Who's covering this?

**mucus2** · 18-10-2009, 20:25

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/8313299.stm

Any chance of Trumpton covering you guys?

**Majorpain** · 18-10-2009, 20:28

Employees in roles such as finance and human resources will drive specially-adapted 4x4 vehicles during the strikes.

Fire engines will be kept available for emergencies which threaten life and property.

The fire service said managers would return to front-line duties and provide emergency response cover.

Firefighters want to keep their current pattern of nine-hour day shifts and 15-hour night shifts.

The Fire Brigades Union has proposed 10-hour shifts, but the authority said it was committed to 12-hour shifts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/8306128.stm

I suppose you will just have to hope that no one needs the fire brigade!

**mucus2** · 18-10-2009, 20:34

Originally Posted by Majorpain

Employees in roles such as finance and human resources will drive specially-adapted 4x4 vehicles during the strikes.

Fire engines will be kept available for emergencies which threaten life and property.

The fire service said managers would return to front-line duties and provide emergency response cover.

Firefighters want to keep their current pattern of nine-hour day shifts and 15-hour night shifts.

The Fire Brigades Union has proposed 10-hour shifts, but the authority said it was committed to 12-hour shifts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/8306128.stm

I suppose you will just have to hope that no one needs the fire brigade!

I'm waiting to see the announcement that says members of the Fire brigade are willing to swap duties with HM armed forces in sandy places to ensure cover is kept at it's present levels........

**swampmonster** · 18-10-2009, 20:36

Originally Posted by mucus2

Originally Posted by Majorpain

Employees in roles such as finance and human resources will drive specially-adapted 4x4 vehicles during the strikes.

Fire engines will be kept available for emergencies which threaten life and property.

The fire service said managers would return to front-line duties and provide emergency response cover.

Firefighters want to keep their current pattern of nine-hour day shifts and 15-hour night shifts.

The Fire Brigades Union has proposed 10-hour shifts, but the authority said it was committed to 12-hour shifts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/8306128.stm

I suppose you will just have to hope that no one needs the fire brigade!

I'm waiting to see the announcement that says members of the Fire brigade are willing to swap duties with HM armed forces in sandy places to ensure cover is kept at it's present levels........

:D

**MikeMcc** · 18-10-2009, 20:48

They'll probably ask the TA to do it for free...

**RearWords** · 18-10-2009, 22:23

Can I mention the words "Winter of Discontent". It's shaping up quite nicely.

1. Firefighters
2. Postal Workers
3. Public Sector (probably kicking off just after the general election when the hatchet drops)
4. ?

Am I missing anyone?

**EScotia** · 18-10-2009, 22:30

Originally Posted by RearWords

Can I mention the words "Winter of Discontent". It's shaping up quite nicely.

1. Firefighters
2. Postal Workers
3. Public Sector (probably kicking off just after the general election when the hatchet drops)
4. ?

Am I missing anyone?

The TA

**whitecity** · 18-10-2009, 23:00

Originally Posted by EScotia

Originally Posted by RearWords

Can I mention the words "Winter of Discontent". It's shaping up quite nicely.

1. Firefighters
2. Postal Workers
3. Public Sector (probably kicking off just after the general election when the hatchet drops)
4. ?

Am I missing anyone?

The TA

Are there any left?

**The_Snail** · 18-10-2009, 23:15

Originally Posted by whitecity

Originally Posted by EScotia

Originally Posted by RearWords

Can I mention the words "Winter of Discontent". It's shaping up quite nicely.

1. Firefighters
2. Postal Workers
3. Public Sector (probably kicking off just after the general election when the hatchet drops)
4. ?

Am I missing anyone?

The TA

Are there any left?

Just me.

**responder1** · 18-10-2009, 23:24

Snail must have been looking in one of those fairground mirrors if she thinks that is her,

**Ancient_Mariner** · 19-10-2009, 01:02

Originally Posted by RearWords

Can I mention the words "Winter of Discontent". It's shaping up quite nicely.

1. Firefighters
2. Postal Workers
3. Public Sector (probably kicking off just after the general election when the hatchet drops)
4. ?

Am I missing anyone?

The bin men in Leeds have been out for a month. All we need now is a grave digger's strike with unburied bodies piling up and it'll be deja vu all over again.

Where's Maggie when we need her?

**Trotsky** · 19-10-2009, 15:49

Didn't the bakers go on strike (or was it the lorry drivers) so there wasn't any bread (its along time ago now) and dont we need heavy snow fall as well?

Also seem to remember the ambo's did to.

All in all its like being 10 again, I am really going to enjoy this winter, still got my sledge somewhere!

trotsky

**johnboyzzz** · 19-10-2009, 15:53

All we need now is the power workers to come out and back to candles 3 nights a week

**Ancient_Mariner** · 19-10-2009, 16:20

Originally Posted by Trotsky

Didn't the bakers go on strike (or was it the lorry drivers) so there wasn't any bread (its along time ago now) and dont we need heavy snow fall as well?

Yep. Massive queues outside the Co-Op whenever a bread delivery was rumoured. I know a bloke whose family were getting food parcels from friends in East Germany in 1979. As a result, he spent the 80s urinating through the letter box of the local Labour club on the way home from the pub of an evening. No CCTV in those days. He's now a leading member of the Tory party whose secret remains safe with me - for the moment.

Originally Posted by Trotsky

Also seem to remember the ambo's did to.

I think it was the hospital janitors. Ambulances had to stop at the hospital gates so the duty shop steward could check if the patient in the back was sick enough to cross his picket line.

Much additional outrage ensued when some of the striking b@stards shut off the heating in several hospitals then picketed the boiler houses to make sure nobody turned it back on again.

Originally Posted by Trotsky

All in all its like being 10 again, I am really going to enjoy this winter, still got my sledge somewhere!

Don't do it man! You're not 10 any more. Fall off the sledge and bash the old prostate and you'll spend six months with strangers sticking their fingers up your arrse!

Originally Posted by johnboyzzz

All we need now is the power workers to come out and back to candles 3 nights a week

We were posh so we had oil lamps in our council flat - much more of a fire hazard than candles.

Anyway, if the government keeps trying to replace decommissioned coal and nuclear plants with fecking windmills, the power workers won't need to strike to cause blackouts.

**jarrod248** · 19-10-2009, 16:23

Originally Posted by Ancient_Mariner

Originally Posted by RearWords

Can I mention the words "Winter of Discontent". It's shaping up quite nicely.

1. Firefighters
2. Postal Workers
3. Public Sector (probably kicking off just after the general election when the hatchet drops)
4. ?

Am I missing anyone?

The bin men in Leeds have been out for a month. All we need now is a grave digger's strike with unburied bodies piling up and it'll be deja vu all over again.

Where's Maggie when we need her?

We know they'll cave in and just give them what they want in the end. Got to keep things sweet for the election.