They are all at home marking and planning lessons. Dont want to disturb them
Teachers on strike
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They are all at home marking and planning lessons. Dont want to disturb them
The RMT aren't striking today.
I know it was a general comment reagrding union leadership and Bob Crow was being used merely as an example rather than a fact of todays strike action, and in reference to OldCoals post which was a few above mine. sorry for confusion
Sky News had a poll showing 49% of voters didn't support the strike. That's 49% of a few thousand people out of a population of 60 million who were eligible to vote. Rounded that's 0% of the UK population don't support the strike. That's right wing logic eh?
You can count it as a non yes vote. If striking was for them they would have voted YES.
because out of the people who did vote the majority of them voted yes
So 10 million people are polled for a strike, only 3 people vote, 2 in favour 1 against.
Is it right that the union should then strike?
21% of the people polled voted yes. That is hardly a majority, is it.
They are actually doing some work for once! Wow!
Unless we get the wrong kind of sun and then it might stop again
Equally you can count it as a non no vote. If striking wasn't for them they would have voted NO.
watching skynews last night and i nearly put my boot through the tv.
yet again two well paid idiots revewing the papers having a pop at the "well paid" public sector.
you go tell that to the guys who do the bins, were in some places there wages aint much above £15k, and there now being told they have to work longer (eevn though 65 is a hard enough age to reach now for some) and stuff more in the pot for a shorter retirement.
i know public sector bashing is the nations biggest hobby of late but people really need to figure out not everyone is on the same wage and some will be hard pressed to have 20 years of good retirment let alone this mythical figure of 30 years there banding about.
yet again two well paid idiots revewing the papers having a pop at the "well paid" public sector.
you go tell that to the guys who do the bins, were in some places there wages aint much above £15k, and there now being told they have to work longer (eevn though 65 is a hard enough age to reach now for some) and stuff more in the pot for a shorter retirement.
i know public sector bashing is the nations biggest hobby of late but people really need to figure out not everyone is on the same wage and some will be hard pressed to have 20 years of good retirment let alone this mythical figure of 30 years there banding about.
I was angling more towards the maths of.....
Union has say 20000 members.
Union calls a vote for strike action
only 8000 members vote (40% turn out) and the votes are cast as follows:-
5000 aye
3000 nay
end result = 62.5% in favour
actual numbers are 25% say strike
so based on a quarter of the memberships say so the union takes the entire workforce out !!
thats not right wing, left wing, liberal its just idiotic.
If it was legislated that at least 90% of the membership had to turn up and the numbers were
40% yay
35 nay
25% abstentions
I would be far more inclined to have a little more sympathy as the numebrs would show that yes indeed a very large proportion of the union members voted and said we are striking because we don't agree with the government cuts.
talk is cheap, votes are what counts
You can only make the decision based on the result of the vote, speculating on what the intension of the people who didn’t vote was/is, is ridiculous. They obviously didn’t care enough either way to bother and thus trusted the outcome to the ones who cared enough to turn up.
hence why we need legislation that requires x% turn out to legitimise a strike. You can't and shouldn't be able to pull out an entire workforce based on a non representative number of voters
I agree with that, but until it happens its pointless arguing the toss over this vote result.
The only issue is you cant set the bar to high because “no” supporters will simply stay away to make it void.
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Not really because, they will not really garner public support for oging on strike based on less than a third of their entire memberships say so. It makes the everyday private sector joe bloggs resent the union driven public sector just that little bit more. So yes it is worth arguing over this as eventually its what will be the unions undoing.
How much would be an appropriate percentage, though?
51% of the total eligible members voting yes at the very least.
True enough, I stand corrected.