Thanks Kallis, being its the 1st review was not sure of how things worked. Have been honest and a bit conservative with things as well as for expenditure but will manage regardless.
As for unions, I know they are useless, resigned from mine 3 years ago when they called a 3 day strike (could not manage with a full months salary never mind one with 3 days pay missing)
My place used Unison and they are next to useless. I'm with T&G but haven't needed to utlise their services fortunately.
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I'm with you there about unions, I was a member when I was working and certainly could not afford to loose pay when they went on strike so just used to cross the picket line, after all there was nothing they could do about it
I've always crossed the picket line as I certainly can't afford to lose any pay at all.
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Unison must be universally useless then, GMB not much better (they tend to have Unison at our place for the more "educated" and GMB for the people who actually physically work)
Nepensioner, I have done the same thing by crossing picket lines, its not nice but in times of difficulty the last thing you can do is throw money away.
I'm afraid my family and house come first and I think Unison must be next to useless everywhere.
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I was in PCS who over recent years have shown much anger at the way we were treated but only action was a large number of strikes that had no effect. I loved crossing the picket line as was on early start at 7.30 and the union struggled to get pickets there on time!!!
They've had two strikes at my place since I started and I crossed the picket line on both occasions - the bosses took the cowards way out and booked the days off!
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I've only been in a union once and it was a complete waste of money and I wouldn't do it again. As far as I'm concerned most union bosses are out for what they can get, not what's best for the workers.
Our Unison rep is only out to help management! When we needed help a few years ago keeping one of our workers in a job he was worse than useless and she ended up having to move to a different police force. Most of the office dropped out of the union after that.
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We had a union rep on our team at work, we all had huge targets to achieve and she spent all day in the union office drinking tea and eating biscuits. It was b..... annoying that she was being paid the same as us
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Just to apologise to marksam1 as we seem to have hijacked the thread![:D][:D]
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