30/11 Strikes.
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They actually do have to.
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Really? I was under the impression that some of them were just taking the day off, certainly one of my teachers ( general studies) today did not have any intention of coming in tomorrow. Do they have rallies or what? How do they stop teachers just bunking the day off?
I would imagine they have details of who is and isn't unionised...
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Ha, you have a dedicated general studies teacher? What qualifications do you need for that job? 
Ha, you have a dedicated general studies teacher? What qualifications do you need for that job?
Well he teaches something like anthropology or something.
Probably just needs to be able to wake up in the morning.
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Nope, not here they don't only the unions know where I work.
They know who the union members are. The vast majority of local government employers deduct union membership fees from the wages.
If non-striking staff refuse to cross a picket line then they won't get paid and could be open to disciplinary action.
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They may even be in a Union that isn't taking strike action.
And it's dead easy for an employer to find out who's in a Union when most people pay their subs direct from wages - which is one of the reasons were now migrating to direct debit.
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Just say you feared for your safety
Which according to Dolph would be 100% true if his account of Union bullying and intimidation is to be believed.
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I know the feeling.....Cancelled leave, redeployment at a moments notice etc....sometimes on route home after a tour and turned around before even reaching blighty.....
No recourse to strike either...oe even work to rule for that matter.
Still you sign your name, you pays your ticket....
Indeed, which is why I just get on with it. The coalition wants to increase my contributions and lessen the amount at the end of it but I have little recourse to do much bout it.
They don't get paid if they don't turn up?
It's not like going to school where its cool to 'bunk the day off'
My Uni has cancelled all classes, and the administration building (incidently, where the computer lab I usually go to) is being closed.
One of my tutors has moved back an essay deadline to Thursday because she said she didn't want us having to cross picket lines.
One of my tutors has moved back an essay deadline to Thursday because she said she didn't want us having to cross picket lines.
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No staff where I work will get paid for that day if they choose not to go into work.
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Maybe crossing a picket line means more to them than it does to you?
Just say you feared for your safety
Which according to Dolph would be 100% true if his account of Union bullying and intimidation is to be believed.
I'm on strike so it doesn't apply.
No, I don't. I've been more active during the day recently due to paternity leave and holiday.
It does but not in the same framework or reference we use today, and it certainly warns against leveraging the unit of account due to inherrent risks and distortions it makes between debtors and creditors [hint hint]. WoN is not absolute in its application, and indeed I would certainly argue that it does in no way represent or even construct the Capitalism that we see today. Beyond the division of Labour in pin manufacturing, he does go on to say this very concept if continued will destroy humanity and concluded that the glutteny of the rich is unproductive labour. The Theory of Moral Sentiments was long classed as as incompatible with the WoN inquisition for self serving purposes and it is only now - too late - that people are thinking through the narrow minded and selfish classical thinking.
It's all very well telling someone to read the book, but the book(s) would in part agree with Wildman. It isn't that money needs to exist, or that it will always be this way. It doesn't say that, it was dealing with the economics of the time. You can't stand on top of Smith's shoulders and say it has to be this way, because that it is something he did not consider nor was he in our unenviable position now. Replacing capitalism with bartering would be unthinkable I am no fool, but an aged text not entirely relevent is not the correct fall back position for the status quo.