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https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1683782095213035522 ... I've run out of words...
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a pipe smoking dog posted:What have Unite done? I'm a bit out of the loop on the union. namesake posted:If you're in a work environment where Unite actually exist or have a good retired members branch near you then don't be silly, this is exactly the same thing as all the idiots saying they're leaving the NEU because of that Ukraine motion. It's a union, not a political party. You're in it for workplace power and can organise to change all the other political bits. There's the capitulation to Labour. There's the cancellation of all screenings of The Big Lie & launch of Asa Winstanley's book. There are only 4 people in my workplace, and we're all part time and I'm the only one in a union, and scaling back my hours from January & to be fair the Trustees (we're a charity) have been pretty good about giving us raises fuss-free. I don't live near an active branch. As a non-driver & local public transport being dire, can't get to any meeting without spending a couple of hours travelling to Cardiff, overnight stay in a hotel or something, and another couple of hours getting home again next day. Anyway, I'm not 100% decided yet. And yeah, this VVV OwlFancier posted:I mean... how do you get change without threatening to withdraw your participation? A union of all places should understand that you can't just ask for things and expect to get them. If members cancelling their membership is giving them the wibbly wobblies maybe they'll listen. Nothing talks like taking away the money or obstructive protest. Writing letters and standing quiet & polite with a banner rarely leads to change. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jul 25, 2023 |
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Jul 25, 2023 19:55
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If they're anything like Unison, I wouldn't give them another dime.
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Jul 25, 2023 20:18
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Like yeah if you value what you're paying for regardless of their political conduct, then sure, keep paying them. But if you find their political stance to be sufficiently unacceptable that they aren't worth your money, I don't see why you should give it them. They aren't entitled to it.
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Jul 25, 2023 20:22
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1683782095213035522 Keith decided to go down and dirty first 
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Jul 25, 2023 20:28
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We took over a place that had Unite members in and so far all they’ve managed to achieve from an outside perspective is making anything that’s related to an HR process take for-loving-ever in order to get exactly what they were offered in the first place.
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smellmycheese posted:Keith decided to go down and dirty first  Yeah I bet they will.
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Jul 25, 2023 20:39
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generally speaking i think it's a crapshoot how good a union branch is regardless of the main union it belongs to
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Jul 25, 2023 20:42
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Yeah, our particular branch of Unison was absolutely loving useless - they often kowtowed to the uni and accepted their lowest offer as the first option then put it to ballot, then they'd never hit the threshold because no one could be hosed dealing with them as they constantly undermined their whole purpose. That's on top of the multiple times they failed many of my colleagues and myself in dealing with abusive higher ups that are still working there to this day. My team was more effective in telling managers to go gently caress themselves on our own accord.
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Jul 25, 2023 20:59
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Guavanaut posted:That front page is also a spunking cock with some words under it. I don't know why this makes me so sad, because I knew it was happening anyway, so it shouldn't matter. I guess that its because its being dressed up as a positive.
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Jul 25, 2023 20:59
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The news is such an unrelenting tide of misery that you are eventually going to hit something that finds a nerve you weren't aware could still feel.
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smellmycheese posted:Keith decided to go down and dirty first Yeah, Labour made a big point of how they reached out for strategic advice from the US Democrats and AUS Labour, and everyone who isn't a liberal oval office just thought "what the gently caress?" because those two parties - in addition to being ideologically bankrupt - rely on smear tactics to a wearying degree. Except, the Tories will always be far better at smear campaigns because they're even more sociopathic than Labour are.
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Jul 25, 2023 21:59
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https://twitter.com/MartinSLewis/status/1683849899765374979?s=20
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kingturnip posted:Yeah, Labour made a big point of how they reached out for strategic advice from the US Democrats Keith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cgbZqR2AGI
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Jul 25, 2023 22:14
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I work for myself these days but kept my Unite membership out of solidarity. Think I’ll cancel over the phone and give my reasons and rejoin if they stop melting
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Jul 25, 2023 22:36
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Gz_ODeAzg *pumps up the jock jams* Y'all ready for this
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Jul 25, 2023 22:47
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Unite keep writing to my address trying to get an old tenant who lived here to re-join. There might be a bit of a problem, as he died a year after I registered this forums account. He was in his late 90's too.
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Jul 25, 2023 22:50
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Diet Crack posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Gz_ODeAzg
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Diet Crack posted:*pumps up the jock jams* gently caress waiting for you to get it on your own, Forex gon' deliver to ya
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Jul 25, 2023 22:58
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Cannot even fabricate a piece of twee bullshit that I could care less about then the bank account of an ex MEP. Absolutely mind boggling.
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domhal posted:Cannot even fabricate a piece of twee bullshit that I could care less about then the bank account of an ex MEP. Absolutely mind boggling. Fairplay to Peter Oborne for using it to highlight bank's removing accounts from any politically active Muslim or Islamic groups.
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Jul 26, 2023 10:13
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Absolutely love to see the authorities, banks and media bending over backwards to prostrate themselves for having deigned, deigned to besmirch the good name of his his Excellency, King in All But Name, Deliverer of the Most Holy Brexit Lord Nigel of Farage, Champion of All the Peoples of England and Fishes of her Seas, Conqueror of the Empire of Brussels in Europe in General and Britain in Particular. So good of the government to step in because he and he alone was inconvenienced, it's only right after all that this one particular private individual get his every way and be repeatedly allowed to impose his will on the rest of the country.
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Jul 26, 2023 10:47
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Starmer just implying trans women are a risk to cis women, again
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Diet Crack posted:In fairness if you're paying circa £7500 for a trip to Greece, you should have travel insurance and ATOL baked into the package for that kind of money else what the gently caress are you doing If you got that kinda money to spend on vacation you shouldn't expect sympathy IMO.
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Jul 26, 2023 10:58
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as a born pessimist i did expect europe to be on fire and flooded regularly at this point, 20 odd years ago i did not expect the response to be "OUR HOLIDAYS ARE RUINED"  "this climate change lark is good for britain, actually, we should ditch green policies"
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Jul 26, 2023 11:25
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I wonder what's going to happen to all the people and businesses who are sustained by the Mediterranean tourist industry now that it's going be a burning wasteland in the summer months.
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Jul 26, 2023 11:33
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Can't wait for the gulf stream collapse so we get regular white Christmases again
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Jul 26, 2023 11:43
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BBC has an article about renting.quote:Renters compete with 20 others in battle to find a home quote:Anecdotal evidence shows tenants are offering more than the asking rent, or arriving early to get to the front of the queue. Not a nice job, but I guess someone has to do it quote:She said landlords in the area were selling up, because profits had dropped - with 43% fewer homes available to rent in London compared with 2019. 
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Jul 26, 2023 12:06
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fuctifino posted:BBC has an article about renting. £2150 a month in mortgage will get you a literal mansion with grounds if you didn't want to live in London. You could probably buy that fort in Scotland.
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Jul 26, 2023 12:10
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20 people, good one. When I was trying to find places in Manchester in September last year one guy said he'd received 140 emails in the 24 hours since he'd put the advert up. I spent every spare minute I had for a solid month firing off messages and managed four viewings total. It was without question the most exhausting and stressful month of my life. The number of viewings is not even slightly reflective of the number of interested applicants. The rental market is absolutely turbofucked.
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loving Preston as well, of all places. Look I tolerate living in Preston as much as the next person but this is insane. Probably not related to what I remember a mortgage advisor telling us about 8 years ago that he would recommend people with £100,000 to invest that rather than buy a small place to rent out, put down 10 x 10k deposits and rake it in.
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Jul 26, 2023 12:16
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Z the IVth posted:£2150 a month in mortgage will get you a literal mansion with grounds if you didn't want to live in London. 2k per month mortgage would limit you to around 375k for the property. So a detached 5 bed in the suburbs of Glasgow (or a one bed flat in Edinburgh).
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I looked up what flats in are going for in the area of London I used to live in. 2k+ a month for a one bedroom.
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The Guardian posted:Starmer suggests Labour changed its trans policy in light of what happened to Scotland's gender recognition bill where do you even start with this. go eat poo poo
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Jul 26, 2023 12:34
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I wouldn't put it past starmer to advocate for the banning of transitioning and banning us from basic spaces
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Miftan posted:I looked up what flats in are going for in the area of London I used to live in. 2k+ a month for a one bedroom. This is what I'm terrified of come our yearly renewal in October, we're paying about £400 a month less than the ridiculous market rate on account of being here for ~8 years. Some new guys have taken over the Letting Agents recently, and I'm making GBS threads it they're just gonna punch an extra 500 a month on top, if that's even legal.
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Angepain posted:where do you even start with this. go eat poo poo I just want someone to ask them how the evidence backs up their policy. Literally: "how many police reports are there of a woman being attacked by a trans woman in a 'woman-only space'?" Facts and figures aren't enough to stop these TERF cunts, but some people at least will respond well to them.
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keep punching joe posted:2k per month mortgage would limit you to around 375k for the property. So a detached 5 bed in the suburbs of Glasgow (or a one bed flat in Edinburgh). drat the Fort is £500k  https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/126820367#/media?id=media0&ref=photoCollage&channel=RES_BUY
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Z the IVth posted:drat the Fort is £500k I reckon if the thread clubbed together we could buy it and all live there together.
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