TOTAL tacking - - - -

[scorpious321]

HOW many of you are backing the strikers over what is going on at the momment in this country ?????

I feel very strongly in what has happend.
Total is basically tacking the - - - - out of the UK work force,
ALL OVER THE UNITED KINDOM PEOPLE ARE LOSING THERE JOBS
We all should be united in this BOYCOT TOTAL give your support stop buying there petrol.
At the momment this country is in deep s h i t and work permits are still being dished out when every one else are still losing there jobs laughable has any GOVERMENT got any common sense


IT a shame we all couldnt unite is this country and surround the houses of parliment and make a peacefull demo because LABOUR does not want to listen to you me or anyone else over common sense whats going on in this country dissrupt one day for them.
We could make this the biggest demo in this country if we all united

who would join in mmmmmmmmmm or are we all couch potatoes and give them your surpport this could be you ???????????????????????????????

[Ethel]

Can't make hear nor tail of this.

What are you referring to? Tacking what?

[scorpious321]

we all have choices where we bye our fuel
easy dnt buy theres ,eg total garage end off

[Ethel]

I still have no idea what you are referring to

[123everton]

I'm a union man through and through.
But all I see here is a lot of heat and very little light, I'd back them if they had a proposal.
They have'nt.
These workers are EU workers, no permits nothing free trade and transfers, unless you suggest we leave the EU (which is a different question) it seems to me the government could ask for an apprenticeship scheme to be put into the contract and this might defer the problem.
The contract was put out to tender and that firm won.

[jno]

feel free to fill up at other garages if you don't mind that their petrol costs more. Do you drive a British car?

[VHG]

I think he means "taking" not "tacking", but like a lot of British people, has no idea how to spell.

Momment ? (it is moment(

Kindom ? (it is kingdom)

Parliment ? (it is Parliament)

Surpport? (it is support)

[Booldawg]

I find it so hilarious that your basic defence against the OP is his his/hers spelling and grammar; maybe this would suggest YOUR lack of intelligence and knowledge on thw subject?

This is especailly to VHG; if you are THAT clever then contribute to wiki NOT AB you dulll bast**d.

[rov1200]

This what happens when all our industries are owned by foreigners. They couldn't give a hoot what happens to this country, only to cream off the profits and send them elsewhere. British jobs for the British are at Tesco or Sainsburys.

[Gourmander]

...or Mr. Khan's corner shop...

[Gromit]

Rather than all this hot air and bluster, people should be asking why a British firm failed to win this contract.

and wild cat strikes are going to make the British workforce even less attractive to employers.

Very dim, the lot of the strikers. If they lies their jobs they have no one but themselves to blame (but like all dimwits, they will blame foreign workers).

[terambulan]

So long as work goes to 'outsiders' I wont buy British!

[1ARMEDBANDIT]

Why only know are they protesting? The Eastern Europeans have been coming over and stealing our jobs for the last couple of years!....I know a lot of AB posters say they are doing jobs the British don`t want but us British are looking for jobs but they are all taken by the imigrants, FACT.
They are doing the jobs because they work for less wages and bosses want cheap labour,FACT.
Us British should have been protesting about the influx of foreign workers from day 1.

[jno]

of course they want cheap labour. This is because the British want cheap goods. People would sooner save tuppence than buy British.

Can any of the posters complaining here swear that they always buy British even if it costs more?

Well?

[stensonlad]

Do other countries listen to eu regulations?
I don't think so!
So lets have a national strike and force this government to do do something!

[TCL-MUMPING]

What if every Briton working abroad in Europe were sacked in retaliation?

[SeaJayPea]

This is a complete nonsense.

Apart from anything else, Total is a French company, operating in a foreign country (the UK) and employing a contractor that is based in a third (Italy). They are perfectly entitled to employ whichever contractor they choose.

Do you think that BP only employs Canadians in its operations there? No of course it doesn't. It uses sub-contactors who are based here, the USA and all over the world.

[fredpuli47]

Just imagine A company in the oil business in Alaska employs a contractor who uses labour from Texas. How many protests and sympathy strikes would that engender?

We are in the EU. The position is the same as in that example . Workers from one state may work in another. End of story.If you don't like it, get us out of the EU, but in the meantime face the reality.