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Re: Neil supports Lambeth College UCU

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Andie wrote:Those getting 35 days, is that including public holidays? Here in Melbourne & probably most of Australia, we get 20 days annual leave plus public holidays, which where I live gives an extra 10 days. I wouldn't mind 35 days lol :)

Why don't you organise with your colleagues to get more holiday?
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Why don't we just all take 365 days holiday a year?
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james23_uk wrote:Why don't we just all take 365 days holiday a year?
Nah, I want 365 and a quarter - that's only fair. Strike!
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james23_uk wrote:Why don't we just all take 365 days holiday a year?
Nah, I want 365 and a quarter - that's only fair. Strike!
You can have that in a Leap Year!
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raggatwin wrote:
Andie wrote:Those getting 35 days, is that including public holidays? Here in Melbourne & probably most of Australia, we get 20 days annual leave plus public holidays, which where I live gives an extra 10 days. I wouldn't mind 35 days lol :)

Why don't you organise with your colleagues to get more holiday?
Fair point & if I thought there was a hope in hell, I would!

Back in my UK days I actually was a union rep. I worked for the Open University at Milton Keynes, our union was NALGO.
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Andie wrote:
raggatwin wrote:
Andie wrote:Those getting 35 days, is that including public holidays? Here in Melbourne & probably most of Australia, we get 20 days annual leave plus public holidays, which where I live gives an extra 10 days. I wouldn't mind 35 days lol :)

Why don't you organise with your colleagues to get more holiday?
Fair point & if I thought there was a hope in hell, I would!

Back in my UK days I actually was a union rep. I worked for the Open University at Milton Keynes, our union was NALGO.
Everthing is impossible until it's done, we used to send kids up chimneys :)
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I agree, but it was the colleagues I was referring to. Total apathy!
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raggatwin wrote:
Everthing is impossible until it's done, we used to send kids up chimneys :)
Yeah, and now we have to use those damn brushes on long poles. How we all long for the good old days...
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Andie wrote:I agree, but it was the colleagues I was referring to. Total apathy!
Get them interested, outline what's in it for them, present it as "common sense'....
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Get them interested, outline what's in it for them, present it as "common sense'....
Are you a Communist? Genuine question.
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There are many shades of political opinion on the left of which communism is one. If wanting rights for ALL workers makes me a communist in your eyes then I might be one.
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Oh dear....
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