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I live in greenwich ??. But what has walking underneath the river Thames got to do with lunch breaks unless that's what people do on There 20 min break?????

Eggy that's what I tell my fellow workers the firm I work for are quite good with breaks in fact very flexi they say as long as the work is done what's required .. Unfortunately you get a few most who will grizzle at anything & in the end put in danger of jeopardising the thing we Have in place I say to them exactly what you said, guess you can't win sometimes....

Kieth,I don't know we're eggy is pulling these break times from your actual time allowed is 20mins if you work more Than 6hrs goverment directive not unions,if a firm doesn't recognise unions that's what you get like it or lump it... Firms who work with unions tend to get a better deal that's a fact,when the union will discuss a deal which in the First instance will be with the lads & lasses on the shop floor & what they would like,we as union officials Will put this to management...But if management wanted to be mean they can quote goverment rules Which means you have to go with what they say,sometimes you might get something out of them as they like to Be seen to been good,theres some different rules for shift workers but not a lot of difference... What's annoying is working class people slagging unions off,maybe they should ask what they can do for them instead Of been treated like Victorian slaves because that's what's happening thatcher started it.....

Vic fair comment any charity is good but it is up to individual where he or she donates I'm just saying it's just a bit of fun it's not forced

Got it wrong sclerosis

Mercuryg when you do the ice bucket challenge your supposed to give £5 to the motor neuron disease charity,when you do the challenge you can nominate somebody else then it goes on,it's about having a LAUGH & contributing to a good cause....

Yep used to last shop to bed train station

Eggy does the hot pipe still exist with the power station gone thought that would of disappeared ??.

Thatcher was clever on her choice of letting working class people buy there council houses at ridiculous low prices,people Bought them spent money they did not have trying to better themselves,then lost there jobs,then there houses,with nowhere else to Live.she did'nt invest the money into more housing,so it was her way of killing the community we loved,it was also another swipe at The Woking class people she loathed.on the other front it was another way of trying to destroy union workers rights if there was a strike Most people would break it if they were property owners.during the miners strike it would be interesting to see the miners who went Back were home owners on ratio with the ones who weren't ... When lord Gormley took on the Tories I bet there wasn't as many home owners as the later... Mind you Arthur's big ego didn't help..

Meant to say stop the Eastern Europeans coming

A solution !!! Wansbeck council should twin town with Vilnius , Bucharest or Warsaw that would keep the Eastern Europeans coming, & maybe stop people leaving! The thing is not many of them would go up to bedlington ...

Kieth, ukip are doing that know Ba'ath remember people believe what they here & try to convince you it's the truth! Is it out there???

Eggy,the next time I'm back up north you can come with me & swim at Cambois beach that's got to be Cadder than an ice bucket My kids have done it & screamed but I will donate my £5 to the good cause it represents...

Revaluation begins????by a right wing Tory the only ship he'll be joining is the Bismarck & you know what happened to that.....

Seen some photos taken from the air on journal website of Northumberland one of the colliery at the station Don't recognise any of the buildings but it does look amazing....

threegee,if Mick had been around when my granda was killed at the doctor pit,he may have survived..... Instead he became a statistic of the past.

Malcolm, I'm with the community union used to be I.s.t.c but we joined ranks with other unions,to become community, if you go To our website you'll see who we represent,quite a diverse bunch.. On a lighter note you'll be able to see me in the news archive set... L.o.l

Malcolm , Mike McGaheys nephew & his missus is vary good friends with me & Cathy,nothing to do with politics!but he's a nice guy Kind & generous ...

Thatchers dementia must have really hit her then, she probably thought she was getting her picture took with Dennis instead of Good old Gordon,by the way we don't take money off our union members towards the Labour Party fund it is up to them...

You're probably right maybe up the age limit to 25

My missus has got a degree with honours in sociology maybe you should take to her...

Isn't it sad though that are all from mining communities a few miles apart that you couldn't enjoy each other's company without beaten the s*** out of everybody & feeling good where's the unity In that...

Had a few drinks so I'll digest your thoughts & reply tomorrow you must remember Nigel's wife is a German but is that ok cos she married Nigel by the way the only union who is freighting the Tories is the railway union,bob Crowe true Geordie beliefs .......

Next you'll be telling me Moseley & his brown shirts was right

Don't know we're your coming from ukip right wing nazis do think that's right