I see the closing ceremony of the Omnishambles games was well attended....nah who am I trying to kid...half empty stadium again.
and they didn't have the sense to move people from the back rows down to the front so that it appeared fuller.
A massive shame.
No, it's a perfect summation of a poor Games, marked above all by incompetent administration on the one hand and spectator indifference and misbehaviour on the other. I wouldn't anticipate the IOC returning to Brazil this century.
Jeremy Corbyn has said he would look to bolster the bargaining powers of trade unions if he wins the leadership vote.
As part of Mr Corbyn's reform plans, he said he would include mandatory collective bargaining in firms with more than 250 employees, the election of staff representatives to executive remuneration committees, and the introduction of "sectoral union bargaining rights".
The devil would be in the detail there. Of the three proposals listed,
What does 'mandatory collective bargaining' mean, and what powers would it involve? If it gives a union close to veto powers on decisions then that's a very different thing from the right to be consulted on changes affecting staff - and the latter would be good practice anyway.
Staff representation on exec remuneration boards would be a good thing (hasn't Theresa May proposed something similar?). Boardroom and exec pay has become silly and has advanced well in excess of returns or average shopfloor pay. Remuneration committees made up all of the same types giving the same rises to each other seem too back-scratchy to me.
What does 'sectoral bargaining rights' mean? This I have the greatest worry about but as with the first - which it seems closely allied to - how meaningful it would be would depend on the specific measures. That said, I'm sceptical of any proposal to create lobbying bodies that create powers that haven't been earned. It's one thing for a union to work on behalf of the workforce of a business; it's another to have collective bargaining impose something on a business that might push that business to the wall, which in edge cases could easily happen.
BBC Archive After the Rio #ClosingCeremony, next stop for the Olympics is Tokyo, which last hosted in 1964, we were there too https://t.co/i9NzUjf1Vs
Seem to remember it as well-organised. Of course there was little colour TV, and Tokyo is 8 hours ahead of us so there wasn’t a lot to watch live. Also think I recall a school acquaintance of mine winning a silver in the sailing. There was a lot else happening in my life in 1964!
That's nothing new, as Chris Mullin had made his preferences clear a while ago. Nonetheless it is a salutary reminder that even Benn's former right hand man from the 1980s recognises that Corbyn is an electoral liability to Labour. The author of "A Very British Coup" supporting the "coup". The catch all term "Blairite" will now have to be applied to the Bennite who the Sun once called "the most hated man in Britain".
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After the Rio #ClosingCeremony, next stop for the Olympics is Tokyo, which last hosted in 1964, we were there too
https://t.co/i9NzUjf1Vs
What does 'mandatory collective bargaining' mean, and what powers would it involve? If it gives a union close to veto powers on decisions then that's a very different thing from the right to be consulted on changes affecting staff - and the latter would be good practice anyway.
Staff representation on exec remuneration boards would be a good thing (hasn't Theresa May proposed something similar?). Boardroom and exec pay has become silly and has advanced well in excess of returns or average shopfloor pay. Remuneration committees made up all of the same types giving the same rises to each other seem too back-scratchy to me.
What does 'sectoral bargaining rights' mean? This I have the greatest worry about but as with the first - which it seems closely allied to - how meaningful it would be would depend on the specific measures. That said, I'm sceptical of any proposal to create lobbying bodies that create powers that haven't been earned. It's one thing for a union to work on behalf of the workforce of a business; it's another to have collective bargaining impose something on a business that might push that business to the wall, which in edge cases could easily happen.
There was a lot else happening in my life in 1964!
She's useless on tv. All umm umm.
Clinton 42 .. Trump 46
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Pennsylvania - CEPEX/CBS8
Clinton 36.5 .. Trump 41.9
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