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Sep 2022
3:04pm, 22 Sep 2022
25,751 posts
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TROSaracen
Unions weren't very good for British Leyland. Red Robbo's 500 strikes in a decade at Longbridge made it impossible to effectively manufacture cars at the site. What was the point of doing that?
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Sep 2022
4:16pm, 22 Sep 2022
29,865 posts
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Maclennane
Not everything they do is good, but unions are the reason we have weekends, paid leave etc.
Demonisation of union in the US and here means the power is all with the employer
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Sep 2022
4:27pm, 22 Sep 2022
34,794 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
I had never heard of the Bradford Score.
That was very much the PO and BT's interpretation. If you had a single long black off sick, you had to be ill because you had a note to prove it. If you had a a day here or there you must be swinging the lead. I remember the disciplinary ibter iew really well, the big boss man had a sheet of paper with everything and everywhere I had been. Either way don't be late.
Union's are great BTW we'd all still be down the salt mines without them.
I actually had a stint on a new fangled workers council when one of the companies I worked for were going through huge redundancies. Very eye opening how they followed the letter of the law, yet at the same time had a period of re-org just before implementation of said law so they could get rid of who they wanted.
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Sep 2022
4:41pm, 22 Sep 2022
19,691 posts
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RichHL
Labour relations, where everyone is taking the piss.
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Sep 2022
9:13pm, 22 Sep 2022
65,609 posts
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GlennR
These days workers don't even need to turn up to work, they can log on then sleep in the comfort of their own homes.
I feel seen.
The problem with British unions was that very few of them saw it as part of their job to encourage efficiency and productivity. The consequence was they killed off the industries the workers depended on.
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Sep 2022
10:07pm, 22 Sep 2022
25,297 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
An’ erm, employer known to me puts a lot of store by the Bradford Score. 20 days off sick in a row - four straight weeks - scores 20 and nobody bats an eyelid. Having four single days off within a 52 week period scores 64 and a mandatory interview with your boss and HR.
Trumpton are very keen on BS (in more ways than one  )
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Sep 2022
10:12pm, 22 Sep 2022
25,298 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
Having spent more than 20 years serving Her Majesty (not at Her Pleasure, I hasten to add) and not being allowed a Union, I’ve been in every one I could join since. As others have said, despite their limitations and destructive tendencies, without them we’d all still be running around under dangerous machinery or serving too many hours for little recompense in unhealthy conditions.
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Sep 2022
10:13pm, 22 Sep 2022
25,299 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
I do, however, wish my current lot were a bit more keen.
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Sep 2022
10:50pm, 22 Sep 2022
77,981 posts
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Gobi
Got a bit bolloxtics in here.
Never joined a union ever , in any role and never will.
What is this deathmatch again?
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Sep 2022
10:57pm, 22 Sep 2022
65,612 posts
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GlennR
Whittles
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