[Tubby Isaacs]

We’re not “going back to oil and gas”. This is Polanski
bollocks.

[The Weeping Angel]

As James Murray of Business Green points out

[Tubby Isaacs]

The BMA don't come out of this well.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... rs-strikes

Staff at the BMA union are due to go on strike to coincide with the six-day resident doctors’ strike on 7 April. The BMA’s most recent pay offer to its staff of 2.75% is lower than the latest recommendation of 3.5% to resident doctors.

BMA HQ is in London, but presumably nobody there pays expensive housing costs or has student loans and all the other things the BMA talk about as problems for themselves.

Also some friction with the other NHS unions, by the sound of it. I think too there's a broader problem for trade unions with some of this stuff. The workers' rights bill is a significant achievement, and people are broadly in favour of workers rights. But that could change if the people who they see doing are well are people who are doing well anyway, like doctors (even if the pension isn't cash in hand now). Nigel Farage must be laughing his arse off.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I really question whether this is politically feasible. We're spending a lot of your money but you'll thank us from 2035 isn't something politicians anywhere tend to be very good at selling. I suppose the politics are helped by the Tories and Reform chucking out Net Zero though.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Sick pay rule changes to benefit up to 9.6m UK workers, TUC says
Union says new entitlements, part of Employment Rights Act 2025, will help lower-income households

Or, as some of our most prominent trade unionists would probably put it. Bad Starmer punches down.

[davidjay]

And as every Tory/New Tory will put it - Scroungers Charter from the Fabian Marxist.

[Youngian]

Remember those people ten years ago who told the low paid that Bulgarians and Romanians were responsible for their conditions? Turns out they're relaxed about shitty pay rates and rights for the worse off. Who'd have thought it?

[The Weeping Angel]

Sick pay rule changes to benefit up to 9.6m UK workers, TUC says
Union says new entitlements, part of Employment Rights Act 2025, will help lower-income households

Or, as some of our most prominent trade unionists would probably put it. Bad Starmer punches down.

Indeed

[Tubby Isaacs]

Antonia got away without being accused of committing genocide, I see. Maybe there's hope for social media.