Joining a union

[tony k]

Hi peeps Been looking round at joining a union,never knew the was so many
also the price of them aswell,was loolong at one called urtu.com,as I'm a lorry driver seems like the one suited to my job,but thought I would ask you guys first,see if any of you are in one

[Alex J]

i hate unions, only good if you want to go on strike, witch solves nothing IMO.

[wwmnw]

I'm a member of usdaw and they've helped me got my job back in 2007 for unfair dismissal and I'm currently suspended on full pay so for "gross misconduct" (aka being sick at work but they're accusing me of being drunk because they saw me hungover 6 hours before my shift) so I'm using them again, I only pay about £5 odd pence a month and I'm glad to do so.

[Jack]

£11 a month puts me in PCS - they're generally pretty useless, but I've never had to use them as yet. My sister has though, and they were good with her.

[pete17]

im in unison and they have brilliant in the times ive needed them , even got us all at work around 5k back pay when they changed our contracts

[thedjse]

Not in any keep getting offered to join Unison but i work for the council fat lot of good they did when my pay went down and 1000 people took redundancy

[tony k]

Thanks for the replies guys so what's a good one to go with then as there are loads around

[raymond]

Im in a union and can honestly say they are a waste of time most of the time.

Although they did help me when I needed family friendly hours and my work refuse point plank

Union inn work gave in happy days

[Pistol Pete]

IMO they are a waste of time. Caused us quite abit of agro at work. So much so some de-recognition of the union is underway!

[mowgli]

1. do you feel oppressed?
2. do you feel underpaid?
3. do you feel overworked?
4. do you already have a trade union at your place of work?
5. who do you work for??? large national type or small type of company???
6. do you have an overwhelming desire for a large proportion of your weekly subs to go directly to the labour party, you know, the people who got this country into the right old mess that it is in, and they still want all freight to go on railways so the rail unions money keeps coming in, & they put thru tons of crap legislation that makes the life of a lorry driver worse than ever it was before..like driver cpc, minimum wage, european working hours directives, london charging, the fuel price escalator etc...

if you still don't think you can go & see your boss to sort out any problems that you have, and need some union rep to do it for you, then try the transport & general workers union (now called UNITE). it googles.