Originally posted by CFC
High Flier...Tiramisu...Clarified
Did any of you make it to the Sandown Park meeting?
CFC,
I was flying and unfortunately could not attend the meeting.
However, my previous experience of pre-strike meetings in 1984 and 1997 have not been pleasant. I remember speaking out then and being completely ostracised by the BASSA die hards. Tyres let down, anonymous phone calls and cheap and malicious taunts that you would not expect from colleagues for having an alternative view or difference of opinion.
Sadly, not much has changed and most of our senior colleagues know that I am a-non striker and still give me the cold shoulder. But hey ho, I'm big and ugly enough to take it.
Would I have gone to the meeting if I could, probably not to be honest. I don't like the chanting, and thuggish attitudes and behaviours of many who attend.
I simply do not believe that striking does anyone any favours and this is what the meeting was about.
Sensible, intelligent and adult negotiation is the only way forward in my view and that has not happened.