Strike by border staff called off

[joebloggs]

A planned strike by Home Office staff including immigration officers in a row over jobs and pay has been called off after progress in peace talks.


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[Terpe]

Well I for one am happy about that, for all sorts of reasons.
Not that I agreed with most of what the government had to say about the strike action, nor that I agreed with the strike itself.

But more of the way in which the government wanted to present a case that strike action is not a hard earned right.

[Dedworth]

Serwotka is a rabble rouser - crumbled due to the fear of sackings/legal action. There is plenty of room for cuts in the UKBA , I'd start with large numbers of the inept management grades

[RickyR]

I am supporter of unions, and think that people should fight for what they deserve, because the fat cats always TAKE what they want.
British Citizens have a right to strike, and a right to demand better conditions.

[Dedworth]

I am supporter of unions, and think that people should fight for what they deserve, because the fat cats always TAKE what they want.
British Citizen have a right to strike, and a right to demand better conditions.

Well only 20% of his UKBA membership voted with just over half those ie 1 in 10 in favour of this wholly unjustified strike which was timed to humiliate the country at the start of the Olympics. Do you class Serwotka as a Fat Cat Ricky ? I do with the £115000 he trousered last year :)

These inefficient, overpaid and gold plated pensioned public servants need to face up and accept the cold economic reality that has confronted private sector employees for years.

[andy222]

I am supporter of unions, and think that people should fight for what they deserve, because the fat cats always TAKE what they want.
British Citizen have a right to strike, and a right to demand better conditions. Maybe these Lying toerags in power have given them false promises thats why the strike has been called off. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Dedworth]

When elected to be Chief Class Warrior & Fat Cat Union Baron in 2000 Serwotka pledged to only accept the equivalent of an average civil servant's wage. Further evidence that his members are overpaid :D

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/07/24/union-boss-mark-serwotka-hits-out-at-fat-cat-claims-over-86-000-salary-91466-29103753/

[Arthur Little]

action. There is plenty of room for cuts in the UKBA , I'd start with large numbers of the inept management grades

And I'd CONTINUE by axing :xxmixed-smiley-017: staff whose ineptitude is FURTHER compounded by an inability to deal with each visa application FAIRLY and EXPEDITIOUSLY on its individual merits ... failing to:ReadIt: properly (as seems to've been happening all too frequently, of late!) through sheer damned incompetence and an APPARENT overall shortsightedness! :grosyeux:

[Arthur Little]

failing to :ReadIt: properly (as seems to've been happening all too frequently, of late!)

:angry: ... bigmarco's case being a prime example. :yeahthat:!

[Arthur Little]

Maybe these Lying toerags in power have given them false promises thats why the strike has been called off. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

:anerikke: ... WOULDN'T surprise me one iota! :NoNo:

[Dedworth]

And I'd CONTINUE by axing :xxmixed-smiley-017: staff whose ineptitude is FURTHER compounded by an inability to deal with each visa application FAIRLY and EXPEDITIOUSLY on its individual merits ... failing to:ReadIt: properly (as seems to've been happening all too frequently, of late!) through sheer damned incompetence and an APPARENT overall shortsightedness! :grosyeux:

A good point Arthur - these incompetent creeps are living the life of Riley in the Far East at our expense

[grahamw48]

The other 80% realised that they'd better shut their traps because they were lucky to have a job at all at the moment. :)

[Dedworth]

The other 80% realised that they'd better shut their traps because they were lucky to have a job at all at the moment. :)

Never a truer word spoken :xxgrinning--00xx3:

I pine for the days of former prolific nonsense poster IainBusby on a thread like this - he'd be laying the blame 25 years ago firmly at the feet of Margaret Thatcher or if he'd been on the scotch the Slave Trade would be responsible

[grahamw48]

Well as you know, if I don't work I get paid zero.

In fact it costs me money.

Commission only, no union. Don't produce, don't eat. :)