Hello everyone and thank you for the welcome. I am going to follow my heart and do what I believe in. And thats to go to work, come what may. Messing up peoples christmas plans because of an imposition is wrong. IMHO wrong fight, wrong time. So is a 12 day strike for that reason ( although I really don't think it will last that long).
I will take all steps I can to protect myself and ring my manager for advice tomorrrow.
Glad I found this forum, where I can speak my mind and not get shouted down ( unlike CF or BASSA). I actually found out its existence from the BASSA website where someone was complaining about it! How ironic is that?
Anyway, will post more when I have something else to say and I really hope that others, like me, are reading this too thinking they are not alone.
Thank you for reading
A slightly less worried AD