tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733583.post422029861152005438..comments2024-03-04T08:34:20.376+00:00Comments on John's Labour blog: National Express & the pension fund risk of it killing American children?John Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14269161145575667147noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733583.post-56152324748874890032013-04-10T18:15:41.053+01:002013-04-10T18:15:41.053+01:00Hi anon
Because I had no doubt they were telling ...Hi anon<br /><br />Because I had no doubt they were telling the truth and that I am aware that National Express has been prosecuted many times by American authorities for breaches of Labour Law and safety.<br /><br />Teamsters are one of the biggest trade unions in the states. They can afford to bring over a bus or two (not sure if they did - we have yellow schools buses over here as well).<br /><br />So if you unions (militant or otherwise) find out their employers are putting lives at risk they should say nothing?<br /><br />We own National Express not the managers who are highly paid to run it.<br /><br />It was in a film you saw – so it must be true? How on earth can you base anything you say on a fictional Hollywood film?<br /><br />The BP disaster was a British disaster. The CEO and most of the Board were British and it is now coming out in law suits that there was a rotten safety culture at BP from top to bottom. Wish the BP unions had been more militant and it may have never happened.<br /><br />US unions and pension funds have been at the front of environmental concerns. According to your logic they just haven't been "militant" enough. <br /><br />John Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14269161145575667147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7733583.post-15131240318627237292013-04-10T13:29:27.090+01:002013-04-10T13:29:27.090+01:00How do you know if any of these facts are true?. I...How do you know if any of these facts are true?. If they are poorly paid, how can they afford to ship American school buses to the UK?. What about the environmental cost of shipping a great big lump of a bus to the UK?<br /><br />Generally, militant unions have no respect the companies their work for, especially if they start accusing their employers of putting people's life at risk. <br /><br />I would feel offended, if I ran a company and this is what the staff said.<br /><br />This is why so many US and European companies shipped off production to China and Taiwan. Even the likes of Apple, did n't want the aggravation of dealing with American and European unions.<br /><br />The Teamsters have a reputation as a militant union. I know this, because they showed they behavior in a Hollywood movie (movie about a PR political campaigner).<br /><br />When the tragic BP disaster happened. I felt a sense of outrage, at the behavior of American citizen, many of who were personally blaming British people for the tragedy, as if each one of us was in some way connected to BP. Never mind that BP in the US was staffed by American workers.<br /><br />Perhaps, if the American stopped their obsession with gas guzzling, the likes of BP, would not need to look for oil in ever more riskier places. <br /><br />American have double standards. I wonder if these American unions, are doing anything about the oil pollutions of Niger. What about the tragedy at Bhopal - how many years has it been?.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com