People on strike
21 January 2003, 01:10 AM
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these people don't strike because they know others would suffer, they deserve more pay and will probably eventually get it
unlike SOME people I could mention [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
Let's hear it the good guys!!
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21 January 2003, 01:19 AM
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---You seem confused. Time for medication for you i feel--
So cutting out the odd tendon is the same as having to deal with random and 'unexpected' potential carnage and danger on a daily basis, and now the threat of biological warfare.
My mother is a nurse and my father was a road traffic cop and they have nothing but praise for the firemen. You armchair pundits make me laugh.
Think its you who need to start taking the medicine and for all our sake let’s just hope it isn’t the smallpox antidote
So cutting out the odd tendon is the same as having to deal with random and 'unexpected' potential carnage and danger on a daily basis, and now the threat of biological warfare.
My mother is a nurse and my father was a road traffic cop and they have nothing but praise for the firemen. You armchair pundits make me laugh.
Think its you who need to start taking the medicine and for all our sake let’s just hope it isn’t the smallpox antidote
21 January 2003, 02:38 AM
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Taken from an article in sundays people
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PEOPLE INVESTIGATION: £1M FIREMAN
STRIKING fireman Terry Smith has been picketing for extra pay... even though he runs a £1 million business in his spare time.
He has raked in a fortune after he started hiring out bouncers to pubs and clubs.
Now Smith, 35, turns up on the picket lines at his fire station in a £25,000 Audi SPORTS CAR - complete with personalised number plate - while his wife Maxine drives a MERCEDES. They live in _ a new £250,000 four-bedroom LUXURY HOUSE and run their thriving business with the help of staff from POSH OFFICES.
Dad-of-three Smith, an ex-British kickboxing champ, said: "As with all firemen I wanted to supplement my low pay."
But last night his neighbours in Kettering, Northants, were stunned to learn he was a fire-fighter at all. One said: "I thought he was a full-time businessman who was doing all right for himself.
"If he is a fireman he isn't doing much to help the fire- fighters' pay claims driving around in a car like that."
At his fire station in Kettering his colleagues were reluctant to speak out in case it undermined their pay claim.
But one firefighter said: "Our wages are low and most of us have to look at ways to supplement our income.
"Some of us do find the time to get involved in other things, such as window cleaning, but Terry's done better than most."
Smith started up TJ UK Securities about eight years ago after working as a part-time doorman.
It now has an estimated turnover of £500,000 a year and even has offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh. He admitted: "We are doing very well but there is some jealousy among smaller operators.
"Some people have contacted the fire service suggesting I am abusing my position.
"But they just want to cause trouble. This is completely separate and it doesn't interfere with my job as a firefighter."
A spokesman for the Northamptonshire fire service said: "Firefighters can spend their free time as they wish provided it doesn't interfere with their duties."
STRIKING fireman Terry Smith has been picketing for extra pay... even though he runs a £1 million business in his spare time.
He has raked in a fortune after he started hiring out bouncers to pubs and clubs.
Now Smith, 35, turns up on the picket lines at his fire station in a £25,000 Audi SPORTS CAR - complete with personalised number plate - while his wife Maxine drives a MERCEDES. They live in _ a new £250,000 four-bedroom LUXURY HOUSE and run their thriving business with the help of staff from POSH OFFICES.
Dad-of-three Smith, an ex-British kickboxing champ, said: "As with all firemen I wanted to supplement my low pay."
But last night his neighbours in Kettering, Northants, were stunned to learn he was a fire-fighter at all. One said: "I thought he was a full-time businessman who was doing all right for himself.
"If he is a fireman he isn't doing much to help the fire- fighters' pay claims driving around in a car like that."
At his fire station in Kettering his colleagues were reluctant to speak out in case it undermined their pay claim.
But one firefighter said: "Our wages are low and most of us have to look at ways to supplement our income.
"Some of us do find the time to get involved in other things, such as window cleaning, but Terry's done better than most."
Smith started up TJ UK Securities about eight years ago after working as a part-time doorman.
It now has an estimated turnover of £500,000 a year and even has offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh. He admitted: "We are doing very well but there is some jealousy among smaller operators.
"Some people have contacted the fire service suggesting I am abusing my position.
"But they just want to cause trouble. This is completely separate and it doesn't interfere with my job as a firefighter."
A spokesman for the Northamptonshire fire service said: "Firefighters can spend their free time as they wish provided it doesn't interfere with their duties."
21 January 2003, 08:07 AM
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Overstaffed using outdated working practices that keep their workers in part time jobs. Modernise or F off and let the army take on the role for good. The votes for strikes were rigged anyway. Locally the so called secret ballot papers had to be filled out in front of union reps when they should have been sent to private addresses.
21 January 2003, 09:22 AM
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FFS, this is worse than the scooby in a lake 
As this, with alarming speed, deteriorated into a pathetic and immature schoolboy slagging match (on all sides, so don't be sitting there feeling smug anyone) be you a newbie or a seasoned wind up merchant I'm closing the thread.
Guys, have differences of opinion, but please keep it clean and mature.
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As this, with alarming speed, deteriorated into a pathetic and immature schoolboy slagging match (on all sides, so don't be sitting there feeling smug anyone
) be you a newbie or a seasoned wind up merchant I'm closing the thread.Guys, have differences of opinion, but please keep it clean and mature.
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