A Sign Of Things To Come?

[naomi24]

//Unite, Labour's biggest trade union backer, has refused to endorse the party's general election manifesto, saying it does not go far enough on protecting workers' rights and jobs in the oil and gas industry.//

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c722zkj9ly8o

 

And after listening to Mr Starmer the other day there's me thinking he has a cure for all industrial ills.   It seems his pupper masters are not quite as convinced.

[Gromit]

Are you embarrased that the Conservatives have accepted £2.5m from dodgy Russians? If Labour are compromised by taking union donations, surely the Tories are also compromised ?

[johnny.5]

  Didn't Keir Starmer  praise Margaret Thatcher for effecting “meaningful change”  in Britain 

and not too long ago either

[New Judge]

"People (workers or not) having rights is not the UK way of doing things."

What rights that are provided elsewhere in similar countries are denied to people (workers or not) in the UK then?

"Don’t even think of withdrawing your labour and going on strike."

Apart from workers such as he police and the military I don't think any other professions are currenly prevented from striking. The government has plans to expand that prevention to a further half dozen work areas but unfortunately that will probably no now be enacted.

Personally I believe all workers should be entitled to withdraw their labour (though I think I'd make exceptions for emergency workers). I also think, in the spirit of fairness, any business owner should be able to summarily dismiss them for doing so.

[237SJ]

Your last sentence and coming from you, doesn't surprise me.

[Old_Geezer]

As long as the then ex-emplyeescan protest outside and refer to interviewees as scabs etc..

[dave50]

Labour hate the gas and oil industry.  Idiots.

[New Judge]

"No one wants a repeat of the misery when tens of thousands of workers were thrown out of work in the transition away from coal.

The rest of the world are doing it,..."

Not quite, they're not.

China currenly operates 1,155 coal fired power plants providing 1,136 Gw. They have a further 332 plants either in pre-construction or construction which will provide an additional    645Gw. For comparison, the UK's total peak electricity demand is around 35Gw (which in the main involves little or no production from coal). 

China consumed more than 3.5 billion tons of coal last year - more than the rest of the world put together. This planned increase of more than 50% in their installed coal-fired electricity capacity  illustrates that it will be a very long time before "the rest of the world are doing it". And when they have plans to increase their coal fired capacity by almost 20 times the UK's total demand, it also illustrates the futility of the UK impoverishing its people and crippling its economy in its relentless pursuit of the ludicrous "net zero".

[THECORBYLOON]

YNNAFYMMI, 

a report in November 2022 by Skills Development Scotland shows the top three employment fields in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire were,

Human Health and Social Work 42,700 (15.3%) 

Professional, Scientific and Technical 34,900 (12.5%) 

Wholesale and Retail Trade 29,300 (10.5%)

Those three are expected to remain in that order for 2025 and 2030.

https://rb.gy/p90c76

[ynnafymmi]

Thanks again for your input,TCL.By the way,who will you be voting for down in Corby,the English National Party?

[Peter Pedant]

oh dear - I dont think I had better contribute anything to this thread - you know the usual bright and sunny one-liner...( although I already have)

[New Judge]

"Your last sentence and coming from you, doesn't surprise me."

Well, let's have a think. Supposing you ran a small business. Let's say an independent mini supermarket with around 20 employees. Despite your best efforts to keep them content, they decide to go on strike. So your store (possibly your only source of income) is closed.

Your pay and conditions are reasonable, it's just that your current employees want more than the business can afford.You know that you can easily recruit 20 more people who will be more than willing to take the jobs at the curren pay.

So what should you do?:

You have a store full of stock, some of which is probably deteriorating;you have customers who want to use your store but can't; if you lose them during this disoute they may not return; your own personal financial state is becoming parlous.

Your current staff obvioulsy are not prepared to work for you at your current pay rate, but other people are. 

Do you allow your store, its stock, your customers and your own financial situation to suffer? Or do you tell your staff that they either return to work forthwith or they will be dismissed?

[THECORBYLOON]

"By the way,who will you be voting for down in Corby,the English National Party?"

I've just checked and there is no English National Party candidate standing in any constituency.