The right to strike

[Tigger]

If public transport shuts down it has a far greater impact than just making people late, and having to find other modes of transport.
If they plan to do it on any business day, then no it's simply far too wide-reaching. Do it every Sunday, or something.

This just lessens the impact of the industrial action as far as some people are concerned, rendering the strike "weaker", but I totally agree with you. There are always those who take the "us and them" attitude to employment, often just for the sake of some misplaced political ideology.

[RuleBritannia]

If public transport shuts down it has a far greater impact than just making people late, and having to find other modes of transport.
If they plan to do it on any business day, then no it's simply far too wide-reaching. Do it every Sunday, or something.

A protest that inconveniences no one achieves nothing.

[RuleBritannia]

If public transport shuts down it has a far greater impact than just making people late, and having to find other modes of transport.
If they plan to do it on any business day, then no it's simply far too wide-reaching. Do it every Sunday, or something.

This just lessens the impact of the industrial action as far as some people are concerned, rendering the strike "weaker", but I totally agree with you. There are always those who take the "us and them" attitude to employment, often just for the sake of some misplaced political ideology.

And what would that "misplaced political ideology" be?

[The Red Fox]

If public transport shuts down it has a far greater impact than just making people late, and having to find other modes of transport.
If they plan to do it on any business day, then no it's simply far too wide-reaching. Do it every Sunday, or something.

This just lessens the impact of the industrial action as far as some people are concerned, rendering the strike "weaker", but I totally agree with you. There are always those who take the "us and them" attitude to employment, often just for the sake of some misplaced political ideology.

A lot of the time it's necessary. Without the WSPU's militancy (some in the day would have argued terrorism) women would not have the vote. The poll tax riots "inconvenienced" business owners, but something greater came out of it - repealing the Poll Tax and Thatcher's resignation. Ghandi, Mandela, Castro, Guevara, Lenin, Pankhurst, Martin Luther King...Without their "misplaced political ideology" the world would be a worse place to live in.

[Tigger]

If public transport shuts down it has a far greater impact than just making people late, and having to find other modes of transport.
If they plan to do it on any business day, then no it's simply far too wide-reaching. Do it every Sunday, or something.

This just lessens the impact of the industrial action as far as some people are concerned, rendering the strike "weaker", but I totally agree with you. There are always those who take the "us and them" attitude to employment, often just for the sake of some misplaced political ideology.

And what would that "misplaced political ideology" be?

One sometimes finds people living in circumstances that bely their expressed opinions: the vocal communist living well in a capitalist society; the priest with the penchant for little boys; the clean-living politician with a mistress; the sort of person who goes along with such opinions without consideration of the impact of their actions or the actions they support until it actually makes a difference to them. That kind of thing.

[RuleBritannia]

One sometimes finds people living in circumstances that bely their expressed opinions: the vocal communist living well in a capitalist society; the priest with the penchant for little boys; the clean-living politician with a mistress; the sort of person who goes along with such opinions without consideration of the impact of their actions or the actions they support until it actually makes a difference to them. That kind of thing.

I fail to see what that has to do with striking over working conditions.

[Tigger]

One sometimes finds people living in circumstances that bely their expressed opinions: the vocal communist living well in a capitalist society; the priest with the penchant for little boys; the clean-living politician with a mistress; the sort of person who goes along with such opinions without consideration of the impact of their actions or the actions they support until it actually makes a difference to them. That kind of thing.

I fail to see what that has to do with striking over working conditions.

Ok.

[Rum]

One sometimes finds people living in circumstances that bely their expressed opinions: the vocal communist living well in a capitalist society; the priest with the penchant for little boys; the clean-living politician with a mistress; the sort of person who goes along with such opinions without consideration of the impact of their actions or the actions they support until it actually makes a difference to them. That kind of thing.

I fail to see what that has to do with striking over working conditions.

Ok.

Sorted then.

[Tigger]

One sometimes finds people living in circumstances that bely their expressed opinions: the vocal communist living well in a capitalist society; the priest with the penchant for little boys; the clean-living politician with a mistress; the sort of person who goes along with such opinions without consideration of the impact of their actions or the actions they support until it actually makes a difference to them. That kind of thing.

I fail to see what that has to do with striking over working conditions.

Ok.

Sorted then.

Yep. Can't be arsed TBH.
I'd make a crap politician/debater.

[Rum]

One sometimes finds people living in circumstances that bely their expressed opinions: the vocal communist living well in a capitalist society; the priest with the penchant for little boys; the clean-living politician with a mistress; the sort of person who goes along with such opinions without consideration of the impact of their actions or the actions they support until it actually makes a difference to them. That kind of thing.

I fail to see what that has to do with striking over working conditions.

Ok.

Sorted then.

Yep. Can't be arsed TBH.
I'd make a crap politician/debater.

Join the club. Far too much fuss made of stuff.

[Tigger]

One sometimes finds people living in circumstances that bely their expressed opinions: the vocal communist living well in a capitalist society; the priest with the penchant for little boys; the clean-living politician with a mistress; the sort of person who goes along with such opinions without consideration of the impact of their actions or the actions they support until it actually makes a difference to them. That kind of thing.

I fail to see what that has to do with striking over working conditions.

Ok.

Sorted then.

Yep. Can't be arsed TBH.
I'd make a crap politician/debater.

Join the club. Far too much fuss made of stuff.

Fancy a cuppa?

[Rum]

Join the club. Far too much fuss made of stuff.

Fancy a cuppa?

Please. No sugar thanks.

Raining where you are?

[Tigger]

Pissing down. I need to air the dog too. Farting a lot she is.

[Rum]

Pissing down. I need to air the dog too. Farting a lot she is.

Me too.

Night and fuck them all I say. Well I would if I could be arsed.

[Trolldor]

If public transport shuts down it has a far greater impact than just making people late, and having to find other modes of transport.
If they plan to do it on any business day, then no it's simply far too wide-reaching. Do it every Sunday, or something.

This just lessens the impact of the industrial action as far as some people are concerned, rendering the strike "weaker", but I totally agree with you. There are always those who take the "us and them" attitude to employment, often just for the sake of some misplaced political ideology.

A lot of the time it's necessary. Without the WSPU's militancy (some in the day would have argued terrorism) women would not have the vote. The poll tax riots "inconvenienced" business owners, but something greater came out of it - repealing the Poll Tax and Thatcher's resignation. Ghandi, Mandela, Castro, Guevara, Lenin, Pankhurst, Martin Luther King...Without their "misplaced political ideology" the world would be a worse place to live in.

The same can be said of any significant historical figure from Alexander the Great to Goering. Without them the world wouldn't be what it is today. But worse? I hardly think so. You're speculating on an indeterminable alternate future based on nothing. You have no idea what the world would be like without them.