Strikers just want a better life for themselves and their colleagues.
Good on the Bristol ASLEF. Don’t fuck around with unions mate, they like a drink.
Fuck around and find out I guess…. The landlord is a bellend
Hey OP, he could have kept his anti-union views to himself, but he didn’t. The union staff responded in kind. He doesn’t have to put up with them and they won’t give him any of their business. Sounds like a win-win for all involved.
He chose not to do business with the union and the union chose not to do business with him.
I see no issue.
So, the moron says that the rail strikes have affected his business, so to help his business, he turns away business & alienates LOTS of customers?
Fucking brilliant business model.
His business is so much lower on the days when they withdraw their labour that it starts to cause him hardship.
So that means that his business is only viable because of the labour that’s being provided by the public transport workers.
And he wants them to be forced to accept a massive pay cut? What a cunt!
So rail workers are supposed to put up with shit pay and conditions and threats to their livelihoods so this cunt can keep things shipshape at his pub?
Headline should read: Crybully landlord gets what he wanted.
I don’t see the issue. Landlord chooses to reject their business. They tell people. Landlord cries to local newspaper.
Unless the unions form a picket line outside his pub this simply seems to be an absolutely unnecessary self-inflicted injury by the landlord.
Man kicks hornets nest. Man bitches about getting stung.
Quote from landlord in the article: “I don’t particularly have an opinion either way about the rail dispute”
I think you do mate…
Of course a hospitality business owner wants to shit all over strikes, they don’t want their labour force getting any ideas. When you underpay and overwork people for a living you don’t want them seeing others and thinking they might deserve better
What’s going on in here? It’s like some people have been given the words ‘spiteful’ ‘childish’ and ‘bullying’ and been told to use them as much as possible
Hmmm:
“I don’t particularly have an opinion either way about the rail dispute” said the landlord, immaediately after having given several paragraphs-worth of negative opinions about the rail dispute.
I don’t think that critical thinking is one of his string points.
Bizarre in this economy a pub landlord would turn away a big group of paying customers like that.
Several people on this thread (including OP) misleadingly saying that they “went to the council”, implying Bristol City Council. They went to Bristol Trades Union Council. Very different.
What a prat. Is he expecting it to be like the US where Conservatives will go and support him to “own the libs”? The guy has probably just screwed up his business and it’s all self-inflicted.
I’m from Bristol that pub went downhill over a decade ago fuck the owner, he is selling the pub anyway probably doesn’t like bad publicity affecting his sale
…and then as a result of the boycott, he had the temerity to claim he was being “bullied”. Moron.
The business owner has refused to serve them as is his right
The unions have refused to patronise his business as is their right
It’s unclear why you think that’s bullying. Hopefully you’re not a union rep at your current job given you’re unable to fathom why these workers may not want to give their money to the very man who states he didn’t want it
Says he doesn’t have an opinion on the strike but specifically asked if the rail workers striked it is pretty clear which side he stands on
Back when I was a postman I worked at a large sorting office in London. Most of the pubs in the local area knew and welcomed postmen and were richly rewarded for serving them.
But there was one that didn’t and had a notice saying that they didn’t serve postmen.
Now there used to be many characters working in the building at this time and one of them was a postman we called Brainsy. His actual surname was Brains but the name Brainsy suited him because he was a little bit nuts.
Bainsy was about sixty at the time I knew him, a wiry old geezer with a patchy white beard and a glint in his eye that was a warning sign for those that heeded it.
One day he stopped off the pub that didn’t serve postman on his way into work and ordered three pints of lager. The landlord was amused that this guy was going to drink three pints on his own but frankly any landlord that knew his business could see that this was a seasoned drinker.
He poured the third pint, put it down in front of Brainsy and then Brainsy got a thoughtful expression on his face.
“Oh… Oh, you don’t serve postmen, do you?” he said.
Then he unzipped his jacket to show his Royal Mail shirt and walked out.
Brainsy likely is long gone, he’d be older than the hills now and even in his sixties he didn’t back down from a scrap… that’s not quite true he provoked most of the scraps in the first place whether he could win or not. But that little piece of fuckery meant that even when he was being a pain most of the postmen had a soft spot for him.
Love how he gets upset at people pulling the same thing on him he aims at others.
Absolutely fucking *genius* business move in a city as left wing as Bristol.
Why is he complaining? By refusing the booking he’s shown that he doesn’t want the rail worker’s business. He should be happy.
Ah fuck, this is one of my after work pints spots.
Or rather, this *was* one of my after work pints spots.
As a COSS, I’m happy that they have boycotted him. I remember me and my gang going into a restaurant after our shift and we were treated pretty rudely and walked out. Fair play on the lads
Only drank at the Portwall Tavern once. Was your typical small and expensive city centre boozer. Definitely have no desire to go back there – landlord sounds like a bellend.
Has it really come to this? Striking for better pay to protect your own interests is not grounds to bar people from your establishment, and I rightly hope this guy gets pilloried in the court of public opinion.
That’s the craziest mindset emblematic of the type who chunters about Brexit and political correctness gone mad and not being able to say what they want.
Also cowardly anger. Had the bottle to smugly refuse via email but now crying about bullying.
Weird how he claims to not have an opinion on the rail dispute after moaning about it.
>They are getting the wrong end of the stick, and they are using bullying behaviour here. This is a big union bullying a small pub, in saying that. It’s a big sledgehammer to crack a small nut, and I’m flabbergasted,” he added. “They’ve got the right to strike, and I support that, but I’ve got the right to take or not take whatever bookings I want to.”
And people have the right to not drink in his pub.
>The landlord has called the boycott ‘bullying behaviour’
I told them I didn’t want their booking and now they don’t want to drink here! It’s so ***unfair!***
> “They’ve got the right to strike, and I support that, but I’ve got the right to take or not take whatever bookings I want to.”
And everyone’s got the right to boycott your pub, mate.
How has he determined the value that rail strikes have impacted on his business? Seems like a pub should only lose a tiny fraction of its trade as a result of trains not running.
So he bans their bookings and then cries when they boycott?
>has accused the unions of using “bullying behaviour” in calling for the boycott.
“Oh look if it’s not the perfectly symmetrical consequences to my actions”
Sir Issac Newton can be a deadly son of a bitch in social situations as well it seems.
Same landlord was probably begging for support during lockdown.
Respect your fellow workers. We’re all struggling more than we should be right now!
Thanks primarily to the incompetence of the tories.
>”They’ve got the right to strike, and I support that, but I’ve got the right to take or not take whatever bookings I want to.”
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Honestly it’s his loss.
Strikers just want a better life for themselves and their colleagues.
Good on the Bristol ASLEF. Don’t fuck around with unions mate, they like a drink.
Fuck around and find out I guess…. The landlord is a bellend
Hey OP, he could have kept his anti-union views to himself, but he didn’t. The union staff responded in kind. He doesn’t have to put up with them and they won’t give him any of their business. Sounds like a win-win for all involved.
He chose not to do business with the union and the union chose not to do business with him.
I see no issue.
So, the moron says that the rail strikes have affected his business, so to help his business, he turns away business & alienates LOTS of customers?
Fucking brilliant business model.
His business is so much lower on the days when they withdraw their labour that it starts to cause him hardship.
So that means that his business is only viable because of the labour that’s being provided by the public transport workers.
And he wants them to be forced to accept a massive pay cut? What a cunt!
So rail workers are supposed to put up with shit pay and conditions and threats to their livelihoods so this cunt can keep things shipshape at his pub?
Headline should read: Crybully landlord gets what he wanted.
I don’t see the issue. Landlord chooses to reject their business. They tell people. Landlord cries to local newspaper.
Unless the unions form a picket line outside his pub this simply seems to be an absolutely unnecessary self-inflicted injury by the landlord.
Man kicks hornets nest. Man bitches about getting stung.
Quote from landlord in the article: “I don’t particularly have an opinion either way about the rail dispute”
I think you do mate…
Of course a hospitality business owner wants to shit all over strikes, they don’t want their labour force getting any ideas. When you underpay and overwork people for a living you don’t want them seeing others and thinking they might deserve better
What’s going on in here? It’s like some people have been given the words ‘spiteful’ ‘childish’ and ‘bullying’ and been told to use them as much as possible
Hmmm:
“I don’t particularly have an opinion either way about the rail dispute” said the landlord, immaediately after having given several paragraphs-worth of negative opinions about the rail dispute.
I don’t think that critical thinking is one of his string points.
Bizarre in this economy a pub landlord would turn away a big group of paying customers like that.
Several people on this thread (including OP) misleadingly saying that they “went to the council”, implying Bristol City Council. They went to Bristol Trades Union Council. Very different.
What a prat. Is he expecting it to be like the US where Conservatives will go and support him to “own the libs”? The guy has probably just screwed up his business and it’s all self-inflicted.
I’m from Bristol that pub went downhill over a decade ago fuck the owner, he is selling the pub anyway probably doesn’t like bad publicity affecting his sale
…and then as a result of the boycott, he had the temerity to claim he was being “bullied”. Moron.
The business owner has refused to serve them as is his right
The unions have refused to patronise his business as is their right
It’s unclear why you think that’s bullying. Hopefully you’re not a union rep at your current job given you’re unable to fathom why these workers may not want to give their money to the very man who states he didn’t want it
Says he doesn’t have an opinion on the strike but specifically asked if the rail workers striked it is pretty clear which side he stands on
Back when I was a postman I worked at a large sorting office in London. Most of the pubs in the local area knew and welcomed postmen and were richly rewarded for serving them.
But there was one that didn’t and had a notice saying that they didn’t serve postmen.
Now there used to be many characters working in the building at this time and one of them was a postman we called Brainsy. His actual surname was Brains but the name Brainsy suited him because he was a little bit nuts.
Bainsy was about sixty at the time I knew him, a wiry old geezer with a patchy white beard and a glint in his eye that was a warning sign for those that heeded it.
One day he stopped off the pub that didn’t serve postman on his way into work and ordered three pints of lager. The landlord was amused that this guy was going to drink three pints on his own but frankly any landlord that knew his business could see that this was a seasoned drinker.
He poured the third pint, put it down in front of Brainsy and then Brainsy got a thoughtful expression on his face.
“Oh… Oh, you don’t serve postmen, do you?” he said.
Then he unzipped his jacket to show his Royal Mail shirt and walked out.
Brainsy likely is long gone, he’d be older than the hills now and even in his sixties he didn’t back down from a scrap… that’s not quite true he provoked most of the scraps in the first place whether he could win or not. But that little piece of fuckery meant that even when he was being a pain most of the postmen had a soft spot for him.
Love how he gets upset at people pulling the same thing on him he aims at others.
Absolutely fucking *genius* business move in a city as left wing as Bristol.
Why is he complaining? By refusing the booking he’s shown that he doesn’t want the rail worker’s business. He should be happy.
Ah fuck, this is one of my after work pints spots.
Or rather, this *was* one of my after work pints spots.
As a COSS, I’m happy that they have boycotted him. I remember me and my gang going into a restaurant after our shift and we were treated pretty rudely and walked out. Fair play on the lads
Only drank at the Portwall Tavern once. Was your typical small and expensive city centre boozer. Definitely have no desire to go back there – landlord sounds like a bellend.
Has it really come to this? Striking for better pay to protect your own interests is not grounds to bar people from your establishment, and I rightly hope this guy gets pilloried in the court of public opinion.
That’s the craziest mindset emblematic of the type who chunters about Brexit and political correctness gone mad and not being able to say what they want.
Also cowardly anger. Had the bottle to smugly refuse via email but now crying about bullying.
Weird how he claims to not have an opinion on the rail dispute after moaning about it.
>They are getting the wrong end of the stick, and they are using bullying behaviour here. This is a big union bullying a small pub, in saying that. It’s a big sledgehammer to crack a small nut, and I’m flabbergasted,” he added. “They’ve got the right to strike, and I support that, but I’ve got the right to take or not take whatever bookings I want to.”
And people have the right to not drink in his pub.
>The landlord has called the boycott ‘bullying behaviour’
I told them I didn’t want their booking and now they don’t want to drink here! It’s so ***unfair!***
> “They’ve got the right to strike, and I support that, but I’ve got the right to take or not take whatever bookings I want to.”
And everyone’s got the right to boycott your pub, mate.
How has he determined the value that rail strikes have impacted on his business? Seems like a pub should only lose a tiny fraction of its trade as a result of trains not running.
So he bans their bookings and then cries when they boycott?
>has accused the unions of using “bullying behaviour” in calling for the boycott.
“Oh look if it’s not the perfectly symmetrical consequences to my actions”
Sir Issac Newton can be a deadly son of a bitch in social situations as well it seems.
Same landlord was probably begging for support during lockdown.
Respect your fellow workers. We’re all struggling more than we should be right now!
Thanks primarily to the incompetence of the tories.
>”They’ve got the right to strike, and I support that, but I’ve got the right to take or not take whatever bookings I want to.”
And they have the right to boycott you.