Do you sympathise with the strikers?

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I'm afraid it's a no from me.

We are in West Yorkshire and we are just entering week 3 of a full bus drivers strike from one of the operators.

It's costing £75 a week in taxis to get my daughter to and from school. It's 6 miles away so too far to walk and I'm disabled and can't drive.

For my eldest daughter to visit her girlfriend it should be a 15 minute bus journey. Now it's a bus to Bradford Centre, then another one to Leeds, then another to her town.

My husband works in a minimum wage job and some of his colleagues who cannot drive are having to take unpaid leave as they can't afford taxis to get them to work and back.

I'm pretty frustrated and wish they would just bloody agree on something!!

Interested to hear other peoples thoughts and opinions especially with all these other potential strikes coming up.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=QeXy-WxYG28&feature=youtu.be

Some analysis on why the strikes continue - and what's behind the lack of agreement - from one perspective.

Yes, I do. If a few weeks or months of disruption is what it takes to have public services working properly, then that's better in the long term. Workers leaving essential jobs is a disaster for the country.

Incidious zero hours contracts (an idea first rolled out in China and growing in popularity over here with a lot of firms) makes me want to side with strikers every time.

I support the Strikers. Someone needs to protect worker's rights.