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- I'll have them. I've nowwt for me f***ing dinner.

Tha's joking, mate.

I've been for 'em, I keep 'em.

- Like a bit of sardine, don't you, Jack?

- You, you're a greedy bastard!

(Whis pers) Oh, come on, Trace.

(Whis pers) I don't want to. Paul might hear us .

You shouldn't be thinking about Paul,

you should be thinking about me.

- I don't want to.

- Yeah, but I do!

(He sighs )

He can't hear us .

You said... that you could hear him

moving about.

So he must be able to hear us

He's probably asleep by now.

(Faint giggling)

(Moans )

- (Crash)

- What was that?

(Sighs )

Come on, let's get on t'floor.

It'll be cquieter on t'floor.

Look, I just... I don't... I don't want to.

Yeah, but I want to!

(Sighs) Let's just...

Let's just try and go to sleep, eh?

Go to sleep?! How can I get to sleep ?

F***ing hell!

And then, if the... if the... er, if the other men

work the overtime in the week,

and then we change it around the week after.

So if we go on a rota basis...

Well, obviously we'll have to check these figures ,

Bill, but it looks OK at the moment.

Um, just on more general note,

how are things going here?

I mean, is everything on schedule?

I... yeah. I thi... Yeah, I think so.

D'you, er,... D'you think the men are on board?

Er,... well, yeah.

I mean obviously they're... they're a little

concerned about the way things are going and...

- Have we met all the troublemakers yet?

- What troublemakers ?

The union men. You know what I mean.

Er, well, we... we've got

the, er, the union reps, of course, but...

Usually they follow the agreements and...

I don't normally have any trouble with them.

Can I stop you there, Bill?

There are no agreements .

The slate's been wiped clean.

Er, but we've got local and national agreements

that... that go back a... a long way.

- They go back a lot of years and...

- Look, I just said there are no agreements .

It is a clean sheet.

OK? D'you understand that?

(Chuckles) But these...

But these agreements go back...

- Bill...

- ..go back a long... a long way.

Bill, we're wasting time. Anyone who

stands in the way of change is out.

OK?

They're out. They can either go voluntarily

or they can just go.

(Other man) We... We will give them the choice.

Choice? What choice?

We've got agreements that go back a long way.

We... We... These... We've got agreements

for... for promotion and redundancy.

- We have conditions...

- OK.

- Fine.

- I mean, it's...

I understand what you're saying.

No, I understand what you're saying.

Right.

I've signed it already. If you'd just like to write

your letter of resignation above that,

and I'll accept it this afternoon.

Well,... I...

- This is...

- OK. You don't want to do that.

- Of course not.

- All right. Do this .

That lot you've got down the yard.

What are they?

Signals and telecoms or something, isn't it?

- Signals, yeah.

- You brought in clocking off. Is that right?

- With a bit of a concession.

- I did, yeah.

OK, well tell them

the concession's been withdrawn.

- I've only just negotiated it.

- Bill, it's a win-win situation.

You get to keep your job.

I get to know you're on board.

But I need to hear you've done it.

Or that letter gets filled out.

All right, come on, get cracking.

Right. Oh, hello, Jack. Hello.

Right, lads. You're all here, are you? Right.

I've got something pretty important

to tell you all and,... er,...

I'm not sure whether you're gonna like it or not,

but it's about the clocking procedure.

The Sunday. I'm afraid...

that concession's been withdrawn.

- Oh, 'ey.

- I'm afraid so.

Yes, look, I'm sorry.

(Angry muttering)

- I'm sorry, you've just got to accept it.

- No, you agreed.

But an agreement, well, it could be

just a... a... a... an understanding

- which might have been misunderstood.

- You're talking bollocks .

- Oi!

- Just refresh your memory for you, shall l?

- I'll just refresh your memory.

- Oh, here we go.

- Gerry and his famous bits of paper.

- Except on Sundays. Right?

You agreed. Right? It's in the minutes .

- And what's more... is that your signature?

- Yes .

- Is that your signature?

- It is. I'd recognise it, yeah.

That means you signed it.

You have signed this agreement.

OK. I may have done.

But what I'm saying now...

What d'you mean, you may have done,

you blind git? Look, that's your signature!

Can you just watch your language, please?

- Well...

- I'm saying that that was my signature then

- Time...

- Have you swap ped it now?

All right, it's still my signature on an agreement.

- He's swap ped his signature now.

- (Sniggering)

- What I'm saying is...

- You didn't mean it, is that what you're saying?

There's something different now. And it's just

one of those things you have to accept.

No, we don't have to...

We don't need to accept it

because you've already agreed.

All right, Gerry, you don't need to accept it then.

Just go and get your bloody cards .

- (Worker) They're gonna sack you now, eh?

- What about, er...

If you don't wanna accept it,

you know what to do.

- Hang on, hang on. Health and Safety.

- What d' you mean, Health and Safety?

- Health and Safety.

- Yeah, well, what about Health and Safety?

That clock shouldn't be in here.

This is our mess room.

Gerry... But that clock

is not a Health and Safety issue!

Look, we're entitled, right,

to a place away from the workplace, right?

Right. Yes .

- Yes, I agree. Yes .

- So that clock shouldn't be in here.

But it's not gonna poison you, for Christ's sake!

It's not a Health and Safety hazard, is it?

Look, we have to have somewhere to eat, right?

Away from the workplace.

- Yeah, well, this is it, innit?

- What if I ring the Railway Safety lns pectorate?

- Oh, come on, that's ridiculous !

- No, it's not.

You're gonna bring the whole bloody tribe

down on us, are you?

Might well do. Unless that clock's shifted.

- That's what I'll do.

- Oh, this is getting ridiculous .

- I don't care what you say.

- I think I've heard enough now.

It's no more ridiculous than you signing that

and telling us it's no good.

I can always rely on you, can't l?

You are... You...

I don't believe it. This is beyond reason.

This is absolutely unreasonable. Unreasonable.

- Un-bloody...

- Get up there. Tell them to come and shift it.

Un-bloody reasonable! Read my f***ing lips !

(Jeering)

Oh, Mr Jackson!

You've upset him now, Gerry, haven't you?

- He signed that bloody thing.

- Who wants a cup of tea?

- I'll have a cup .

- I'll have one, Webby.

Coffee for me, Paul.

See veins sticking out of his forehead there, eh?

Well, I'm bleeding starving.

Does anybody want any chips ?

- Aye, I'll have some chips, Jack.

- John, d'you want any chips ?

- Who... Who's going there?

- Well, I'm gonna have a walk down.

- Get us some scraps .

- Go on, then, I'll have a bag.

- What d'you want?

- Just a bag.

- Get us a butty, Jack.

- Cheers, pal.

- Here y'are, mate.

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