kettle crisp firm want to prevent workers joining a union

http://www.myspace.com/ralphieloveplusone Well that's calling the kettle black isn't it> See what I did there?

Write to all your Facebook chums and ask them to pass it on. This could be a reasonable way to use Facebook - as the source of popular revolt against the excesses of modern capital. Well, it's a thought.

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What a shame because Kettle crisps are one of the few crisp types not to contain dangerous coronary heart disease, stroke-inducing trans-fats (hydrogenated fats created by boiling oils with hydrogen gas and nickel!)

If I owned a company I would dissuade my employees from joining unions because they tend to be run by the likes of Bob Crowe with his horrid sub-Marxist drivel. So I am afraid I declined the invitation on facebook but please don't take it personally Martin! jude "Cacoethes scribendi" http://www.judesworld.net

"If I owned a company I would dissuade my employees from joining unions because they tend to be run by the likes of Bob Crowe with his horrid sub-Marxist drivel." Bob Crow's a real Marxist but he's hardly representative of mainstream public sector trade unionism in the UK - let alone the situation in the private sector. The tube staff, like the firefighters, have hard left unions because their role in the provision of essential services gives them a lot of economic power and therefore enables them to demand (relatively) high wages. The situation faced by the people who make Kettle chips could hardly be more different. They have no economic power whatsoever. People doing low-skilled work, usually on insecure contracts, can be hired and fired more or less at will in the UK. British private sector unions are, rightly and necessarily, the preserve of moderate social democrats who aim to use collective bargaining to stop poor people - who have absolutely no ability to stand up to corporate giants on an individual basis - getting screwed over, while actually making the process of wage negotiating and ensuring good staff morale much easier for the employer.

Hurrah for the power of Facebook! :) pe ps oid What is "the art of tea"? And what does an "odd courgette" look like?

And for the power of ABC!

Of course! :) pe ps oid What is "the art of tea"? And what does an "odd courgette" look like?

Joined the group, which meant I had to register on Facebook...my children say I am in grave danger of joining the twenty first century at last. Hope the campaign does have some effect.

In that it's already got two articles in the Guardian and I noticed Kettle Crisps advertising on TV in the run-up to the rugby (which must have cost them a fortune) I think that's a pretty good result for a few hundred people joining a group on Facebook!