I am a shift worker - and I only get 4 weeks annual leave! And shift
loadings are there to compensate you for anti-social working hours - so why
do you need to be compensated for them when you are on holidays? You don't
have anti-social hours when on holidays?
> >And the money they were on! For the job they did? It was pathetic!
>
>Don't believe all you read.
I don't - I read a pay slip of a friend who is a wharfie (he also believed
they were overpaid and underworked).
>>Why should the union have a veto over who is employed? Such an issue is
>one
>>for management, not the union, yet the MUA had the right to say "Yes,
>you
>>can employ that person" or "No, you cannot employ him". Also, why
>should the
>>employer have to foot the bill for every new employee to attend a
>half-day
>>union orientation course?
>
>PTU delegates start with a 3 day course, paid for by the employer. Then
>there are more advanced courses. It's to teach them about industrial
>issues and to learn negotiating etc.
This orientation was not for new delegates - it was for EVERY new employee
with Patrick - if I was going to work there as a payroll clerk, telephonist,
etc., I would have to go on an MUA orientation course, paid for by the
employer - that is WRONG!
>> The MUA are nothing more than gangsters, and needed to be brought into
>line!
>reith and corrigan are the gangsters. They should be hauled before the
>courts for their illegal actions.
So we are onto legalities here, are we? So will the PTU allow the Patrick's
train to run? Or will they impose an ILLEGAL secondary boycott?
Regards
David "The Doctor" Proctor
daproc@bigfoot.com