AntiDistinctlyMinty wrote:
The problem is not with working together. Our problem is that we're with the wrong union. Prospect is a public service union. Our management is now well versed in private sector management techniques - where did the Red Baron come from after all.
We (the operational staff at least) need to recognise that we need a more aggressive union, which can recognise the power available to us if we could stand together and decide to kick some management butt.
It would not make an ounce of difference what "Union" we belonged to, the problem would still be there because the Branch is me, you and our colleagues. We are the people who dictate the policy and it does not matter if that is with afflilation to Prospect, TGWU, UNISON etc, that will remain the same.
Our problem is that we as a group have been selling ourselves short since the CAA days, taking a bung here and a bung there as our T & C's are slowly eroded. Do you really think our European colleagues would have sold off something like Home to Duty for the price of a DFS sofa? This is what management perceive as the weakness.
The simple fact is, to you and anyone else that does not like what is going on, get off your backside, get involved in YOUR UNION, and convince your colleagues that your way is the right way. I have.