On the picket line

Submitted by Jack on 15 July, 2008 - 11:28.

Because i am the best at class struggle in libcommunity, tomorrow morning at 5am i am picketing out the (GMB member) refuse workers. Shall i dress smart like i'm from the 50s, or take advantage of a day with no work a dress like a poor?

15 July, 2008 - 11:56

three-piece with pocket watch and bowler hat.

15 July, 2008 - 12:06
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three-piece with pocket watch and bowler hat.

and a bow tie and a cane.

15 July, 2008 - 12:10

See, if i wasn't going to the bin depot i probably would (3 piece suit, anyway). But i reckon i'd look a nob in my suit, exhorting bin men not to cross the picket line.

15 July, 2008 - 12:23

You going to the Hollingdean depot? Have you got the number for the shop steward down there? It was on my old phone before it died but BB might have it (or the Aufheben lot?).. give him a ring..

Oh, and if dressing like a poor means you're going crusty again then no, don't do it Jack.. I'm not sure the Brighton proletariat is ready for the dreadlock-mohawke..

15 July, 2008 - 12:28

hangabout chaps, are we talking 'your suit' as in the non-descript comfy grey thing we wear to office jobs or 'your suit' as in the natty, tailored three piece one would wear at ones gentlemans club or maybe at a soul night?

I'm so confused, i own several of both kinds, but don't wear *any* suit to work, but I will be on strike tommorrow and the day after.

It is essential we don't either show up the proletariat's sartorial shortcomings but concordantly do not GET shown up by overdoing the dressing-down... The balance must be brokered.

Battlescarred? barracuda/harrington, sta-prest and flat cap or pinstripes, waistcoat and bowler?

15 July, 2008 - 12:29

in b4 social insertion lolz

15 July, 2008 - 12:33
Ed wrote:
You going to the Hollingdean depot? Have you got the number for the shop steward down there? It was on my old phone before it died but BB might have it (or the Aufheben lot?).. give him a ring..

Oh, and if dressing like a poor means you're going crusty again then no, don't do it Jack.. I'm not sure the Brighton proletariat is ready for the dreadlock-mohawke..

I have the unison stewards number, and there will be a picket line, so it'll be fine.

tbh, if any proletariat is ready for that haircut, then it's brighton. I'm just gonna year a hoodie, at that time it'll be too fucking cold for anything else really.

15 July, 2008 - 12:35

there's a unison meeting starting upstaird but i'm going 2 stay here cos libcom is more interesting and there's biscuits.

also, not in unison.

15 July, 2008 - 12:37
Tacks wrote:
also, not in unison.

Scab!!!

[/stupid yank]

15 July, 2008 - 12:38

Liberty and solidarity leads the way with practical involvement in workers struggle.

15 July, 2008 - 12:46

My mum found a picture of my grandad with a buncha friends, all dressed really smartly like a buncha frank sinatra looking muhfukkas, a couple smoking fat pipes.

"Oh were you at a wedding?"
"No that's the picket line."

it's ALL about wearing a suit. suits are for weddings, funerals and strikes. get on it.

15 July, 2008 - 12:48
Jack wrote:
I'm just gonna wear a hoodie, at that time it'll be too fucking cold for anything else really.

Now that does sound like brighton right enough.

15 July, 2008 - 12:52

Literally, just a hoodie.

15 July, 2008 - 12:53
Jack wrote:
Liberty and solidarity leads the way with practical involvement in workers struggle.

that was the poorest swipe yet, congrats grin

15 July, 2008 - 12:58


Dress like this.

15 July, 2008 - 13:03
Jack wrote:
Literally, just a hoodie.

yeah that was the joke comrade, faaack grin

15 July, 2008 - 13:05

Tacks is a double-scab.

15 July, 2008 - 13:06

It's Liberty and Solidarity Jack, duh roll eyes

16 July, 2008 - 00:23

As Bakunin may have said ''Socialism without liberty is tyranny and liberty without socialism is privilige and injustice, ......unless there are biscuits''

16 July, 2008 - 15:17

Jack supervising the picketline...

16 July, 2008 - 15:22
thugarchist wrote:
Jack supervising the picketline...

thug supervising Jack supervising the picketline

17 July, 2008 - 13:59
Jack wrote:
Because i am the best at class struggle in libcommunity, tomorrow morning at 5am i am picketing out the (GMB member) refuse workers. Shall i dress smart like i'm from the 50s, or take advantage of a day with no work a dress like a poor?

What happened? As the wife said she'd seen bin lorries out an about? Are the office workers up there still unison?

17 July, 2008 - 15:26

There's a picture of Jack on page 15 of the Argus smile

I think non-Unison binmen worked on both days.

18 July, 2008 - 09:35
Jess wrote:
There's a picture of Jack on page 15 of the Argus smile

I think non-Unison binmen worked on both days.

Do you mean GMB or Unison? So the picket didn't go to well?

18 July, 2008 - 11:03

A few wouldn't cross, (more refused to cross on Thursday) but they mostly went out. sad

18 July, 2008 - 13:38
Jack wrote:
A few wouldn't cross, (more refused to cross on Thursday) but they mostly went out. :(

Good on them that didn't, it'll get them talking, did you get any feedback from either them that did or didn't, apart from two fingers or a thumbs up?

19 July, 2008 - 15:26
Jack wrote:
Because i am the best at class struggle in libcommunity, tomorrow morning at 5am i am picketing out the (GMB member) refuse workers. Shall i dress smart like i'm from the 50s, or take advantage of a day with no work a dress like a poor?

shit i was gonna post this thread. was a good strike though. tacks why not post your experiences in the Organise thread? and battlescarred?