Britain’s biggest public sector union calls strike “To see if anyone notices”.

[davywavy]

After a strike ballot held yesterday, Britain’s biggest public sector union, Unison, has declared an extensive publicity campaign for the strike “because otherwise you might not realise.” The industrial action, planned for the 30th of November, will be backed by an extensive advertising campaign to ensure that the rest of us are aware it is taking place.

Unison spokesman Will Poole said “Normally if you ring your council during office hours nobody picks up because we’re all too busy on diversity awareness training courses, outside having a fag or signed off for stress. But on November the 30th you won’t get an answer because we’ll all be on strike.”

“In your face, Thatcher”, he added.

Mr Poole then went on to call for blanket media coverage of the event highlighting that, rather than working, Unison members would be spending their day at home watching Loose Women in their underpants, apparently blissfully unaware that they get that sort of coverage in the Sun and Daily Mail all the time anyway.

The union will face an uphill struggle to make its mark as recent surveys have shown that most normal people have to be forced to engage with the public sector at gunpoint.

However, the union was criticised for calling a strike after only 29% of members voted in the ballot, whilst many members of the union were surprised that a strike ballot had been called at all. Mandy Wilcox, a social worker from Retford, said: “I didn’t vote in the ballot because I only found out the other day we weren’t still on strike from the last time. I’ve not been into the office for over a year and nobody's said anything. With successful strike action like that, it's only a matter of time before the Coalition toffs all resign.”

Comments

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

The propellor fell off the Charles de Gaulle whilst on manouevers recently.

Still, it makes a lovely big paperweight.

That said, the Argentians have nothing that can take on a Type 42 so they aren't getting the Falklands before we've got all the oil out. They're like the South Atlantic Scots.

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

If they should ever try again, you can always send in the Royal Navy first: They'll be ever ready, trained as they are for it by the very best of the best, to shout "BANG!" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/757788.stm) at the hypothetical Argentinian menace until it surrenders.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I remember that.

On the plus side, we managed to power a battleship by attaching Lord Nelson's corpse to a turbine.

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

I was at St. Paul's Cathedral only fairly recently, and now you're saying I was taking poorly-lit, tourist-y pictures of an empty coffin? How can I properly gawk at the shrivelled corpses of your national heroes if you keep using all of them for cheap energy?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You were in London and didn't invite me for a drink? I'm actually rather hurt.

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

As ever-ready as I am to imbibe alcohol in good company, my tight schedule sadly intervened. On the plus side, that very schedule means I can now boast scientific observations about what I saw: I've found the British Museum is a festering, seething hive of Finnish tourists. They sort of infiltrate in with the rest of the tourists and then you hear isolated snippets of Finnish all throughout the exhibits. You might want to call Ghostbusters.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Being a member of the British Museum, I get to go in when there are no tourists about.

I even have a card which lets me take a friend.

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

That is brilliant, and I fail to see why everybody who lives within a day's distance from London doesn't also do that.

(In fact, as we were walking out of the place, there was a fellow right behind us who reproachfully turned to his mate and said "Nothing British in there!", which was... strange.)

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Oh, in fact, you've just reminded me that I spotted a 17th century burial monument there that I need to write a journal post about. Might not have remembered otherwise.