Crossing picket lines – issues/etiquette?
Discussion
All,
There’s a big local government strike for two days next week and I have been informed that there will be a picket line at my usual place of work. Now I am not a member of the respective uni(s)on and as I’m in a more isolated and senior position tend not to bother myself with the business of the proletariat.
However I will need to ‘cross’ the aforementioned picket line to reach my office. This is something that I have never encountered before and I am curious. I wish to hear about your experiences – from both sides really.
What I don’t want is to be jostled by a group of unwashed communists as I attempt to go about my daily business. Will they try and intimidate me? Can I kick them in the face?
Comrades I await your anecdotes and suggestions.
There’s a big local government strike for two days next week and I have been informed that there will be a picket line at my usual place of work. Now I am not a member of the respective uni(s)on and as I’m in a more isolated and senior position tend not to bother myself with the business of the proletariat.
However I will need to ‘cross’ the aforementioned picket line to reach my office. This is something that I have never encountered before and I am curious. I wish to hear about your experiences – from both sides really.
What I don’t want is to be jostled by a group of unwashed communists as I attempt to go about my daily business. Will they try and intimidate me? Can I kick them in the face?
Comrades I await your anecdotes and suggestions.
t about them... Not physically able!Feck all will happen. You'll walk past them, they'll offer you a leaflet with the reasons behind their actions, you take it and say "Thanks" and carry on into the office. Unless it's raining, when no bugger will be there.
What do you think will happen, a baying rentamob throwing bricks at you?
What do you think will happen, a baying rentamob throwing bricks at you?
The abuse is not entirely unexpected and is probably deserved.
I am too young to remember when much of the UK was on strike, but I remember as a schoolboy listening to my father regale me with tales of the miner's strike. He spent much of it bopping Scargill's army around the head with a riot shield and truncheon.
I am too young to remember when much of the UK was on strike, but I remember as a schoolboy listening to my father regale me with tales of the miner's strike. He spent much of it bopping Scargill's army around the head with a riot shield and truncheon.
Bee_Jay said:
My wife is a teaching assistant and a member of Unison and has not been either balloted or informed of this strike.
Not very well organised...
Just for your missus then... http://www.unison.org.uk/acrobat/17533.pdfNot very well organised...
bigandclever said:
Bee_Jay said:
My wife is a teaching assistant and a member of Unison and has not been either balloted or informed of this strike.
Not very well organised...
Just for your missus then... http://www.unison.org.uk/acrobat/17533.pdfNot very well organised...
Bee_Jay said:
bigandclever said:
Bee_Jay said:
My wife is a teaching assistant and a member of Unison and has not been either balloted or informed of this strike.
Not very well organised...
Just for your missus then... http://www.unison.org.uk/acrobat/17533.pdfNot very well organised...
adycav said:
Bee_Jay said:
bigandclever said:
Bee_Jay said:
My wife is a teaching assistant and a member of Unison and has not been either balloted or informed of this strike.
Not very well organised...
Just for your missus then... http://www.unison.org.uk/acrobat/17533.pdfNot very well organised...
To be honest it will be nice to have her focused on cleaning the house properly for a couple of days... ;-)
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