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There can be no doubt that there are those with a vested self interest in ensuring maximum disruption is caused to the development of any genuine union organisation.
A penny on their profits is a penny off of our pay and a penny off of their profits is a penny on our pay.
Things might have changed since that sort of saying was first pointed out when the general unions were first being built towards the end of the Victorian era.
It isn't thousands under the same factory roof nowadays and our industry has always been different in that a penny on their rents is a penny off of our takings.
All that being said the principle is the same so it comes as no surprise to me that a fleet operator’s outfit wants to screw up the chances of drivers getting organised into the GMB professional drivers branch. Heaven forbid that we start wanting value for money for our rents and them getting off of their useless fat arses and getting us work.
Good god if we could start organising ourselves and getting effective representation organised the licensing authorities might have to get off of their backsides and doing their jobs properly as well.
The second hand car salesmen and car rental rip offs not to mention the spiv's who steal our money on a weekly basis in the insurance companies, they will all shiite breeze blocks over the thought of us being properly organised. Could you imagine all of us in the union willing to listen to the advice of the national committee in relation to the best firms to use? Christ they would be falling over themselves to cut prices offer a better deal and Christ help them if they didn't represent one of the GMB's members properly if they were involved in an accident.
So you see as well as all the benefits that already exist (cheaper cars from the Taxi Centre, tax experts, the sick scheme etc, it’s all on the drivers website) just think how much better it could get if everyone started joining up, if stewards started coming forward for training etc.
If a workplace was organised with everyone in the union and a trained steward on each shift to deal with the day to day cases and the branch secretary and officers to provide back up on the big stuff (dismissals/tribunals etc) could you imagine how much better that would be for those drivers. Winning one case is sometimes enough to change managements entire approach to everyone and everything and that can only be a good thing.
Good for the drivers that is and not for the scumbag fleet operators or proprietors or given their correct name agencies. Good for those who do the work but not for the licensing authorities and the burocratic degenerates who get their wages off of the backs of the drivers. The insurance spiv's and second hand car dealers would get a rude awakening as the solicitors letters landed on their mats and they would think twice before ever selling us crap again.
So we all know who the real gangsters are out there living off of the backs of the drivers. They are the ones with a vested self interest in seeing that the union doesn't build which is why they set up bogus organisations that do not even represent all of the agencies in their part of the country yet they purport to represent the entire industry. They come on this site hiding behind their pseudonyms trying to stop the drivers getting organised into a real organisation and abusing those who are working hard and struggling to build the union.
Who are you gutless I've told you all who I am and I am quite prepared to have a debate with any GMB members on the issues that bonny prince right Charlie has raised.
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