Mekong Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 The boss of the trade union behind the British Airways strike has admitted visiting a seedy go-go bar while on official business in Thailand. Derek Simpson and fellow Unite official Terry Pye went to the Playskool bar in Bangkok where young women offer customers sex for £40. Mr Simpson, 64, whose union’s membership includes thousands of women, including hundreds of female cabin crew at BA, drank beer in the bar while girls dressed only in bikinis danced on stage. Women who work at Playskool are forced to earn a living by selling sex to customers. Their wages are cut substantially by the bar owners unless they sleep with at least nine clients every month. A British tourist who was in the bar says he saw the two union men enjoying a drink there. Mr Simpson, the £105,000-a-year joint general secretary of Unite, and Mr Pye, the union’s national officer for the steel industry, were in Bangkok at the end of last month during a crucial period of negotiations aimed at averting the current series of BA cabin crew strikes over pay and conditions. They flew to Thailand at union expense for a two-day stopover to meet union leaders from the Thai motor industry. From there they flew on to Sydney where they met Australian union bosses to discuss Unite’s plans to form a global trade union. Last night Unite refused to reveal the cost of the trip, but union insiders estimated the bill came to around £2,000, including two £659 return economy flights on the Taiwanese airline EVA. Accommodation in Australia was paid for by the Australian unions. Mr Simpson was spotted in Bangkok on February 28 by Denis Simons, 72, from Northampton, his wife Hazel and their son Lee, 47. Full Story As usual the Daily Mail readers comments are priceless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 Hi, "Women who work at Playskool are forced to earn a living by selling sex to customers." Never let the truth stand in the way of selling newspapers. Forced? Riiigghhtttt! Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 You keeping stacking up the 1000 Baht notes and you will have a force that will take them down... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanddawg1 Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 Going out on strike in this economy shows how ignorant and arrogant these union fucks are they should all be sacked and replaced with people who want to work!!! I spent 13 years working in a union shop NEVER AGAIN!!!! S1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted March 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 Hi, "Women who work at Playskool are forced to earn a living by selling sex to customers." Never let the truth stand in the way of selling newspapers. Forced? Riiigghhtttt! Sanuk! Hence my remark about the readers comments, typical readership for the Daily Wail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallenda Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 Going out on strike in this economy shows how ignorant and arrogant these union fucks are they should all be sacked and replaced with people who want to work!!! I spent 13 years working in a union shop NEVER AGAIN!!!! S1 It seems to have deeply affected you... pushed you over the edge almost. Maybe all unions should be abolished regardless what good they do, since we do have this one case with lots of exclamation points added at the end. My dad works with a good union, has pay rises and benefits like you dream about its the next generation that will lose out on these kinds of things, as unions lose influence If you think lower pay and fewer benefits are a good thing, then yes you should be against unions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanddawg1 Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 Point taken but in my 30+ years of work experience as both craftsman and management positions in several prominent industries I have found unions to be a useless if not destructive force in the workplace. In the early 1900s unions were a great and helpful entity to the workforce but their time has passed. S1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USVirgin Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 From the entire article: [color:blue]"We spent much more time in another bar where there were three Filipino girls singing like the Sugababes."[/color] Too bad the midget doorman is gone, otherwise the Mail might have given the Check Inn a mention by name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanddawg1 Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 I like the Check Inn girl singers :content: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 From the entire article: [color:blue]"We spent much more time in another bar where there were three Filipino girls singing like the Sugababes."[/color] Too bad the midget doorman is gone, otherwise the Mail might have given the Check Inn a mention by name. Obviously a certain male singer wasn't there that night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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