Government seeks injunction to prevent border staff striking

[Pete]

I hope they fail...

It will start a precedent where a working man is forced to do whatever the bosses tell them to, whether it is right or wrong.

This country is starting to slip behind in matters of equality. No doubt we will follow the USA down their disgraceful road; making homosexuality illegal, denying a womans rights over her own body, etc, etc.

[Fly]

NUM, miners strike, scab unions, Maggie Thatcher bla bla bla. . . .

Always said it. Go read my posts on CF from the last x years. (Not you Pete)
My opinion hasn't and won't be changed !!

[chesterfieldchris]

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[therealjr]

Well you could start by making sure that the government don't go at their jobs like bulls in the proverbial.
The border agency protest isn't about their pay and conditions its about the fact that job cuts mean they are not doing their job properly. Hence why people are queing to get through at airports for 4 hours, illegals are slipping in and 11 year old children can get on board planes without any documentation.
So what has come out recently? That the government have actually cut 1000 jobs more than they meant to!

[k4blades]

They bottled it and so they should.
Personally I think unions should be financially liable for any loss they cause a member of the public. So if someone misses a flight and losses their holiday due to strike action, they ought to be able to claim the money back from the unions. I have nothing against the principle of workers rights, but the unions always take the piss to try and blackmail their employers, and its the normal man on the street who loses out.
And many are useless anyway, overpaid, over benefited and incompetent....news today, 11 year old boy flies to Italy without a ticket or passport...great border control then.....

[Pete]

Bottled it? Nah. May be perceived that way by the blinkered right.

[k4blades]

Blinkered....not like the unions then who fail to see the economic mess we are in and refuse any sort of change to their working practices though millions in the private sector have had to adapt. Those blinkers nearly bankrupt Britain in the 70s, and its only because of Maggies reforms and the growth of the private sector, that the unions aren't doing it again now.

[Pete]

Funny how your arguments rely on typical right-wing clichés and politics that are 40 or 50 years out of date.

Margaret Thatcher did more harm to this country than any other politician in living memory, with her politics of greed, power, selfishness and general mean-spiritedness.

[k4blades]

What hypocrisy....I think millions of people would say its the union movement that is outdated by 30 - 40 years. And as for Maggie Thatcher creating greed, she only got the power that she had  because even back then people were sick of the unions holding the country to ransom, even their Labour buddies, demanding ever more money that the country couldn't afford, causing the winter of discontent.
I have no allegiance to any party, I will gladly critisise both, but at least I'm not a hypocrite and its not me thats blinkered, using every opportunity going to post anti-Govt topics but never posting any positive news.
And theres a difference between greed and aspiration. Thanks to Thatcher millions of people now own their own homes that would never have been able to before, while other people sit around whinging because someone has more money than them and they resent it.
Take YOUR blinkers off.

[chesterfieldchris]

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[Pete]

I've met people in the public sector that do that sickie thing, they actually feel they're being clever...

F'in disgrace.

[Alsatian]

I've met people in the public sector that do that sickie thing, they actually feel they're being clever...

F'in disgrace.

Yes, I was aware of that too during my time with the Post Office - if I remember right they were called Whitleys (sp)