public service strikes

[southeastastra]

so now post office

but before tube, fire service police???

cheap labour immigrants

nujf;sljf

the police aren't allowed to strike.

That could change.

I think fireman and tube workers should also be banned from striking. I'm not quite so bothered about post. I can wait for my e-bay.

WTF is with this thread? Cheap labour immigrants what has that to do with the price of mustard. Hope this isnt going to be another dig at immigration being the route of all evil. Firemen, its a contentious issue, but why should the be held to ransom. The tube?? Well hardly an emergency service but very necessary. But why shouldnt these people, in relatively low paid employment have the rights to stand up for themselves. Maybe if they dare to dissent, they should be lined up and shot!!

LEM, lol, I thought I was in the twilight zone that no-one had said that.

I'm opposed to tube workers striking because many of the people who they prevent from getting to work make less money than the striking tube drivers. Like nursees for example. If they don't go to work, they don't get paid (okay some do, but some don't). So, how is that justified? It's not, in my opinion.

And firefighter, well, I realised how absurd and scary the strike was a few years ago when they brought out the armed forces in their Green Goddesses. And I saw one of the green goddesses on the side of the road, broken down, it had caught fire. Now, how's that for irony?

I think any service that is vital to the normal operating of the city should not be allowed to strike. That does not mean they should not have other tools of negotiation. But, not striking. That hursts the people who need the service more than it hurts the company who operates the service.

The military can't strike, but they get held to ransom.
They have to go out in their crap green Goddesses (green monsters is more appropriate), without the specialist training the firfighters have.
Also like Eleusis says, when the tube workers/tarin drivers etc go on strike, then the people they affect are other hard working people.

This is a difficult one though isnt it, and i think we would all agree that these people shouldnt strike, however without the right to strike how are they going to negotiate fair pay and conditions etc? I dont have the answer to this