A British cream cake company has been accused of a race-hate crime after it refused to halt its production line to mark the death of Poland’s president./facepalm
For the avoidance of doubt, yes. This is a British factory in Britain.
One Polish worker, who did not want to be identified, said: ‘Some people asked if the line could be stopped for two minutes and were told no, but others stopped anyway and were threatened with being disciplined.Unions got involved and then everything went to hell..?
‘There were harsh words exchanged and it caused bad feeling, but since then it’s all got a little out of hand and some of the workers over-reacted, and so did the union guy. They kind of went nuclear.’
Say it ain't so!
The row escalated further when a formal letter of complaint, signed ‘Polish Personnel Representatives’ was posted on the internet by Marcin Bujniewicz, East Midlands Organiser for the Unite union, threatening legal action and accusing the company of perpetrating a ‘hate crime’.I rather think that takes the notion of real hate crimes, spits in its face, kicks it in the shins and then tramples all over the body...
The letter demanded that management provide a reasonable explanation for its refusal to halt production lines, a written apology to all Polish employees at the plant and called for ‘appropriate measures’ to be taken against those responsible.The airport's thataway. As soon as it reopens, anyone who doesn't like the working conditions is free to go back and try their luck in their home country.
Marcin Bujniewicz said: ‘I’ve been told I’m not allowed to speak to you.’ And despite repeated calls, Britain’s biggest union Unite made no comment.I'd like to think that that's because even the usually dim-as-a-sack-of-hammers union leaders realise they might've gone a wee bit too far with this one.
The thing that scares me is that none of this surprises me any more.
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@ Uncle Marvo....DITTO.
ReplyDeleteTell them to fuczk offski.
ReplyDeleteBrian, follower of Deornoth said...
ReplyDeleteTell them to fuczk offski.
Hard not to say "we told you so".
But when WE told them that, you shower declared war on us.
Furor Teutonicus
ReplyDeleteA slight misreading of history there I think. I can't recall any claim by the then German government to justify the 1939 invasion of Poland on the basis that there had been an influx of Poles into the Reich to do the work of Germans who were relaxing on state benefits.
The return of "Polish" land to Germany was a democratic choice of the inhabitants;
ReplyDeleteAs an example;
in the four North East of Westpreussen ("Polish corridor") voting areas, Ro-senberg, Stuhm, Marienwerder, and Marienberg, on 11.7.20, 92,43% voted to be German, with a population of 15,94% Poles.
In Masuren, in the South of Ostpreussen, 97,8% for Germany, with a 12,85% Polish popula-tion.
In Oletzko, also Ostpreussen, 1117 Poles, 406 Masuren, and 9981 mixed,there were only TWO VOTES (!) in favour of being Poland!! The rest were to "return" to Germany.
Ortelsburg, with 63,4 Masuren, the vote for Being a part of Germany was 98,95%!
(Wolfgang Popp. "Wehe den Besiegten". Grabert Verlag 2000. PP 30-31)
Therefore Germany was within it's democratic rights to keep/retake these lands.
NOW who is guilty of "missreading history?.
ReplyDeleteFuror,
ReplyDeleteWere the Czechs German as well?
Furor Teutonicus
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you read other people's comments? I never mentioned the plebiscites in the Polish Corridor.
Giving German - and heavily German-populated - land to Poland was storing up trouble but, you know, Germany lost a war and proceeded to lose the next one and, as a result, lost those lands forever.
Anyway, my reading of history is immaculate: the NSDAP government never once claimed that they were invading Poland because Polish workers were doing the jobs of Germans who were receiving state benefits. If I'm wrong on that point, I'm sure you'll supply the necessary evidence.
English Viking said...
ReplyDeleteFuror,
Were the Czechs German as well?
Those in the Sudetenland, yes.
"The thing that scares me is that none of this surprises me any more."
ReplyDeleteIt's all very depressingly deja vu, isn't it?
Umbongo said...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, my reading of history is immaculate: the NSDAP government never once claimed that they were invading Poland because Polish workers were doing the jobs of Germans who were receiving state benefits.
Mores the pity. They should be so doing now.
Oh, and for such a "history expert" you SHOULD know that, except for pensioners, and war wounded, there were virtualy NO Germans recieving "state benefit" in 1939. They were either in the armed forces, or in camps for the work shy.
(Which was another damn good idea that we could do with today.)