Unions threatening strike action if males with a trans identity not allowed access to female toilets.

[GargoylesofBeelzebub]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14717831/amp/Civil-servants-threaten-strikes-transgender-toilets.html

I'm genuinely perplexed by what they hope to achieve here. The outcome can't be for the government just to ignore the law.

Will we find out how many members do actually support the Supreme Court ruling as surely a vote will be required?

Turnout in PCS elections is so comically low that I'd forgotten Serwotka was no longer GS.

PCS has a concentrated form of the problem you get in some other public sector unions, where there are some very good people at branch level, but the leadership are fixated on their image as a Very Left Wing Union, and they're more interested in performatively supporting the Current Thing than doing the basic stuff around pay and conditions.

I'm entitled to join FDA, and sometimes think about it, but I'm not convinced FDA has a membership pitch beyond "we're not as barking as PCS".

Maybe it’s time for women to strike.

'we have quiet rooms that are available, there's a range of options of these right on seven, there's one that has video but no sound if you still want to be able to observe the convention but the sound is an issue. There's also on Piedmont 8 a completely quiet room - one thing to note there. please don't go into that space with anything that's like an aggressive scent for instance, right, because that's going to be difficult for people'

😂

Ah, I had maybe thought Rack from season 6, the magic drug dealer

Goodness, Operation Let Them Speak moving on apace, I see.

Christ, thought that was someone doing a shit cosplay of Bob from Twin Peaks

'Twas 'Hush'.

Thank you! I was able to find some clips from the details on your post!

“point of personal privilege” 😂😂😂

I hope SEEN will be having input on this

About the public service Sex Equality and Equity Network:

seen-network.uk/

That would indeed be a typical Kemi question - displaying her usual disregard for facts.

The PCS is not a "government department" and is not affiliated to the Labour Party.

but what if they do? Do we have to accept that GC women are in the minority and mosp people DGAF about this or any other issue affecting women?

People are not going to go on strike over this and lose pay, however kind they are to families caught up in this.

Well, no. But its members are.

PCS encouraging civil servants to demand their employers contravene the law... It's not actually untrue.

Works for me.

This is too much.

Thank you for this. It's good to know that this is only one person trying to get this on to an agenda - the article made it sound as if this was rather more of a done deal.

Shall we parse what she said?

"How does he plan to lead this country when its government departments are advocating against its laws?"

"Its laws" refers to "this country", not to the Labour party. The Labour party, note, is not mentioned.

"Its government departments" refers to the employees in this country's government departments i.e the Civil Service. The PCS claims to speak for employees in the Civil Service.

It’s nice to see someone supporting the Mail.

What the F* is so magical about our toilets???

It’s not the toilets, it’s us.

I don’t have access to the whole article but more tomfoolery from unions (albeit a different one) seems afoot:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/05/18/uk-biggest-union-unison-trans-woman-runs-senior-female-role/

I can't see any success. Wasn't the vote TWAW done in a very underhand manner a few years ago. The more groups move away from their core mission, the more support drains away

I swear, this would work. If we all actually did stop doing everything expected of us, the world would be ours in under a week. Lysistrata was right. Sex is only one part of it, although that would be enough.

They're supposed to be ours.

This makes me so angry. The Union is supposed to work on behalf of its members, not go out on a limb. All it does it lead to the usual complaints from the general public that there are too many civil servants and we should all be sacked.