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What's your source for those figures - is it as good as your source for the 'unionism is good for the economy' figures? ;-) It's just a load of sweeping assertions yet again - some of which are manifestly not the remit of unionisation. Let's clear a few of those up shall we? Is your salary comparison for equivalent jobs? When you say 'less likely to leave their jobs' what do you mean? Is this comparing with equivalent jobs? How did you calculate that 143m figure? What's the absenteeism figure and is it equivalent? How does it compare with the days lost to strikes? What do you mean 'employees that are listened to'? Is this a definition of union membership? Or is this figure for everyone who feels 'listened to' regardless of whether they're in a union or not? What do you mean union membership delivers health and safety? There's no objective meaning to this: health and safety at work is a concern for union and non-union labour alike, alongside government legislation. What is the grounds for claiming unionism brings lifelong learning? There's no grounds for that claim. Lifelong learning is an option for everyone regardless of union membership. Legal representation is available to both union and non-union employees alike. Equalities and anti-discrimination laws apply to all the workforce, not just union members. You honestly sound like you've been fed a line, and have taken it all in without any consideration. Now you're repeating it on here and it sounds hollow and naive.
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"Easy, I used each newspapers' search engine to search for m&s and the Guardian had the most hits." You become more peculiar in your assertions as you progress. "Marks & Spencer" brought up 8,270 results on the Guardian, whereas "Sainsbury" brought up 9,897, "Tesco" 12,236 By your bizarre logic, The Guardian has more of an 'intrinsic link' with Tesco than Marks & Spencer?? As I said, it's just another ridiculous bit of unsupported prejudice.
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Ah, you say the sweetest things :-$
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"Also M&S featured more search engine hits on the Guardian website than any other newspaper websites." I work in the online industry and that sentence doesn't quite make sense - what do you mean, and what's your data source? Besides, Marks & Spencer has about 10 million customers per week, whereas the Guardian only sells an average of 280,000 copies. Hence 9,720,000 Marks and Spencer customers, - 97% of them - CANNOT be Guardian buyers. I've got 50,000 quid that says more M&S customers read the News of the World than the guardian. It's just another ridiculous bit of unsupported prejudice,
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It wasn't female oppression was it? ;-)
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Why is it demonstrably untrue? What can be demonstrated? Are you saying that non-union workers in the UK have less employment rights than the unionised ones? I've not heard that. We're not conflating public sector workers and unionised workers are we? The studies we shared over in the Drawing Room said that there was no quantifiable difference between unionised and non-unionised workforces.
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"your bloody fascist liberal credentials are clear for all to see" What on earth is that supposed to mean? Is this what passes for sensible debate in your neck of the woods? Who are you trying to impress? Are they worth impressing if they're impressed by this? You're not another incarnation of AllforNun are you? So many questions - and so little likelihood of a sensible response. Another one to 'hide' I guess.
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It was an absolutely bizarre proposal, I hope it costs him his job at the next election.
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It's a ridiculous assertion that someone working in a bank can't be trusted because 300 years ago the banks were involved in slavery and military spending. That's embarrassingly silly. Bob Crow's reputation at the RMT is such that it attracts militant yobs into its ranks who use threats and menaces to get their own way. The 'democratic endorsement' of this crowd is hardly worth the ballot papers they use.
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Yes, but then it could equally have seen his supporters in hock for Actual Bodily Harm, and would have been unlikely to result in a conviction or sentence. A good swatting might be a better trick.
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77% of the UK's labour force are not in a trades union, nor are they suffering from any manifest denial of human rights or lack of tea breaks as a consequence. So we'd have to say they were redundant in that context. But I suspect that the unions only need to be perceived as a possible threat to keep the more extreme commercial or employment decisions from taking place. Hence in principal it's good to have them around, even if only in the background. The problem is when you get self-serving thugs like Bob Crow leveraging them to benefit his cronies and henchmen. The RMT isn't there to protect human rights, it's Faustian pact with the devil himself.
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Did you know 'I have a large penis' is an anagram for 'I please her vagina'? That's worth thinking about. No such thing as a coincidence.
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Pearls to swine, Applespider, pearls to swine...
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Seems an awfully exhausting investment for the awards dinner of the 16th The European Marine Sand and Gravel Conference.
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Trying the pain au chocolat. The butter croissant didn't have much going for it either.
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I prefer to have a grand mal than a petite mort, the whole band.
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The effect is created by the alignment of the sun, earth and moon, and is most apparent when the moon is close to the horizon. It's because red light (with a longer wavelength) gets bent less as it travels through the earths atmosphere than shorter blue wavelengths. When the sun is 'behind' the earth from the moon's point of view, all the light reaching it is travelling through the earth's atmosphere. All the blue light gets scattered, but the red light charges on through in a straight line and falls upon the moon. When the moon is close to the horizon, the low angle of view means the light reflected has to go through more of the atmosphere before it reaches our eyes - making the red effect even more dramatic!
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Forgive me Dougal, but is this not a case of an aggressive abusive employee who threatened his co-workers for going to work simply going through a disciplinary procedure? Has this employee not already accepted that he was aggressive and abusive? Is the RMT trying now to disrupt the disciplinary process to prevent the victims of this unpleasant yob getting justice? This is fuck all to do with 'bully boy management'. The RMT would be better talking about the 'human rights' of the victims not to be abused, instead of trying to prevent justice being done. If you're siding with the RMT in this dispute, then you are merely demonstrating that you believe in threatening people, believe in undermining juistice, and don't give a shit about the victims.
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It is so ridiculous that stroppy, greedy, militant, self-serving bullies like the RMT should attempt to glorify helping a thuggish abusive mate avoid justice as a 'human right'. It is such an insult to the billions of people around the world who genuinely suffer human rights abuses. It's a reflection of the extent to which these self-regarding narcissists have lost touch with reality.
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Eh? That was an opinion piece too? Look, I'm not saying I disagree with you, but that reference has about as much validity as saying 'look what Huguenot said'.
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The beeb's pretty leftie in an inoffensive way. Generally I agree with Carnell, albeit with the Mockney caveat on how stories are presented. To imgaine that the internet confers respectability seems insane: we've just had two major newsgathering 'lesbian campaigner' fraudsters exposed as a forty year old Edinburgh student and a rather sad twat from somewhere in the US sadlands. The internet reduces the cost of exposure, and that's more likely to appeal to bullshitters rather than honest players.
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I don't think it's worthwhile making observations about what happens elsewhere in the world and using the pronoun 'we'. As for whether allowing something is the same as doing it... Well.... We're all 'allowed' to have sex, but I seem to be somewhat unmoved by other people's experience when I'm cleaning the kitchen.
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So you're not going to back it? Just an opinion then?
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SHPE *scratches arse and attempts to engage geriatrics in light conversation to distract them from the extremely clear issue at hand* Let's remember, the real question is whether 'hello' has a plural.
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