Unions vs Conservative government, the rematch

[doodab]

I find it umbelievable that the powers that be are pushing through pay cuts and job cuts when border security is a laughing stock and they are struggling to recruit staff. They should be worrying about staff retention, not doing their utmost to piss people off with the olympics round the corner. This is grade A management stupidity.

Those advocating they 'find another job' would look a bit silly if they did just that en masse as the problem would get far worse.

[AtW]

If a company has really shafted you on employment law - these days you can have no win no fee lawyers.

First those "no win no fee" lawyers would only take sure win cases.

Secondly the person who agrees to go with them is likely to get shafted second time.

That said unions that have members in different companies should not be legal - it's a monopoly and just like companies are not allowed to offer unified working conditions in a sector same should apply to unions.

[SueEllen]

It surprises me. Each time I visit the UK, with my British passport, I´m asked by passport control 'how long do you intend to stay´, and occasionally ´are you coming here to work´. My first instinct is to respond ´none of your business´ seeing as I am a British citizen and have the right to live and work in the UK. Are they just pretending to do something useful by making things slow and difficult for people who are allowed to be in the UK?

No they are actually checking that your level of English matches what it says on the passport so you are really likely to be the person in the photo.

Unfortunately unlike their foreign counterparts they aren't intelligent enough to know what flight you came in on, and ask you something like "So you flew in from Heathrow?" When they know full well that there are no Heathrow flights within those hours.

If you don't give them a fluid answer in English, regardless of whether it's rude or polite, preferably with a nice British accent then you will get detained.

And I know people who have been detained.

[centurian]

Can't wait until the Olypmics are over, so that the unions lose their massive bargaining chip.

Hopefully Boris will then finally take on the tube unions. Let them strike for a month if they like (*). If it means I have to walk to work every day, so be it if it means their stranglehold gets broken.



(*) - Which they won't - they can't afford to. It's not like the miners that were prepared to go hungry for months at a time. As soon as they can't afford their second holiday, they'll be back to work.

[NotAllThere]

It surprises me. Each time I visit the UK, with my British passport, I´m asked by passport control 'how long do you intend to stay´, and occasionally ´are you coming here to work´. My first instinct is to respond ´none of your business´ seeing as I am a British citizen and have the right to live and work in the UK. Are they just pretending to do something useful by making things slow and difficult for people who are allowed to be in the UK?

I've never been asked. How do they know you live abroad?

[Bacchus]

Sack them all and draft in the police and the military.

Oh wait.....

Sack them all and outsource it!

Bob will do it, very cheap, very quick.

Works for IT in the banks and telecoms companies.

Oh wait.....

[Moscow Mule]

I've never been asked. How do they know you live abroad?

Me either. You sure you're not going down the foreigners lane Mich?

[TimberWolf]

Interestingly the Daily Mail top rated reader comments are somewhat leftish.
New law to ban strike militants: As Olympic chaos looms, Osborne calls for action to stop minority of hardliners holding Britain to ransom | Mail Online

[petergriffin]

It surprises me. Each time I visit the UK, with my British passport, I´m asked by passport control 'how long do you intend to stay´, and occasionally ´are you coming here to work´. My first instinct is to respond ´none of your business´ seeing as I am a British citizen and have the right to live and work in the UK. Are they just pretending to do something useful by making things slow and difficult for people who are allowed to be in the UK?

Playing the devil's advocate, even if you're British but you live abroad, EU regulations demand that you register to the local police station or council if you intend to stay for longer that 60 days. This is not implemented in Britain but let's say you were French and lived in UK you'd be asked this question if you went back to France. I've seen it many times.

[AtW]

Get a diplomatic passport and you won't be asked any stupid questions