Party Vibe

@boothy 351263 wrote:

Leeds Refuse Collectors are on their 3rd strike now into 10 days, because of failed talks between the 3 unions Unite/GMB/Unison and Leeds City Council, run by a Tory/Lib Dem coalition.

Basically the Council wants to cut pay by upto £6000 by 2011. The reason for this is “equality” – to create equal pay for men and women.

this is a standard centre right tactic to discourage “politically correct” initiatives by turning them into something negative, claiming a counter argument that it will cost more or using it as a cost saving ploy…

Vestas strike did have another angle, to be fair the Danish boss explained why they wanted to close the factory and it was the normal people of Britain causing those jobs to be lost because they keep fucking complaining about wind turbines as they refuse to put them “in their back yard”

But I had to ride into a massive headwind today from the North sea (so much so that I had to put full throttle on the e-bike otherwise I wasn’t getting anywhere – about 10 miles away from me and josh and damo (just outside Fram) there is a place what would be perfect for wind turbines but all the locals complain…yet they are happy to see Sizewell C and D built :you_crazy

its because the projects for UK wind turbines get so delayed from people exercising their “individual rights” why companies like Vestas have to close down (although I do think the factory should be used for something else like making transformers or bits for plyons)

I lived through the 70s “winter of discontent” and although I was just a small boy then I was aware enough to know “something was going on”, and already interested in technology, particularly broadcasting and telecommunications.

All I remember was that the power went out about 3 times for a couple of hours, and the telly didn’t show any programmes for a few weeks as the TV company technicians were on strike – and sometimes live shows didn’t get put on because the Post Office Telecommunications engineers (who at that point controlled the comms links between TV companies and the Tower) were on strike.

However I did not starve, services such as gas and water stayed on and standard civillian telephone and postal services were no worse than normal in the 1970s..