Union of Petrol Station Workers

Union of Petrol Station Workers

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Existence and Existentialism

Nature

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Survival with Dignity

Welcome to the website of the Union of Petrol Station Workers, an organisation that is devoted to promoting an understanding of humanity and for determining the validity of an idealism visualised by its founder that above religion and politics human beings should have a fundamental concern for the natural environment that sustains humanity and therefore impose upon themselves a discipline and a duty to preserve that environment for the welfare of future generations by taking from nature only the very minimum that is needed for a fruitful, purposeful and satisfying existence.

The Union of Petrol Station Workers is a membership-driven institution in which members are expected to conduct truth and fact-based research to study avenues for the sustainable progress of mankind based on the altruism of implementing conservational economics for the attainment of human welfare today and thereby ascertaining pathways to ensure humanity's survival with individual dignity through the next 100-500 years. The sourcing, processing, delivery, utilisation-efficiency, and preventable wastage of energy resources is central to this issue; and crude oil being the most important of all fossil fuels, requires particular attention in this regard.

The sole purpose of the Union of Petrol Station workers initially was to secure greater material rights for workers in an industry that was seen by it's founder as generating intolerable slavery-level working conditions in the petrol stations of the United Kingdom, an experience from nearly 4 years of work as a Forecourt Attendant followed by Sales Assistant at the Till serving 300-400 customers per shift of 8 hours. Over the first six months the Union's attempt to establish itself however faced insurmountable hurdles to address the specific issue of negotiating with employers to improve working conditions, arising from government legislations blocking the progress of conventional trade unionism in this specific area of work combined with a general reluctance of petroleum companies and some workers to change working practices. The Union of Petrol Station Workers is therefore presently a canvassing institution working to secure adequate petrol station worker membership to try and make it a viable trades union organisation for the purposes of Certification and Listing at the Certification Office of the government of the United Kingdom.

The Union of Petrol Station Workers is however more than just a budding trades union organisation engaged in the politics of workers rights or socialism per se. It's members should broadly support the conservational idealism that is an unalterable part of its Constitution so that individuals who do not share this goal are not encouraged to join. The organisation sympathises with unionism and socialism, but not at the cost of internationalism.

The name Union of Petrol Station Workers has been retained from its inception name purely because preservation of history and cultural developments was seen by it's founder as being wholly consistent with this principle of adopting a conservational outlook on life and living in harmony with nature. It is also assumed that the development of mankind over the most recent 2 million years or so of history, from ape species to homo sapiens and its subsequent civilisation to present day human diversity world-wide, represents a single continuum that was not simple Darwinian evolution in play, but a form of Guided Evolution from our Universal Being Creator God that is not within the analytical powers of humans to comprehend, let alone predict the future of with any significant degree of probability. Further, this age-old question pales into irrelevance when considering the major questions of planet Earth's habitable survival that mankind faces at the turn of this millennium. Thus, at the broader international level the Union of Petrol Station Workers is also a campaigning institution that will champion the cause of sustainable development of mankind with its twin objectives of addressing human welfare and environmental protection simultaneously.

Accordingly, the Union of Petrol Station Workers now welcomes fresh membership applications from across the world from like-minded entrepreneurs, businessmen, officials of petroleum companies, academic researchers, educationalists, students in higher education establishments, and other interested citizens. Donations of ideas and resources (financial and others) are also sought since the Union has thus far functioned solely on the very meagre financial resources of its founder.

If you subscribe to the above goals please send for an Application Form to take up membership of the Union of Petrol Station Workers. The Membership Fee is at present undecided. Non-membership financial donations may also be made by directly crediting funds into the Bank Account of the Union of Petrol Station Workers.

A list of all members of the Union of Petrol Station Workers and non-member donors will be made available through this website. No donations will be accepted under anonymity stipulation.

The Treasurer of the Union of Petrol Station Workers during its first four months was Ms Gordana Winkworth (a Sales Assistant at Shell -Gillingham, Kent, United Kingdom). The third member was a Sales Assistant at Esso-Darland, Kent, United Kingdom who did not wish to remain part of the UPSW and requested the deletion of his name from this website on 26 October 2008. There uncertainty on the present commitments of the Treasurer remains.

The following websites were developed as part of the development of the UnionofPetrolStationWorkers.Com Foundation for World Development:

From a Trade Union into a Foundation for World Development

Livestock in Agricultural Development

Criteria for Global Nature Conservation

Enery usage and alternative energy saving technologies

Macroeconomics of the World

Environmental Protection Through Detecting Financial Abuses

Cultural aspects of Human Civilisation

A Forum for Membership, Discussion and Newsletter

Distilled Knowledge for World Conservation

Scientific publications of the UnionofPetrolStationWorkers.Com Foundation

The World Conservation Council

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Union of Petrol Station Workers
3 Hoath Lane, Wigmore, Near Gillingham, Kent ME8 0SL, United Kingdom.