Okay. 5.48pm, so only a few minutes late, I can live with that in terms of working my proper hours. If you’re still in the office, what are you up to, you fool? Knock it on the head now – Flee whilst you still can! **With the important caveat that if you’re just reading blogs …
Starting work – 9.12AM ETA in pub next door – 5.42PM It’s Work Your Proper Hours Day!
This weekend, the BNP’s trade union, Solidarity, gains its certificate of independence, and can practice as a union. It’s an interesting move, but I really can’t work out why they are trying to do this. For starters, their members will never get the full benefits of being in a union. Crudely put, there are three …
Welcoming a top new addition to the left-blogohemisphere – Tom, and his labour and capital blog. Tom is a proper hen’s tooth, a good unionist with a real insight into the murky world of big finance (and a very good chap to boot). I’ll be following his new blog very keenly, as corporate governance and …
I’m normally very good at minding my hours, so shall make a point of being down the pub on time this Friday for Work Your Proper Hours Day. I tried this quiz for myself as I am now, and again as I was in my last job, where I did do some silly hours (and …
Oh well, that will be my career up then. Personnel Today magazine and the TUC have been talking to union reps, and found that 92 per cent think that taking on the role of rep has damaged their career prospects. Hmm. Not so sure, and I think you can spin it pretty well to work …
Our left blogohemisphere is getting quite excited about Sen Barack Obama’s race for the Democratic presidential nomination over the pond. It’s like Howard Dean never screamed, hurrah! And there’s quite a lot to get excited about – as this video shows (thanks, parburypolitica!): Top orator, Impeccable community politics CV, all career moves covered by good …
Tragic news from Guatemala this week, as STEPQ dockers’ union leader Pedro Zamora was executed in broad daylight as he picked up his young sons from hospital on Monday. The murder looks to have been committed by rightwing paramilitaries, following threats over his union’s campaign against port privatisation in Puerto Quetzal. STEPQ are trying to …
Hurrah! Good news for the B&B industry in this little corner of Wiltshire, which has recently been freed from under the shadow of discrimination – or did I get the story wrong? Norman Tebbit had the most weaselly quote of the day with: “The concerns which are being expressed this evening are primarily about sodomy …
A quick word of warning to any Blogger-based bloggers looking to switch from the old Blogger service to new Blogger. Don’t do it! It seems more than a little buggy, and I’ve suffered from broken feeds (so I don’t imagine anyone else will be reading this without the feed links from bloggers4labour and tigmoo.co.uk!), as …