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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
I suppose the good thing is, that French Unions are much more powerful that British Unions.
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Unions being powerful isn't necessarily a good thing.. Depends on the Union. While my own Union (Unison) intervened at work when I was downgraded, and got that reversed, there are Unions that are too powerful. Look at TFL. Tube drivers are paid >£50,000 a year for a job that isn't (on the face of it) any harder than shop workers, who are paid a lot less. They also have a unions that are willing to do their best to bring London to a halt when TFL dare to do something that will bring the service on the London Underground up to the level of other tube systems (including, ironically, the french metro).
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French Unions wont be pushed about, Like those in this country. We have stupid prats like Boris, and Cameron running as soon as there is any Union trouble. Then they try to bring out a law prevent Unions going on strike.
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Can you explain why the French Unions should have ANY SAY in what goes on in THIS COUNTRY?
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The other is, we should return to coal.
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Why? Does the evironment meant nothing to you? I'd be a fool to suggest Nuclear doesn't have serious problems, (waste, potential for meltdown), but it's actually relatively clean evironmentally, when you factor it the amount of power generated.
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This would bring several things. Employment to deprived areas of the UK. Cheap coal for the elderly, instead of them being ripped off by energy companies.
Don't forget this country STILL IMPORTS COAL. And then we would have no worries of Power Station producing Electricity
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Cheap? So who is going to pay the tens of billions of pounds required to upgrade the machinery at our coal pits so they can compete safely with the cheap coal provided by other countries. Bear in mind that we have health and safety regulations in place that are considerably more strict than those in place in other countries, and following those recommendations costs money.