay at home because the kids can't go to school.
     
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  20. The Situation

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    I agree on the pension front, the way things are going most people around 20 won't have a pension as the state won't be able to afford it, due to many conditions such as people generally living longer.

    However I totally disagree with your opinion on firefighters strike, they are a unique job where they have to be at full fitness at all times it is high stress and long hours, most of them work 56 hour weeks, and have to have second jobs to make ends meet on top of that. They not only deal with fire's now, they deal with chemical spills and car accidents (increasingly so).

    Im not a firefighter, but know a few and its more then a job they see trauma alot!
     
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