Disruption -Wednesday 30 November 2011

[Newton]

Whether you agree or not with the strike. It will cause disruption to most people.

How does it effect you?

I live on the Wirral in Merseyside and work in Liverpool. They are closing both Mersey Tunnels and the Ferry Cross the Mersey too!

This means a 40 mile hike through Cheshire just to get to the office. For me and up to 100,000 others who make the daily commute.

I think it will get me better terms on my pension though!

How does it disrupt your daily life personally?

[Two_Sheds]

While it does cause people disruption for one day, let's keep it in perspective.

If snow closed the ferry/bridge, you'd find another way to work but would be unable to blame someone.

If you have to have your kids home for one day, well you'd have to do that if they were sick. Or if you wanted to pull them out of school for a "day off" or a holiday.

Wed is our bin day. If our bin doesn't get collected, it will wait till next time. If we have overflow, we'll put stuff in a public street bin.

Like we said about the Free Day Off for the Royal Wedding - it's not The Blitz, it's just one day

[northepaul]

I work in a school but still have to go to work - even though there's no kids!!

[pigletwillie]

I work in the private sector but will be outside Leicester town centre in support of the strike, my disruption will be that I get to bed a bit later after finishing work.

I am one of the 99%!

[FionaH]

It won't cause me any disruption at all. In fact the roads may be a bit quieter when I drive to work

[veggiechicken]

It won't change my life in the slightest. Since I rarely know what day of the week it is, or watch TV, it will pass me by without so much as a nod.

[Seahorse]

It will have a dreadful impact on my usual routine of sitting around eating biscuits and surfing the net. Instead I will have to go out and get some excercise... by being on a march

[veggiechicken]

Newton, I thought you were striking from choice? So any disruption is of your collective making and is, not therefore disrupting your life. However, the Cheshire countryside will be disrupted by all of these commuters that you mention. I rest my case!

[BUFFS]

Whether you agree or not with the strike. It will cause disruption to most people.

How does it effect you?

I live on the Wirral in Merseyside and work in Liverpool. They are closing both Mersey Tunnels and the Ferry Cross the Mersey too!

This means a 40 mile hike through Cheshire just to get to the office. For me and up to 100,000 others who make the daily commute.

I think it will get me better terms on my pension though!

How does it disrupt your daily life personally?

no matter how much this disrupts the day ,it is this pack of bankers yesmen destroying all that our fathers fought for for years , the announced changes that were made yesterday will take workers rights back to the victorian era,the only safe people?,yes youve guessed it ,chairmen,bankers and the pilfering parasitic polititions...now theres a surprise.....

[HeyWayne]

What strike?

[SlugLobber]

Bin day is Wednesday, but other than that, I plan to work from home anyway that day, so no disruption, really. Our bin is always less than a third full anyway!

[Newton]

Newton, I thought you were striking from choice? So any disruption is of your collective making and is, not therefore disrupting your life. However, the Cheshire countryside will be disrupted by all of these commuters that you mention. I rest my case!

Veggiechicken......I am not striking......I am not part of a collective (other than the allotment sharing collective) and I am not in favour of the unions hijacking the day. It will cause me disruption not to mention considerable additional cost just running my business.......my reference to my pension being improved was mentioned with the slightest hint of irony. I should have been a council employee so I could feel hard done to at my dose of realism!

I hope the day of inaction is called off.......no chance of that though.......

[veggiechicken]

Newton, I apologise! I misinterpreted what you were saying. It was the pension bit that threw me. I do sympathise with anyone who is affected by this day of inaction and does not have the choice of voting for or against it. Unfortunately, those who strike, and put innocent people out as a result. are at risk of losing public support. I will say no more on this controversial topic!!

[Potstubsdustbins]

It will make life great, no parking wardens for a start imagine a street with no jobworths whoopee.

The only downside is that they will probably pay the bin men overtime to collect the rubbish.

Colin

[Two_Sheds]

It is controversial, but not all the facts are being put forward. Sure, everyone is cutting back and getting hit hard (though maybe not Philip Green).

Re the Teachers' Pension Fund: it is in credit. There is enough money in it to pay teachers back the pension that they've been contributing to all their working lives, and far from being "gold plated", the average pension in March 2010 was £10,000.

The Govt are now robbing that pension fund to pay for other stuff. I don't think that's fair.