Post by rubl on Nov 13, 2016 13:42:50 GMT 7
Nov 13, 2016 12:56:02 GMT 7 @theblethery said:
Do you remember the price of a pint that year where you lived? ...................
Talking of overtime, we had works cats in British Steel Ravenscraig that used to hover around the foreman's office on a Friday afternoon looking for weekend work.
Some of them were under so much financial stress you could see the fear in their faces. A few of the other guys objected to them getting so much, so the union introduced a roster system where the management had to ask the next guy on the list - a fair way of doing it.
But, my god - the fight that caused was unbelievable. That was one of the incidents that opened my eyes to the ( sometimes ) myth of the brotherhood of unionism.
OT was on a list system inside a dept. If no one wanted it, they'd call around the site but given as it was a chemical site and the outside guys may not be familiar with the hazards, it wasn't the preferred route. I'd done 3 on the trot, and a 4th w/end was due. They didn't want to ask me when the others turned it down. Outside help not available, so I volunteered. Many years later I was doing 12 hour days in a shift pattern with 2 others. One was put on nights for a one month shutdown. Then the other broke his arm playing cricket. 21 x 12 hour days without a rest. No of, I was a bad tempered sod at the end. Boss tried to reprimand me, so I bit his head off too
. I learned later that it wasn't legal to have us doing that time with no days off.
