Christ its like entering Wayne’s world having a conversation with Billy Whiz here.
Right clearly you don't understand a bloody word which clearly means that I don't know what I am talking about.
Therefore it will have to be brought to a level you understand.
Do you lick the piss off of the nettles before or after you have shagged the sheep?
Now I was quite clear about scumbag agencies, thieving bar steward insurance companies and second hand car sales gangsters but that does not mean that there are not scrupulous and fair agencies, decent insurance companies and even car sales firms and rental outfits who do a good deal.
The task of a union within the industry in relation to these issues is to get the deal that benefits the members, you only have to have got a car from the Taxi Centre to know the truth behind what I am saying in relation to these type of issues and who is talking utter b**ll*cks as far as the trinket trade unionism is concerned.
I call it trinket trade unionism but things are slightly different in our trade. I got a Skoda £3000 cheaper a few years ago and if you use it for three years that means the GMB membership and the deals done by Terry have saved £20 a week. That is before the years free union membership, AA membership for a year and so on and so forth. That is like having a very significant wage rise if you worked in a normal job on the cards.
Then there is the slightly more serious stuff which is about representation and it is true that while there are those like you working to split and divide the industry representation is difficult (you currently have senior reps having to run round doing baby grievances and disciplinarians because there are not enough trained stewards that will change over time as your attempts to stop the union growing falter.
Despite these difficulties we are still representing on a collective and individual basis on serious dismissal cases and on collective campaigns like Driver Safety.
As you will know there is a good deal of work being undertaken in the southern part of the country on individual cases involving taxi drivers outside of London and we would like to pay tribute to those brothers who are undertaking the individual case work and who have been involved in the campaigning work with their own local councils and the work some of them have done for the taxi lads who have joined in another area are not yet organised and until they get a trained up steward are in a fairly difficult situation.
A new group of members might have some difficulty sometimes because they may have small localised issues and because they haven’t yet got a trained steward and their officer is engaged on the more serious dismissal cases. Thanks to all of those who have mucked in helped out.
But that is what being in the union is all about young pretender helping each other and creating unity, not claiming to represent something you don't, splitting the trade by constantly running down one section in favour of another
I'm not surprised you don't want a conversation with me but will you do me the great honour of answering a couple of question
1/ what’s it like getting sussed out
2/ what’s it like to run away
3/ Are Carlisle still in the Cup
Two doners and shish please kebab holders and clean your WC out it smells like a karsi |