Do you belong to a Trades Union?

[Bry Nylon]

And if so, which one?

Who are the Brothers and Sisters on NSC?

For the record - me, no.



Oh, and for the purposes of this thread Students Unions don't count.

 

[Gwylan]

Yes, NUJ

 

[Ned]

Yes, Unite, formerly Amicus, formerly AEEU

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I'm not allowed to, it's against the LAW

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Have been asked many a time to join, but always refused.

That's when they get a bit nasty and make idle threats.

 

[ali jenkins]

I used to, then left my job, now the future of where I work is up in the air, Im considering joining again.

 

[SpidersLegs]

Yes. The glorious Bob Crowe led RMT!

 

[defrocked priest]

I was but now a manager so not.

 

[Martinf]

Yes. Unison.

 

[Juan Albion]

Not at the moment. There has been an attempt over here to get the clergy into a union. If we ever vote in favour, which I think is unlikely, we would become members of the Canadian Auto Workers union.

Here it is either closed shop or nothing.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

RMT.

 

[itszamora]

I'm not, but I may well become a member of BECTU if/when I get made permanent staff where I currently work. At the moment, on a fixed-term contract, threatening to strike probably isn't the wisest idea.

 

[Spicy]

Yes PCS.

 

[Grendel]

Used to be in the CWU but haven't been a member for a couple of years now.

 

[eric8989]

Yes LTU

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Yes , GMB - 3 years and previously a member of the CWU (was UCW) - 22+ years.

 

[Norman Potting]

Unison, formerly Amicus. Not entirely sure why as I am the sole employee of my organisation and belong to another professional body that I suspect would better protect my interests. Probabaly just never get round to cancelling the DD.

 

[KNC]

ASLEF, albeit a retired member

 

[Cian]

Used to be in the CWU but haven't been a member for a couple of years now.

Same as. Not sure it'd quite cover what I do now anyway.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I owe my career as a manager in local government to the fact that I had been a trade union activist - convenor of a stewards' committee for the East Sussex branch of NALGO.

My then boss, the County Engineer (who hated the unions, incidentally), promoted me to the position of service manager on the grounds that he wanted someone in the job who would take no shit from contractors. His thinking (or at least this is what he told me) was that if I could stand up to the contractors the way I had stood up to the management in the County Planning Department, he'd be very happy.

I took the job offer, but stuck with my trade union activities as well - eventually ending up as leader of the staff side (representing managers across ESCC) in the negotiations that we had with our employers. One high spot of that period was when the County Personnel Officer got sacked, because councillors (the employers) realised that she was being completely unreasonable in the way she conducted the employers' side of the negotiations over a restructuring of managers' employment contracts.

Another high spot was a party at NALGO headquarters when John Prescott and I got pissed together, over vast quantities of free beer. But that was before he became Deputy Prime Minister.