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Post by Wheldale on Sept 28, 2012 16:23:09 GMT -5
Whats the most silliest thing a pit has gone on strike for? Wrong type of toilet rolls? No bacon sarnies in the canteen?
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Post by John on Sept 28, 2012 16:49:32 GMT -5
Whats the most silliest thing a pit has gone on strike for? Wrong type of toilet rolls? No bacon sarnies in the canteen?
I nearly caused a mass walk out at Boulby Mine, mind you I was a bit of a communist back then so had been "fingered" to be sent out the pit... ;D |
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Post by John on Sept 28, 2012 16:58:20 GMT -5
TBH, I don't recall walking off the job for trivial things, we came close to a strike at Cotgrave caused by stupid management ordering single decking near the end of manriding one morning. Just meant almost all the fitting and electrical staff would have been docked half an hour. We said to hell with it, might as well make it the full shift... ;D ;D
Management soon changed their attitudes and it NEVER happened again, at least while I was there.
By the time it was sorted to our satisfaction it had cost them over an hour's production, the miners wouldn't cut coal without an electrician or fitter on the faces.... 
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Post by Mick on Sept 28, 2012 17:39:24 GMT -5
No soap in baths, sun out, 5p a shift missing from bonus that cost us a bloody weeks pay then we still went back 5p sort.
I could go on and on that's why Wheldale was called the sunshine pit,even the pit badge had a sun on it.
Mick.
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Post by tygwyn on Jun 8, 2013 20:09:04 GMT -5
We nearly had a stike in the first Smallmine i worked,someone mentioned they had killed the 2 Moths in the top heading,
Fireman went to check the ventilation,
The 2 Moths were still flapping away.
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Post by dazbt on Jun 9, 2013 15:41:27 GMT -5
I've seen one or two beauties and caused one, a two week strike of the entire Anderson Strathclyde Motherwell Works because I worked through their tea break and nearly caused one in York Canyon Mine in New Mexico because as a non-member of their local union I physically worked on a shearer breakdown. One of the strangest I witnessed was in India after two miners were killed in a fall, their bodies recovered but the management wouldn't allow the men to bring them to surface until the production shift had been completed, I went on 'token strike' with the men much to the dismay of the colliery officials.
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