On 30/11/11 15:54, Eskimo Will wrote:
Perfect weather for a strike and for picket line duty!
Sun, and temperature around 10C.

Great turnout at Exeter City Centre rally with just under 4000 union
folk and families/supporters on the rally with all unions represented
including mine - PROSPECT www.prospect.org.uk . Many met Office
colleagues were with us too fighting for a fair *negotiated* pension
settlement, not a government imposed one. First strike in the Met Office
for over 30 years.

Red Will :-)

The one and only time I was on picket duty, I got a sunburnt nose. I was
Red Graham! ;-)

Whist I was on duty, A Roller crawled past in heavy traffic and a
bloated plutocrat in the back harrumphed, "why don't you go and do some
work?" The heavy traffic was because it was race day at Ascot and he was
off to the races.

A few years after I joined the Office, I realised that the final-salary
pension scheme was iniquitous and a scheme based on average earnings
throughout one's working life would be fairer. I also realised that a
so-called non-contributory scheme was going to serve us ill and should
be replaced by one that where contributions were in the open and not
removed from us during salary comparison exercises. Chickens have
finally come home to roost.

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Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: change boy to man
Teach evolution, not creationism: http://evolutionnotcreationism.org.uk/