Support the Strike! Break the Strike!
Guido hears that the lowly paid hacks at Guardian Online have received letters outlining what their individual salary will be if the pay offer is accepted. The NUJ says: "It is highly regrettable that management decided to bypass the chapel and send individual letters offering cash which until now has not been forthcoming during the pay round. We have not seen a copy of the letter and cannot comment on its contents."
Clearly the Guardian's bosses are determined to break any strike by going around the union. Guido has offered to round up a crack team of bloggers for Georgina Henry to scab in the event of a strike. Successful bloggers like Tim Worstall, Devil's Kitchen, Dizzy, who knows maybe some of the boys at Samizdata might help if Georgina asks nicely. These are all proven writers who would bring a different perspective and a high traffic following. Given how much traffic share Comment is Free gets in comparison to say Iain Dale and Guido, it will probably give them a boost. Of course we would need to be on the same daily rate as Alan Rusbridger...
Clearly the Guardian's bosses are determined to break any strike by going around the union. Guido has offered to round up a crack team of bloggers for Georgina Henry to scab in the event of a strike. Successful bloggers like Tim Worstall, Devil's Kitchen, Dizzy, who knows maybe some of the boys at Samizdata might help if Georgina asks nicely. These are all proven writers who would bring a different perspective and a high traffic following. Given how much traffic share Comment is Free gets in comparison to say Iain Dale and Guido, it will probably give them a boost. Of course we would need to be on the same daily rate as Alan Rusbridger...
39 comments:
I'm surprised that the hacks didn't automatically forward the corres to the FOJ, this is a dangerous crack in the socialist way forward.
Shame on the Grauniad for not being socialist enough to pay a decent wage.
I think many Guardian readers would benefit from my common sense view of the world , a good dose of reality and real northern values.
A better looking ,sighted ,low taxing no nonsense version of David Blunkett.
And if it all goes tits up it will be everybody elses fault.
2 grand a week and a hand shandy from Poly Toynbee and im yours Mr Rusbridger.
I recommend that they consider off-shoring. For example, in exchange for quality and original postings I'd be quite happy to invoice them from a US Virgin Islands company for my work. Whilst my rates are likely to be high compared to their lowly paid hacks, the true cost would be less as there would be no office overhead, no employer's NI and no pension liabilities or other benefits for them to pay.
2 grand a week and a hand shandy from Poly Toynbee
I'll do it for the 2 grand and the freedom to piss on her typewriter.
I'd do it for the hand shandy. That's because I'm shallow and have political ambition.
Guardian on strike - phew, the revolution comes at last.
Count me in as Brothel Corr. I will, however, need some big expenses. Maybe up there with the top ten MPs - typically all Labour. By the way Jacqui Smith (Chief Whip)has agreed to assist me.
You don't read me!
with the exception of this and the above comment of course. :)
I would help if asked...they probably would get lots of response to whatever I write that is for sure.
I'm already offshore, and I'm a communist already. I will be dropping them a line.
Guido, why don't you get your hands on a copy of that letter and publish it? Insecure journalists would probably melt your servers trying to calculate where they fall in the pecking order.
Hope Polly et al decide to join common cause and go on strike too.
Let Red on Red battle commence.
you fucking scab!
is the money any good?
for the record, I don't require a hand shandy from Poly Toynbee
Georgina!
that's a posh name for a socialist.
It's great to see women doing well in the world, has she got big tits?
My local fish & chip shop uses the Guardian to wrap up the food, The guy there says when they do the weekly public service job issue its cheaper than buying ordinary paper....
A use at last for the paper.....
I*'m sure these postings will be fallen upon by one of the humourless types at the Grauniad, as an example of sexism in blogs.
Can I just say that it's meant to wind you up, so by rising to it, you're just taking the bait?
I thank you.
May I just add that, ungentlemanly thought thought it is, whatever the pay rates on offer acceptance is more likely if it does not include a hand shandy from Polly or anyone else?
Pretty Polly
or Pretty Awful
dizzy said...
for the record, I don't require a hand shandy from Poly Toynbee
Nor do I , all I want is to see the look on her face as she has to do it as I splash my dirty water all over her.
there's is this,of course:
http://www.guardianlies.com/Sect...%202/ page2.html
(Now that I know you can)I may start a second blog that deals with momentum stocks and links to/lays out (momentum)strategies for trading futures.The only proviso would be once you've made more than you need,you give some to charity.Secondly you read my BBC Bias Blog that I honestly believe reflects what took/takes place.
Could anything be sweeter than crossing a picket line on the Farringdon Road?
Isn't The Telegraph going out now as well, on much the same grounds? Now there would be a much nicer paper to work for although I'm sure nobody would want sexual favours from Will Lewis ...
I'd write for free just so I could listen to the scanners style head popping eminating from the peoples republic of Islington.
Croydonian said...
Could anything be sweeter than crossing a picket line on the Farringdon Road?
Winning tonights £75 million lottery and then being kept as a sex slave by Naomi Campbell in a dungeon made of pure cocaine?
Thats just my sugestion maybe somebody can think of something else.
I doubt they have an opening for a knuckle dragging little englander, but I promise Polly her virtue would be safe if they were to offer me work.
What is the taxable value of a hand shandy from Polly Toynbee? I foresee payroll compliance issues.
"What is the taxable value of a hand shandy from Polly Toynbee? I foresee payroll compliance issues."
Don't worry... you need to earn more than £8500pa before taxable benefits kick in.
The taxable value of a hand shandy would depend upon the yield, also whether one can offset it against a similar (ahem) investment that proved disappointing.
WN @ 2.27. Not sure that Toynbee rates as a MILF, does she? So maybe a fiver, including a tip.
Would "pollywantsacrackertoynbee" cross a metaphorical picket line if the on-line chaps are on strike?
As for a "handy-shandy" from the Wicked Witch of the West, I shudder, not in anticipation, but in horror.
peter said: "Winning tonights £75 million lottery and then being kept as a sex slave by Naomi Campbell in a dungeon made of pure cocaine?
Thats just my sugestion maybe somebody can think of something else.
May I respectfully suggest Winning tonight's £75 million lottery and then being kept as a sex slave by Naomi Campbell in a dungeon made of pure cocaine and a nice cup of tea...
May I respectfully suggest Winning tonight's £75 million lottery and then being kept as a sex slave by Naomi Campbell in a dungeon made of pure cocaine and a nice cup of tea...and a pony.
Previous link didn't work so:
www.guardianlies.com
I hadn' heard of this before but deserves wider attention IMO.
Marvel,
MILF stands for Mom I'd Like to [get to know more intimately].
May I state here and now that I have absolutely no desire to know Ms Toynbee, intimately or otherwise. Thus by logical deduction she ain't no MILF (in my book anyway).
RM
ps ... a pony! Whatever happened to a nice conversation and a game of charades, the strip version? Methinks Mr Worstall's been sniffing the scandium again.
TRM - Yup, I knew that. Decided MILAHSF was a bit of a handful, all things considered. I expect she'll be perturbed at all the sniggering the next time she is at the Brown Lubyanka.
Hang on: if Polly Toynbee gives you a handjob and you give her a pearl necklace, surely that counts as payment and there are tax implications...
More likely to find yourself in court as living off immoral earnings... Although, if paying that Polly "what a fucking silly bitch" Toynbee £140,000 isn't immoral, I don't know what is...
DK
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