A quote from Sandra Gidley. yet still waiting for her apology

hulla baloo wrote:
A quote from Sandra Gidley. yet still waiting for her apology

I hope that you and I keep the pressure up. We must never forget her support of those armed criminals.

i won't lose any sleep....even on flat money they'll get more than disabled people get to survive on

"Worried staff say the loss of allowances could cost them as much as £300"
I'll take a £300 cut to take a month off over Christmas, lucky 8astards!

I guess theres no point in having doctors and nurses standing round a dead corpse hoping it will show any life signs huh

Ford (Swaythling) - RIP

Oh well its nearly Christmas suppose we best get Turkey ready. Its warm already but it should be nice and hot by July.

Will they be turning up and producing Transits in protest, as a sort-of reverse strike?

Miles Sway wrote:
"Worried staff say the loss of allowances could cost them as much as £300"
I'll take a £300 cut to take a month off over Christmas, lucky 8astards!

I daresay I will be able to manage on basic pay as will most of the 1100 Ford workers on site - perhaps we will be a bit more careful with our spending.

However there are 100 or so Hamton contractors on site who have just been told they will get £100 for the first week then NOTHING for the following three.

And I wonder how the others will cope.

What about the 'Magna' seat factory at Wide lane who supply us with seats - will they get lay off pay?
What about the drivers and Staff of 'W.E.Dean' who deliver parts to the plant? - parts and components many supplied by small companies throughout the country - what are they going to do?
Or 'Selecta' who run the canteen - they will be laid off as well.
They sell us hundreds of filled Rolls every week - I wonder what little Roll filling company in Southampton will be seeing a dramatic drop in Business just before Xmas.
Of course there must also be a bakery who will be baking thousands of rolls less and an industrial laundry will have 8,000 items less to clean and repair next month - perhaps they will have to let people go too?
Then there are the contractors who run the completed vans down to the Docks and the staff who work there - nothing for them to do for 4 weeks!
And I do hope the little newsagent on the corner where we buy our papers and ciggies from will still be there in January.

What about all these people?
Are they all 'lucky 8astards'too?

Militant Ford Worker wrote:

Miles Sway wrote: "Worried staff say the loss of allowances could cost them as much as £300" I'll take a £300 cut to take a month off over Christmas, lucky 8astards!

I daresay I will be able to manage on basic pay as will most of the 1100 Ford workers on site - perhaps we will be a bit more careful with our spending. However there are 100 or so Hamton contractors on site who have just been told they will get £100 for the first week then NOTHING for the following three. And I wonder how the others will cope. What about the 'Magna' seat factory at Wide lane who supply us with seats - will they get lay off pay? What about the drivers and Staff of 'W.E.Dean' who deliver parts to the plant? - parts and components many supplied by small companies throughout the country - what are they going to do? Or 'Selecta' who run the canteen - they will be laid off as well. They sell us hundreds of filled Rolls every week - I wonder what little Roll filling company in Southampton will be seeing a dramatic drop in Business just before Xmas. Of course there must also be a bakery who will be baking thousands of rolls less and an industrial laundry will have 8,000 items less to clean and repair next month - perhaps they will have to let people go too? Then there are the contractors who run the completed vans down to the Docks and the staff who work there - nothing for them to do for 4 weeks! And I do hope the little newsagent on the corner where we buy our papers and ciggies from will still be there in January. What about all these people? Are they all 'lucky 8astards'too?

Get a life Militant - the story and my response was specific to Ford workers; there are thousands upon thousands of workers facing an uncertain future (me included) and Ford workers shouting about a £300 loss of allowance for a month is frankly laughable.

My comiserations to the contract workers who will lose out, but for the full timers at Fords a month off on basic pay at £11+ per hour isnt half bad in my book! It might show certain people there whats its really like to have to tighten the belt!

Any news on the shake up at the echo?

Your always quick to post other peoples problems, but not your own

Hows the merger going?

Hows the outsourcing to india?

I think they are getting ready to survey the land for development purposes.It wont be long now! Just like Vospers

Miles Sway wrote:
"Worried staff say the loss of allowances could cost them as much as £300" I'll take a £300 cut to take a month off over Christmas, lucky 8astards!

Bar Stewards indeed Mr Sway, and the lazy sods will still take a sicky on Fridays, force of habit.

That's probably what you do at your place of work throw a sicky on a Friday like a lot of lazy 8astards in lots of industry these days. But I can confirm my Husband has not thrown a sicky nor a day off in over 18 years employed at Fords. Perhaps this happen in 1960/1970's but certainly not since if you what to keep a job.

by 2010 expect five million unemployed,depressio
n on the way,just the start.