Let's all go on strike!

Pawnless Endgame · 15 Dec 2016 at 16:52

Southern have been on strike numerous times this year.

Post Office is striking next week.

Argos delivery drivers.

Pilots from British Airways.

Various teacher strikes.

With various companies and sectors doing this, it kinda weakens their argument. We as customers are being penalised, and remember - the customer is always right! Do you guys therefore think that union powers should be decreased? Otherwise, we may as well all go on strike. A general strike!

Diagro · 15 Dec 2016 at 16:55

Strikes give the minority power.

leave them alone.

ubersonic · 15 Dec 2016 at 16:55

Pawnless Endgame said:
Do you guys therefore think that union powers should be decreased?

Yes. They shouldn't be allowed to hold the public hostage just because they don't appreciate how generous their wages are >.>

Spook187 · 15 Dec 2016 at 16:57

Pawnless Endgame said:
and remember - the customer is always right!

Wrong.

beachBOYken · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:00

Pilots from BA striking?

Thought it was cabin crew.

shifty_uk · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:00

These strikes wind me up no end. Don't like your job or pay? Advance yourself and get out of it, there's plenty of others that would love to take your place.

Give the jobs to those who need them.

Sliver · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:00

There needs to be a balance between Union power and Government power. Personally, I prefer it when Unions hold the Government to account and force through more rights for the working class. But I'm working class so I would say that wouldn't I?. If you have pots of money, none of this matters.

shifty_uk · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:01

Sliver said:
There needs to be a balance between Union power and Government power. Personally, I prefer it when Unions hold the Government to account and force through more rights for the working class. But I'm working class so I would say that wouldn't I?. If you have pots of money, none of this matters.

Rights are fine but endlessly striking over pay increases...

Diagro · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:02

shifty_uk said:
These strikes wind me up no end. Don't like your job or pay? Advance yourself and get out of it, there's plenty of others that would love to take your place.

Give the jobs to those who need them.

Its a shame that what you suggest cant happen to some. such as teachers.

Tuppy_Glossop · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:03

I thought Thatcher made strikes illegal or summat ?

Agent_Smith357 · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:05

Strikes are supposed to cause problems.

Tunney · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:08

shifty_uk said:
These strikes wind me up no end. Don't like your job or pay? Advance yourself and get out of it

Not everyone gets to be an astronaut. Not everyone can realistically move between jobs.

We live in a society where the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Unions are one of the few powers that allow the 'little people' to fight back.

Scam · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:08

What are the stats for the proportion of union members from Southern Rail taking part in the vote to strike (or not)? I know on the tube strikes it's ludicrously low. It's never more than 50% of the workforce actually voting, yet they still get to go on the strike because the number is counted as a proportion of those that actually voted. So you get 35% voter turnout, yet 80% of that vote to strike. Therefore you strike. Seems backwards to me, as only those that want to strike will vote.

Sliver · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:09

Agent_Smith357 said:
Strikes are supposed to cause problems.

Back to front. Problems cause strikes. :rolleyes:

B@Th*nG · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:09

typical bloody "have it all" whining on about something he knows nothing about, as if social mobility is a piece of ****. Give away your rights to protest with grave caution. It inconveniences you, it's supposed to! Think outside of your own sand box for a while.

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ttaskmaster · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:10

shifty_uk said:
These strikes wind me up no end. Don't like your job or pay? Advance yourself and get out of it, there's plenty of others that would love to take your place.

We have stacks of vacancies left by people who've done exactly this... mainly because we pay about 30% less than everyone else in our industry - No-one wants to take our places and even the graduates we chuck into the roles up and leave within 6 months!!

Unfortunately it's down to the area you live in, else I'd move to Ireland and earn £45,000 just from reading meters!!

Scam · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:15

B@Th*nG said:
typical bloody "have it all" whining on about something he knows nothing about, as if social mobility is a piece of ****. Give away your rights to protest with grave caution. It inconveniences you, it's supposed to! Think outside of your own sand box for a while.

Ha, you think train guards and drivers are striking to enhance social mobility? That's the best joke I've heard in a long time. By very definition those striking are determined to cling on to one single job for as long as humanly possible and use striking to improve their benefits/worklife so that they don't have to get a better job.

Notice how a vast number of people supported the recent doctor's strike? The train drivers are striking to keep an outdated job in an outdated industry run on a monopoly that does little to serve it's customer base. This is why they must be stopped.

dacads · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:17

The country could literally collapse if we did that!

Makes you wonder how long before these strikes are taken to the next level..

Orionaut · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:20

Workers should have the right to strike, Employers should have the right to sack people who do not turn up to work when they are supposed to!

B@Th*nG · 15 Dec 2016 at 17:24

Scam said:
Ha, you think train guards and drivers are striking to enhance social mobility? That's the best joke I've heard in a long time. By very definition those striking are determined to cling on to one single job for as long as humanly possible and use striking to improve their benefits/worklife so that they don't have to get a better job.

Notice how a vast number of people supported the recent doctor's strike? The train drivers are striking to keep an outdated job in an outdated industry run on a monopoly that does little to serve it's customer base. This is why they must be stopped.

you've totally missed my point. my point is that social mobility is really difficult..

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