Ulster Workers Strike 2024

[johnnycool]

Dup meeting later today


its probably all pantomine

Would not surprise that they vote to come back in but then immediately take credit for getting the pay deals all across the line for the public sector, mind you Shinners will all probably also be looking a pat on the back as well.

There is obviously the reality of paying for it all so in a years time when our rates bill go up and and we are paying for prescriptions etc DUP / Sinn Fein will stand shoulder to shoulder and point the finger at Westminster as it will be all their fault.

CHH shook the money tree to free up more money before Christmas to allow Wee Jeffrey to sell this as a win and he failed to do so, but maybe now he's realising the WF/Irish Sea border is here to stay and the lesser of the two evils for Unionism is the return of Stormont...

There will be a split either way in the DUP so happy days.

[Pub Bore]

If the DUP don't go back soon I think Stormont is finished.

Very little of the promised money is actually "new".  It's a con job by the Tories.

[imtommygunn]

If stormont doesn't go back then this place has failed and it's as simple as that. I don't know how they don't see that.

Everything is a con job by the tories.

[Pub Bore]

English papers reporting that part of the "deal" is the renaming of the Green Lane as the "UK Internal Lane"  Is this what the DUP were holding out for?  It's gone beyond a joke.

[Armagh18]

English papers reporting that part of the "deal" is the renaming of the Green Lane as the "UK Internal Lane"  Is this what the DUP were holding out for?  It's gone beyond a joke.

would you be surprised?

[Rossfan]

Or the "Orange Lane"

[bennydorano]

Hopefully it's passed at the DUP gathering or you'd have to say that probably is the end of Stormont and this place doesn't do vacuums very well.

The strike yesterday has probably given the DUP a bit of political cover and blindsided the Jim Allisters and Jamie Brysons of the world to get the Never gang mobilised in time.

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[trailer]

If they don't go back where does unionism go from here? Boycotting the Assembly is not a viable long term position. They need it more than Nationalists. However, I am well aware that Unionism has a canny knack of not picking the best option for Unionism.

[maddog]

Will there be a puff of white smoke when the decision is made?

[Eire90]

jamie Bryson, an influential loyalist activist in Northern Ireland who campaigns against the Irish Sea border, said: "You can call it the King Billy Red, White and Blue lane if you want and the Loyal Ulster agreement, it matters not. It's about the substance. Stop gaslighting unionists."

[johnnycool]

If they don't go back where does unionism go from here? Boycotting the Assembly is not a viable long term position. They need it more than Nationalists. However, I am well aware that Unionism has a canny knack of not picking the best option for Unionism.

There's plenty of clips doing the rounds of how poor the DUP have been strategically since Brexit was first muted, they really were the dog chasing after a car but didn't know what to do when it caught up with the car...

They find themselves in another pickle entirely of their own making caused largely by them looking over their shoulder at Jim Allister and the die hard loons within their own party who don't want a taig about the place.
It's looking like ELP will be the proposed Deputy first minister although even that won't be straight forward for wee Jeffrey as there's some MLA's not wanting her their...

Popcorn time and the wee lad in Donaghadee will be tweeting like billyho in the next while.

[trailer]

If they don't go back where does unionism go from here? Boycotting the Assembly is not a viable long term position. They need it more than Nationalists. However, I am well aware that Unionism has a canny knack of not picking the best option for Unionism.

There's plenty of clips doing the rounds of how poor the DUP have been strategically since Brexit was first muted, they really were the dog chasing after a car but didn't know what to do when it caught up with the car...

They find themselves in another pickle entirely of their own making caused largely by them looking over their shoulder at Jim Allister and the die hard loons within their own party who don't want a taig about the place.
It's looking like ELP will be the proposed Deputy first minister although even that won't be straight forward for wee Jeffrey as there's some MLA's not wanting her their...

Popcorn time and the wee lad in Donaghadee will be tweeting like billyho in the next while.

ELP as DFM is an affront to Democracy. It is one thing being co-opted in as an MLA but to be crowned DFM is frankly scandalous. We should be having by-elections.

[Rossfan]

Agreement reached on Public sector pay.
10.25% increases next 2 years.









In the 26 of course.

[Duine Inteacht Eile]

Be interesting to know how many of those striking today are DUP voters and how many will vote for the DUP again.

The union trumps everything. The Unions anger is aimed squarely at CHH.
I think the unions need to tread carefully. This strike is pointless. Everyone agrees they need fair pay inc the UKG. So what is the point of the strike?

3 weeks down the line, I think it is fair to say it had some significance.

[lurganblue]

Bus and train strikes continuing at the end of the month https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-68356986

"Paul Givan said the current public sector budget was not enough to make a pay offer, according to GMB."

Junior doctors now planning a strike for the start of March... "Mr Swann said "frustration should not spill into industrial action that cannot achieve anything of substance"."