Tamoil Trading

Advantages: A sense of satisfaction
Disadvantages: long hours, thankless

...Ok. Thanks for reading this op. You may already have read my op on Local Government and my op on Environmental Health Officers, well, here is the third op in my trilogy of work related ops. As well as being an EHO, I am also a Trade Union Representative and hold a Branch Officer post within my Local Government Branch of UNISON - the country's largest trade union. There are loads of trade unions, and none would be able to function without trade union reps. These reps (or stewards) are people from the workforce who have been elected by members of the union concerned to represent them locally in front of managers, and to negotiate working conditions etc. I will expand on the etc in a bit. Most people will have heard of trade unions - the one hitting the headlines in the UK a few years ago was the FBU and more recently my... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Make lifelong friends, interesting work, great training
Disadvantages: long hours, no pay

...Hi, Ive been an union member since starting work at Local Government 32 years ago , and heve been an union rep for about ten years now. My trade union is UNISON. UNISON is a member led union where members make the decisions on how the union is run. Each region consists of a Regional committee with members elected from all over that region. It depends on how large your local branch mebership is as to how many representatives you have usually one person per 1,000 members. To become a regional representative you need to be nominated by your Branch and then elected by your Region onto the various committees. There are a number of committees at Regional level and they represent the whole cross section of the members. Theseare called service groups and consist of- Health and Safety, Local government, Health Higher Education... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Sense of satisfaction. Helping others. Good training.
Disadvantages: No pay. Frustrating occasionally.

...shopping in their local ASDA, after handing out leaflets to workers there asking them to join. Everyone has the right to join a union. In that case, I would try to persuade as many other people as possible whom i owrked with to join and we would start up our own branch. If they contacted the union's regional office, they would be able to lend their support. TGWU recently won a battle on behalf of beleaguered JJB Sport staff in Manchester. The principles behind trade unionism are devastatingly simple. On our own, we have no chance, but if we get together we can win better conditions to work in. If any one of our members is disadvantaged, we will stand shoulder to shoulder with them. We can force concessions from even the most intractable management.... Read review

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