alchresearch Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 they have libraries in liverpool???? Video libraries! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindfieldz Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 No, you should thank your employer. My employer has to include these things by law, but I'm just asking is it Labour and the unions that brought about these laws for us all even though most of us are not members of a union? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xenia Posted May 11, 2012 Author Share Posted May 11, 2012 My employer has to include these things by law, but I'm just asking is it Labour and the unions that brought about these laws for us all even though most of us are not members of a union? I think you are right, The Minimum Wage and the Working Time Directive are the result of European legislation. By empowering workers through this legislation the need for unions has really ended. They struggle on desperately trying to justify thier existence but increasingly unsuccessfully. They have become dinosaurs, they just dont know the comet has impacted, YET. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 My employer has to include these things by law, but I'm just asking is it Labour and the unions that brought about these laws for us all even though most of us are not members of a union? You should thank the government then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickiethecat Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 Public sector unions are so greedy these days it makes the rest of us hate them, like the London bus drivers union demanding a premium payment for working over the Olympics because they will be taking so many more passengers. Forgive me if I am wrong, but buses are limited to how many passengers they can carry, so they will not be carrying any more passengers in any case. money ... grabbing .... ####### I suppose in hindsight, "Hands off our gold-plated pensions" was never going to be a slogan to get the public on their side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 I think you are right, The Minimum Wage and the Working Time Directive are the result of European legislation. By empowering workers through this legislation the need for unions has really ended. They struggle on desperately trying to justify thier existence but increasingly unsuccessfully. They have become dinosaurs, they just dont know the comet has impacted, YET. The National Minimum wage was brought in by Labour. It was a flagship policy of the 1997 election campaign. It was vehemently opposed by both the Tories and Lib Dems at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 I suppose in hindsight, "Hands off our gold-plated pensions" was never going to be a slogan to get the public on their side. Lord Hutton himself said that it was a myth that public sector pensions were gold plated. Or do you know better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splodgeyAl Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 I think you are right, The Minimum Wage and the Working Time Directive are the result of European legislation. By empowering workers through this legislation the need for unions has really ended. They struggle on desperately trying to justify thier existence but increasingly unsuccessfully. They have become dinosaurs, they just dont know the comet has impacted, YET. Tell that to the ex-Visteon workers who are still struggling to get Ford to stand by their word. Luckily, they and their union are succeeding, so the rest of us in Europe still have contracts of employment that are worth slightly more than toilet paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickiethecat Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 The National Minimum wage was brought in by Labour. It was a flagship policy of the 1997 election campaign. It was vehemently opposed by both the Tories and Lib Dems at the time. And thanks to the minimum wage, thousands of jobs have been outsourced to India and the Far East, putting thousands of British workers on the dole. A minimum wage is pointless unless every other country has one as well. What a great success that policy was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splodgeyAl Posted May 11, 2012 Share Posted May 11, 2012 And thanks to the minimum wage, thousands of jobs have been outsourced to India and the Far East, putting thousands of British workers on the dole. A minimum wage is pointless unless every other country has one as well. What a great success that policy was! The biggest problem with the minimum wage is that many employers mis-read it as maximum. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-10-07/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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