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Mick Lynch called for National Strike

164 replies

ivykaty44 · 01/02/2023 20:48

At a cost of living rally

are you for it YANBU
against it YABU

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AceofPentacles · 01/02/2023 21:30

Yes I support it

TigerQueen89 · 01/02/2023 21:32

ivykaty44 · 01/02/2023 20:48

At a cost of living rally

are you for it YANBU
against it YABU

A good rule of thumb is, whatever Mick Lynch says , do the exact opposite.

He is of the far left and their motto is “Chaos is a Ladder”.

The RMT strike he’s been leading is first and foremost a political strike. The membership is being mugged by a leadership with extremist views.

We just need to wait a little bit longer until the election next year and the opportunity to vote in social democratic government. It’s what this country desperately needs. Not shysters like Lynch: socialist with a capitalist income using the work force for his own ends.

WalkingThroughTreacle · 01/02/2023 21:34

I'm not totally against the principle but I suspect it would be extremely divisive. It would become a toxic them and us situation with those willing to strike turning on friends, neighbours and strangers who weren't. I also wonder how many of the not insignificant number of WFHers would just quietly keep working and earning.

Iunderstandit · 01/02/2023 21:35

What’s a national strike? Would it be just for public sector or private as well? I’m private sector and only got 3% pay rise last year, this year nothing so would like a look in as well!

DNBU · 01/02/2023 21:36

For

gogohmm · 01/02/2023 21:48

No because pay rises need to be funded, some of us aren't getting any pay rise - I'd take the teachers pay in a heartbeat. I work with some of the most marginalised in society

lukelovesu · 01/02/2023 21:48

Definitely for

Emmamoo89 · 01/02/2023 21:50

Yep

StoneofDestiny · 01/02/2023 21:54

Or - maybe we should just let the Tories and their multi millionaire school chums keep lying to Parliament, keep lying to voters, keep defrauding the Inland Revenue, keep defending bullies, keep break the law (especially ones they passed) while denying hard working people pay rises that keep their heads above water!
For once it seems we have ordinary working people saying 'we've had enough'.

Blondewithredlips · 01/02/2023 22:05

We need one. Enough is enough. Rich feathering their nests meanwhile the little people suffer.

hobbledyhoy · 01/02/2023 22:07

Yep, not before time. I'll join.

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 01/02/2023 22:19

TigerQueen89 · 01/02/2023 21:32

A good rule of thumb is, whatever Mick Lynch says , do the exact opposite.

He is of the far left and their motto is “Chaos is a Ladder”.

The RMT strike he’s been leading is first and foremost a political strike. The membership is being mugged by a leadership with extremist views.

We just need to wait a little bit longer until the election next year and the opportunity to vote in social democratic government. It’s what this country desperately needs. Not shysters like Lynch: socialist with a capitalist income using the work force for his own ends.

Show quote history

he’s not far left at all- listen to his James Obrien podcast- he clearly states he’s not anti capitalism or profit but rather he thinks the minions deserve a bigger slice of the pie. He’s pro a fair society not communism !

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 01/02/2023 22:19

gogohmm · 01/02/2023 21:48

No because pay rises need to be funded, some of us aren't getting any pay rise - I'd take the teachers pay in a heartbeat. I work with some of the most marginalised in society

Racing to the bottom- good for you!

HellcatSpangledShalalala · 01/02/2023 22:27

Well said in both of those matters @OnlyFoolsnMothers

Crispynoodle · 01/02/2023 22:28

💯 yes solidarity

RafaistheKingofClay · 01/02/2023 22:28

Heli1copter · 01/02/2023 21:18

Isn't our economy enough of a basket case already without the world seeing us go on strike as a nation?

The rest of the world would probably have been on strike ages ago if they were in the uk’s position.

It’s long overdue. TUC were trying call a general strike for today but the health unions aren’t ready to join one yet. If the government does nothing, I do think we’ll end up with one.

Original poster
ivykaty44 · 01/02/2023 22:31

No because pay rises need to be funded

this is true, how will the divide between rich and poor continue to rise at the fastest rates since records began, if the pay rises are given? Where would the millions in profits come from if they were diverted to those on, near or close to the bottom of the pay scale?

you go without your payrise you’d take in a heartbeat and rest assure those rich at the top don’t go without

they’ve certainly pitted you up against your own kind successful

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JustFrustrated · 01/02/2023 22:31

Just for public sector right?

Not the rest of the work force in private?

Original poster
ivykaty44 · 01/02/2023 22:34

Not the rest of the work force in private?

its still lawful presently for anyone to strike, how much longer that will be the case though, I’m not sure.

do you belong to a union? Not that you need to belong to a union to strike

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Davepartyof3 · 01/02/2023 22:34

It would have my full support

Hippywannabe · 01/02/2023 22:53

Has he given a date for this? I am in favour!

Sugarplumfairy65 · 01/02/2023 22:59

It would have my full support

PopGoesTheProsecco · 01/02/2023 23:05

I’m in!

My mum was getting fired up about strikes when I last visited her. Practically foaming at the mouth at nurses, teachers, paramedics etc striking for (in her words) inflation busting increases.

I reminded her that in April her pension will increase by 10.1%.

I don’t begrudge pensioners the uplift but working people need an uplift too, and many in the public sector had a pay freeze for years.

QueenOfHiraeth · 01/02/2023 23:13

I agree the government are a shower of shite and would like to see wealth rebalanced towards the poorer in society but I would like to see that done via the normal democratic means of a general election than allowing people like Mick Lynch to press his own socialist aims on us