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AIBU to think that everyone should strike

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Bollocks989 · 09/08/2022 22:19

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62485314

AIBU to think that everyone should strike and noone should work, at least until the government will print some more money, or take some more loans out, and we will all be fine?

OP posts:
RobertaFirmino · 09/12/2022 00:13

I take it you didn't study Germany between WW1 and WW2 at school then?

CourtneeLuv · 09/12/2022 00:21

Bollocks989 · 09/08/2022 22:19

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62485314

AIBU to think that everyone should strike and noone should work, at least until the government will print some more money, or take some more loans out, and we will all be fine?

Dunno about strike but everyone should stop paying their energy bills until the rate is made more reasonable.

Japanesejazz · 09/12/2022 00:27

Well, the latest deal put to RMT was
4% pay rise for 2022
4% pay rise for 2023
2024 you will all be made redundant
Thats from the government, the rail companies and the RMT rejected the offer
I expect a similar one will come to the NHS workers once they’ve defeated the railway

Nat6999 · 09/12/2022 01:06

With a bit of luck all the strikes can bring down the government & force a general election. I know the Tories are trying to do a Margaret Thatcher with their threats of banning strikes but nobody can physically force all the strikers back to work, good luck to all the strikers & stand together, after Christmas they should try & organise their strikes on the same days & bring the country to a standstill.

Nat6999 · 09/12/2022 01:06

With a bit of luck all the strikes can bring down the government & force a general election. I know the Tories are trying to do a Margaret Thatcher with their threats of banning strikes but nobody can physically force all the strikers back to work, good luck to all the strikers & stand together, after Christmas they should try & organise their strikes on the same days & bring the country to a standstill.

Woopdaboo · 09/12/2022 01:16

A lot of low paid jobs could be automated. So strike away and fast track it? Caring roles, nursing etc, they need pay rises. Train drivers? Safer system if its automated….hence heavy stikes to save themselves

ilovesooty · 09/12/2022 01:19

Userg1234 · 08/12/2022 21:55

Right I've severed on tuc sub committees and have been a full time union rep.
but isn't it strange that certain unions only strike i in the winter and under a Tory government...very 1974.
AnD it's mainly the unions with very left wing leaders.

I understand that prices are rising and wages ain t so nurses etc yes strike. Fully understand that underpaid staff. But university lecturers and train staff who's both median income is above average....ask your selves why

You've seriously served on TUC subcommittees and been a union rep? 😂

talkingmorenonsense · 09/12/2022 01:21

There are many people who aren’t members of a big union, what about them? The country has gone to hell in a hand cart, I don’t know what the answers are.

ilovesooty · 09/12/2022 01:23

talkingmorenonsense · 09/12/2022 01:21

There are many people who aren’t members of a big union, what about them? The country has gone to hell in a hand cart, I don’t know what the answers are.

Everyone has a right to be a member of a union.

picklespark · 09/12/2022 01:26

Mamamia7962 · 10/08/2022 09:57

Kisaki333 - Marie Antoinette never actually said "let them eat cake". I watched a documentary on it and there are quite a few things that people believe happened during the French Revolution that aren't true.

OP - The problem with striking is that if workers ask for a really high pay rise and get it, other workers then want the same (understandably), and that money has to be found from somewhere, so the cost is passed on to the consumer so it almost becomes like a viscous circle, wages go up, products go up, so it has to be in line with inflation.

Not even close. The current inflation we're experiencing is not caused or driven by wage rises, so giving people higher wages would not increase it.

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