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May 8, 2010 | 8:21 pm

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nielsdc

Join Date: Dec 2005

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Originally Posted by Jimmie76

Okay maths time again,

So last time of the 81% who voted, only 79% were in favour of strike action which makes the total percentage those crew in the union who voted in favour of a strike to be 64%.

This time it was 71% who bothered to vote, and of those only 81% were in favour of strike action which makes the total percentage those crew in the union who voted no to the offer/in favour of a strike to be just 57.51% I believe (unless my maths is totally wrong).

The turnout was smaller this time, down 10% but the percentage of yes votes was up 3%. So the percentage of total union crew who voted to turn down the offer/yes to strike is down 6.49% from the last ballot.

Another thing to take into account is that a lot of no voters from last time quit the union, so the results are actually worse than the percentages suggest. The absolute amount of voters for the strike would be more telling...

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