Yay!!! ... Velvet's back in town!   

 

Who's this plum you speak of... is he some kind of politican?

So's this one.

 

 

Welcome back Velvet Now , can you explain the thread please  

The 'plum' is the union rep from the Grangemouth Petrochemical Plant, which almost closed with the loss of 800+ jobs, thanks to the poor leadership (imo) of said plum.

Oh I see ....thanks Yogi  

Thanks Yogi  is he a bit of an Arthur Scargill or something? 

Said plum resigned yesterday 

 Did he Skylark?....well thats a start...

 

 

Just been catching up with this one! A major issue was that as a union rep he had been campaigning for the Labour Party in works time.
Blimey! There but for the grace of God!

Aye.

 

It's a sad day when biffer Eric Joyce puts the boot in.

 

Bunch of Machiavellian tossers.

I know! Same here! And for the Greenham Common protesters.  Next thing will be it is illegal to be part of a trade union. 

We're not all stuck in..

 

 

Surely?

No, I'm not stuck in the 70s Donks.  And I'll take your lollipop and stick it somewhere uncomfortable if you don't behave.   I'm still entitled to have the beliefs I had during my journey through my working life. 

I agree  

 

It's a good read though prospective candidate for Falkirk through to Ineos  

Depends on which paper you read Joe. I fully support unions, but the day has gone in Scotland whereby numpties like this can hold Grangemouth to ransom. Thankfully it has stayed open, it would have been a very sad day for Scotland had it closed. Plus the town itself would be barren . Yes the rights of the workers have to have their say, but those days of the working class heroes have gone in Scotland. Labour has no mandate in Scotland, i dont think they will again for a long time.Times have changed and they unfortunately havent changed with the views of the Scottish people.  The plum was removed by excuses, it is a more a complicated issue than the one you say. Sorry, he "resigned". This person showed no insight, leadership, nor intelligence, but was willing destroy a whole town,  plus more issues for Scotland, on the Petrochemical world stage.so to speak
The end 

Of course in my day we had professional managers and pretty well trained union reps. I'm proud to say that in my days (30 + years as a union rep) we sorted out most issues and retained our contracts.
Whilst I remain an outsider to this particular dispute I would analyse it thusly.....
"Twatty multinational attempts to erode workers contracts."
The rest is a mixture of obfuscation and pisspoor union reps and management. If I may say so.