Sydenham Town Forum

Eagle what are you talking about. The pension scheme is fine so why privatise it lol Google the times rich list for richest 1000 people, it's not hard. As for the toff Etonian Cameron and his privileged and pampered clique attacking working cconditions, welfare, the NHS, education, pensions and all ...

Annie I'd put it the other way round. I think you can't afford not to be left wing. Eagle you are a classic. Not a peep about 415 billion going to the richest 1000 people and all the scrounging tax evasion that goes with it but you have a dig at public sector pensions in local government. Two facts ...

Agree on both accounts

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Even more reason to fight in my view. The money is there. There is no recession for the rich, they are wealthier than ever. The RMT show what you can do and are still getting half decent pay rises. Italy were far better, I can't really complain. Germany will be better again. [ Post made via Mobile D...

England are playing crap. As I said I support every group of workers who fight for better pay. If street cleaners, catering workers or whoever else good on them. It's simply not true to say the bosses don't end up paying. Every single gain workers have had came through fighting for it. As said what ...

Annie I can't see why it can't work like that. Workers can force companies to give more of their profits to wages. And at the end of the day to stop profiteering you can nationalise the bus companies. The alternative is to let bosses and companies walk all over us and accept low wages, bad pensions ...

There are loads of very low paid workers in local government. But I wish all workers the best in fighting for a better wage. It's like the nonsense that the media and government come out with that because many private sector workers have rubbish pension schemes public sector workers should get their...

A one off payment to London drivers as far as I know. Pretty sure that is the case. I'm in UNISON and local government and wish our union would take some action. Our wage rises have been 2009 1%, 2010 0%, 2011 0%, 2012 0%. With inflation as it has been that's the equivalent of a 15% pay cut over the...

I agree about having a decent basic wage and am also against performance related pay. UNITE has a separate dispute with the bus companies around the fact that they keep cutting wages despite huge profits. That might well lead to strike action as well and the usual suspects in the media will condemn ...

Lol. As the workers voted overwhelmingly to go on strike you can't get away with talking about parasitic union bosses, you would have to apply that the the vast majority of London bus drivers. But strangely enough you don't talk about the parasitic Etonian clique around Cameron, the parasitic bosses...

Annie this isn't about the technicalities of exactly what a bonus is. Bus drivers will be under even more pressure during the Olympics, and their day to day job is already very stressful (something the Etonian toffs who run the government would never know about as they never use buses). This is an a...

Bus drivers were never paid well, and since privatisation have had their pay cut further. The bus companies have had huge profits and refused to give any of this to the staff in terms of wage increases. If the companies do this, what other option do the workers have? They can either be walked all ov...

Also you mention Balls (who I have no time for), but miss out Cameron and his Etonian millionaire chums with duck houses. [ Post made via Mobile Device ] http://sydenham.org.uk/mobile.png [ Post made via Mobile Device ] http://sydenham.org.uk/mobile.png [ Post made via Mobile Device ] http://sydenha...

Eagle if we follow your logic we would never have got anything. The NHS, education for all, minimum wage, getting rid of child labour in the UK, the list could go on and on. The people who are blackmailing us are the rich who say they have to pay low taxes otherwise they will leave the country. This...

Hopefully they were the three companies that took undemocratic legal action to stop the strike. Otherwise they were scabs.

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I guess cladding or not is a matter of taste. Personally I think the current design is awful, it looks like a featureless prison block, worse than even the minimal effort they have made in buildings in Milton Keynes. The original artists impression wasn't brick work so why the change? There is a sma...

Antic have told me they are still in negotiations so fingers crossed. Anyone who can should contact them to say we want an Antic pub on Sydenham. Any update on the Greyhound? Also in the artists impression the flats were clad in white. Will this still happen? Might take the edge of it looking like a...

I got this from Antic pubs:

No I am afraid we are not quite ready to announce the new Sydenham venue yet, but don't worry, you will have a lovely new pub shortly.

I will add you to the mailing list and let you know as soon as I am given
the go ahead.

What is going on with this pub, will it just remain boarded up? It's an eye sore in the middle of the high street. Even what it was before is better than this. Also given Lewisham Council will spend millions on consultants, can't Bullock and his cronies find a bit of money to do up shop fronts in hi...

I loved those flower beds when I lived next to Mayow Park (am on the other side of Sydenham now so don't go there). To be honest I'm all for people getting involved but a lot of these voluntary schemes just seem like a cover for cuts. Flower beds and annuals do require more effort and money, but the...