Today I'm Striking

[Seamus OBlimey]

Today I'm Striking



Tomorrow I'll be striking too.

[Joe Hillshoist]

We are with ya brother.

[Seamus OBlimey]

Cheers Joe, I knew we could count on your support.

I know SMiles, it won't stop wars, it's just one small skirmish in the bigger battle.

'I'm waiting for riots in the streets'

[Joe Hillshoist]

Wow Seamus, wars over garbage. Thats a high level of insanity. And instead of recycling and lowering the waste output and composting they flog each others bins and attack garbologists... what a bunch of freaks.

In normally staid Cannock, meanwhile, the Birmingham Post relates that decent, law-abiding family men, unable to cope now the council has switched to fortnightly collections, have been seen stealing into their neighbours' gardens at dead of night and nicking their wheelie bins. "It's like something out of Mad Max," says resident Paul Nicholls. "Every man for himself, scavenging for an extra bin."

Mad Max my arse. Has he ever seen Mad Max?

You mob deserve a 200% wage rise if you have to deal with idiots like that, on top of the idiots on council...

Is there an online petition or anything, if not me and the missus are both with you lot, for what its worth. We might be on the other side of the world but us working people have to stick together.

We know which side we're on.

[Seamus OBlimey]

A quick search found no petitions. Here are the unions involved.. Unison, T&G, and GMB. Rumours are of a week long strike in september or october, I'll keep you posted and you can always comment on the Daily Mail Blogs. They'll have lots to say before then.

"Mad Max", yeah we do tend to exagerate but he'd probably forgotten Trainspotting, and that "waiting for riots" is a laugh a minute (if you're a slow reader), and a fairly accurate account of life on the streets here. It's certainly the most "interesting" job I've ever had. What with the daily goings on and the old-timers tales I could write a book about it. If I could write.

Anyway, only another twenty years before I get my pension.

[annie aronburg]

Today I'm Striking

Tomorrow I'll be striking too.

You'll always be a handsome S.O'B.

[Seamus OBlimey]

Today I'm Striking

Tomorrow I'll be striking too.

You'll always be a handsome S.O'B.

Trust you to get that

[annie aronburg]

You'll always be a handsome S.O'B.

Trust you to get that

My parents spoke Twilight Language around the house, so it was only natural that us kids picked it up.

[Seamus OBlimey]

2.495% X 3

Mr. Brown saving an icon.

Single Status

Or in other words I'll be fired at the end of Feb. unless I sign an agreement to sign an, as yet, unfinished contract. Then I'll be offered re-employment under the terms of the still unfinished contract.

How weird does it get?

[MacCruiskeen]

More power to your stinky-but-muscular elbow, Mr. O'Blimey. Don't let the bastards grind you down.

[Seamus OBlimey]

Ta, Mac..

If only my knees were as strong..

[Joe Hillshoist]

Or in other words I'll be fired at the end of Feb. unless I sign an agreement to sign an, as yet, unfinished contract. Then I'll be offered re-employment under the terms of the still unfinished contract.

Hey Seamus, how is that legal?

[Seamus OBlimey]

I don't know how or why it's legal but the unions are not challenging it on that basis, just appealing individual cases after the fact..

http://www.unison-angus.org.uk/singlestatus.htm

The councils have been very crafty with this, careful as usual to hit one minority while rewarding others, region by region to avoid a national backlash..

Leeds, Western Isles, Wales, Birmingham..

Pure coincidence that in every region it hits the same category of workers? ie those ripe for privatisation.

Though this may provide some brief local respite, I'm still holding out for that letter. Just to frame it.

[Seamus OBlimey]