The Arnos Grove GSM sent a circular round the group thanking people for working during the strike. Given that only six did, and well over a hundred didn’t, it would surely have been easier just to thank them personally. Except, of course, management don’t really respect scabs at all, they just use them as propaganda fodder.
In a feat of logic that a contortionist would be proud of, he also stated that it was the RMT reps’ fault that the group was losing 10 posts because they refused to accept rosters that lost “only” seven. This is like having someone break both your legs, then tell you it is your fault for refusing an earlier offer to break just one of them.
And to top it all, he noticed that there was, apparently, an alarmingly high level of sickness during the New Year strike, so is insisting on medical certificates for people sick during today’s/tomorrow’s strike, even if they are within the first seven days of sickness and therefore legally entitled to self-certify.
The thing is: managers like that just make the staff more determined to fight.
