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Bluntend said:Premium Bonds again Standards?DT_Xtremez_30:
Am I beginning to get a following?
Standards!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4922616.stm
So when this lot go on strike do we only call up the RN for Fresco?
DT_Xtremez_30:
So when this lot go on strike do we only call up the RN for Fresco?
DT_Xtremez_30:Who? Me? shusssssssssssssh, keep your head down for the next few weeks and you won't be eligable anyway.Who? Me? said:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4922616.stm
So when this lot go on strike do we only call up the RN for Fresco?
Good luck btw and see you in a classroom.......
ps pass my regards to the other escapee
No Army cover for Herts strike?
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No army cover if Herts firefighters go on strike
27 April 2006
EDITORIAL - herts.advertiser@archant.co.uk
FOR the first time ever the Government have said that the armed forces will not be deployed to provide emergency cover if Herts firefighters vote to take strike action.
The unprecedented action would leave a gap in the fire service and could lead to the strike being challenged in the courts, taking away the firefighters' right to protest over cutbacks to the county's service.
The instructions came from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) and the Government on Tuesday and a spokesperson for the ODPM said: "It was a joint decision. We don't think that a modern fire and rescue service should be relying on the armed forces to provide cover. They should not simply be rolled out to cover every single dispute."
They had also come to the decision because using the army takes resources away from defence.
It was thought that up to 90 soldiers would be brought in to man the pumps if firefighters voted to take strike action in a current ballot by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU). The result of the ballot will be announced on Tuesday and the FBU are expecting that its members will vote to take action.
St Albans MP Anne Main said that she was shocked that residents in Herts had been denied help from the army.
She added: "This is the first time ever that the MoD has refused to cover the fire service and this is the first time in history that the Government is going to be on a collision course with the fire brigade unions."
A challenge to the strike could come from Herts Fire Service as employers of those going on strike and this challenge would then be heard in court.
A spokesperson for the Herts branch of the FBU said: "Obviously this creates a problem. But what we would say is come and talk to us and resolve the dispute before it gets to the strike. We don't want to see the community put at risk but we feel strongly about these cuts."
The potential strike action has been prompted by cuts to the service by Herts County Council. Radlett fire station would be shut axing 14 retained firefighters and there would also be more job cuts across the county. The specialist Aerial Ladder Platform based at St Albans would go leaving one at Stevenage and one at Watford.
One St Albans firefighter said: "The infrastructure is not there to support these cuts. They may think that the strike would be an issue of public safety but it is on behalf of public safety that we are striking."
Chief Fire Officer Roy Wilsher said: "If the Fire Brigades Union takes strike action, I will need the support of everyone in Herts to protect lives and property. There will be no back-up, just a very limited number of frontline staff, deployed according to need."
n Do you think that the fire service should go on strike without any back-up from the Army? Visit www.hertsad.co.uk to take part in our online poll and have your say.
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No army cover if Herts firefighters go on strike
27 April 2006
EDITORIAL - herts.advertiser@archant.co.uk
FOR the first time ever the Government have said that the armed forces will not be deployed to provide emergency cover if Herts firefighters vote to take strike action.
The unprecedented action would leave a gap in the fire service and could lead to the strike being challenged in the courts, taking away the firefighters' right to protest over cutbacks to the county's service.
The instructions came from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) and the Government on Tuesday and a spokesperson for the ODPM said: "It was a joint decision. We don't think that a modern fire and rescue service should be relying on the armed forces to provide cover. They should not simply be rolled out to cover every single dispute."
They had also come to the decision because using the army takes resources away from defence.
It was thought that up to 90 soldiers would be brought in to man the pumps if firefighters voted to take strike action in a current ballot by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU). The result of the ballot will be announced on Tuesday and the FBU are expecting that its members will vote to take action.
St Albans MP Anne Main said that she was shocked that residents in Herts had been denied help from the army.
She added: "This is the first time ever that the MoD has refused to cover the fire service and this is the first time in history that the Government is going to be on a collision course with the fire brigade unions."
A challenge to the strike could come from Herts Fire Service as employers of those going on strike and this challenge would then be heard in court.
A spokesperson for the Herts branch of the FBU said: "Obviously this creates a problem. But what we would say is come and talk to us and resolve the dispute before it gets to the strike. We don't want to see the community put at risk but we feel strongly about these cuts."
The potential strike action has been prompted by cuts to the service by Herts County Council. Radlett fire station would be shut axing 14 retained firefighters and there would also be more job cuts across the county. The specialist Aerial Ladder Platform based at St Albans would go leaving one at Stevenage and one at Watford.
One St Albans firefighter said: "The infrastructure is not there to support these cuts. They may think that the strike would be an issue of public safety but it is on behalf of public safety that we are striking."
Chief Fire Officer Roy Wilsher said: "If the Fire Brigades Union takes strike action, I will need the support of everyone in Herts to protect lives and property. There will be no back-up, just a very limited number of frontline staff, deployed according to need."
n Do you think that the fire service should go on strike without any back-up from the Army? Visit www.hertsad.co.uk to take part in our online poll and have your say.
My God!
My God!
So, does this mean that the current bunch of wasters that we call a Govt are finally admittign that us Armed Forces types are over-stretched. Too much going on in other parts of the world, not enought people to cover this and that, so sorry citizens of Herts, you won't have the luxury of 1950s kit manned by people who have better things to do coming to put out your BBQs.
What a fantastic two or three days for British politics; old Charlie Clark admits to an utter fiasco with the release of convicted criminals who should be deported being set free; Patricia Hewitt is almost reduced to tears by nurses (quite rightly in my humble opinion) baying for blood; 2 shags prezza has to admit to havoing had his naughty way with his secretary; and to cap it all, El Presidente Tone BLiar get destroyed during PMQs by Ming.
What with all the other stuff that the press don't seem to want to let go, education in a state of chaos, with kiidy fiddlers allowed free reign (or so itseems) to the 'donate enough dosh get a seat in the lords' this lot are as bad, if not worse than the tories at the 'height' of their sleezy indiscretion.
Will we finally see this shower self implode??
My God!
firestorm said:
So, does this mean that the current bunch of wasters that we call a Govt are finally admittign that us Armed Forces types are over-stretched. Too much going on in other parts of the world, not enought people to cover this and that, so sorry citizens of Herts, you won't have the luxury of 1950s kit manned by people who have better things to do coming to put out your BBQs.
What a fantastic two or three days for British politics; old Charlie Clark admits to an utter fiasco with the release of convicted criminals who should be deported being set free; Patricia Hewitt is almost reduced to tears by nurses (quite rightly in my humble opinion) baying for blood; 2 shags prezza has to admit to havoing had his naughty way with his secretary; and to cap it all, El Presidente Tone BLiar get destroyed during PMQs by Ming.
What with all the other stuff that the press don't seem to want to let go, education in a state of chaos, with kiidy fiddlers allowed free reign (or so itseems) to the 'donate enough dosh get a seat in the lords' this lot are as bad, if not worse than the tories at the 'height' of their sleezy indiscretion.
Will we finally see this shower self implode??
R
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I was on a civvy tiling course recently, as I'm not far from endex. Two of the blerks on the course were firemen who were "Doing the course to earn more dosh during their off shift time, as they get so much of it!"
Nice work if you can get it!
Nice work if you can get it!
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