The right to strike

[Bella Fortuna]

RuleBritannia wrote:

Your opinion about whether or not a strike is necessary is not relevant. What the media report or think also doesn't matter. The dispute is between the employer and the employee.

Not entirely true. Publicity and the media image usually strongly impact the decision to strike and what theatrics will be engaged in.

[Meekychuppet]

If a person has a good knowledge of history then it is beyond me how that person could ever be against striking workers. Historically the few have grown fat on the labour of the many. The BA strike is a classic example. The morons running the company have run it badly and now want to mistreat the workers they employ. This dispute is the result of poor management and poor management is the result of a culture where, when things go wrong, the common man picks up the tab and gets squeezed harder and harder. You can be sure that if BA works its way back in to profit then the workers who actually did it will see none of the profits. We live in a world of socialised losses and privatised profits, and it the workers strike then I hope it disrupts as much as possible. Workers do not strike until they have been pushed far beyond what is reasonable, mainly because humans will conform even if conditions are not as they should be.

Corporations that fail deserve everything that comes to them in the recession. I would have let the banks go under too. Fuck them. The Planet of the Apes scenarios being predicted if we didn't bail them out were bullshit. The idea that country would be fucked if we didn't is bullshit. We're fucked anyway. People are still losing their homes, jobs and livelihoods. All except the banks, political class and those in charge. The striking workers at BA are striking ultimately because of the recession and the recession has come about because the 'banking crisis' was the biggest heist in history and they've got away with it. When the bubble burst the rich were richer and the poor were poorer and the chasm is fucking huge, 15 times greater tan when Blair took power. Not one single politician has the balls to hunt these fuckers down and put them in jail. I'll vote for the first one that says he or she will.

[Hermit]

If a person has a good knowledge of history then it is beyond me how that person could ever be against striking workers. Historically the few have grown fat on the labour of the many. The BA strike is a classic example. The morons running the company have run it badly and now want to mistreat the workers they employ. This dispute is the result of poor management and poor management is the result of a culture where, when things go wrong, the common man picks up the tab and gets squeezed harder and harder. You can be sure that if BA works its way back in to profit then the workers who actually did it will see none of the profits. We live in a world of socialised losses and privatised profits, and it the workers strike then I hope it disrupts as much as possible. Workers do not strike until they have been pushed far beyond what is reasonable, mainly because humans will conform even if conditions are not as they should be.

Corporations that fail deserve everything that comes to them in the recession. I would have let the banks go under too. Fuck them. The Planet of the Apes scenarios being predicted if we didn't bail them out were bullshit. The idea that country would be fucked if we didn't is bullshit. We're fucked anyway. People are still losing their homes, jobs and livelihoods. All except the banks, political class and those in charge. The striking workers at BA are striking ultimately because of the recession and the recession has come about because the 'banking crisis' was the biggest heist in history and they've got away with it. When the bubble burst the rich were richer and the poor were poorer and the chasm is fucking huge, 15 times greater tan when Blair took power. Not one single politician has the balls to hunt these fuckers down and put them in jail. I'll vote for the first one that says he or she will.

Spot on!

[Pensioner]

If a person has a good knowledge of history then it is beyond me how that person could ever be against striking workers. Historically the few have grown fat on the labour of the many. The BA strike is a classic example. The morons running the company have run it badly and now want to mistreat the workers they employ. This dispute is the result of poor management and poor management is the result of a culture where, when things go wrong, the common man picks up the tab and gets squeezed harder and harder. You can be sure that if BA works its way back in to profit then the workers who actually did it will see none of the profits. We live in a world of socialised losses and privatised profits, and it the workers strike then I hope it disrupts as much as possible. Workers do not strike until they have been pushed far beyond what is reasonable, mainly because humans will conform even if conditions are not as they should be.

Corporations that fail deserve everything that comes to them in the recession. I would have let the banks go under too. Fuck them. The Planet of the Apes scenarios being predicted if we didn't bail them out were bullshit. The idea that country would be fucked if we didn't is bullshit. We're fucked anyway. People are still losing their homes, jobs and livelihoods. All except the banks, political class and those in charge. The striking workers at BA are striking ultimately because of the recession and the recession has come about because the 'banking crisis' was the biggest heist in history and they've got away with it. When the bubble burst the rich were richer and the poor were poorer and the chasm is fucking huge, 15 times greater tan when Blair took power. Not one single politician has the balls to hunt these fuckers down and put them in jail. I'll vote for the first one that says he or she will.

Spot on!

Well said Meeky you hit the nail on the head with that post

[RuleBritannia]

Now the AA are going on strike:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8607621.stm

AA patrol staff have voted to go on strike in a dispute over pensions.
The Independent Democratic Union (IDU) said its members had voted 57% in favour of industrial action in an 87% turnout.
If it goes ahead, the union said it would be the first walkout in the motoring body's 105-year history.

It's a freaking epidemic!