Let's all go on strike!

[Thekwango]

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

what job in Ireland is this you speak of!?

 

[khevolution]

I'm a stay at home dad, can i go on strike?

 

[Ryan-3]

We're out Frenching the French with this many strikes.

 

[ttaskmaster]

what job in Ireland is this you speak of!?

Reading people's water meters. One of my ex-colleagues moved "back home" (despite being a Plastic Paddy) and is now earning £46½K doing just that. Several others followed shortly after, for similar wages.

 

[Nitefly]

Brb moving to Ireland.

 

[ttaskmaster]

Brb moving to Ireland.

Irish Water are offering about £62k for some project manager roles...!!

 

[Scam]

Brb moving to Ireland.

It's all relative, a pint of beer is what £10 over there?

 

[SPG]

UK management is to blame....

Car industry... blame the unions.... actually it was UK management unions took the blame.

Coal industry... fighting the community they was absolutely correct. However coal needed to be removed but not in the way it was dismantled.

UK management is scared of the union simply because they are scared of them and so called power being taken away. Hence you have the management 300miles to the right of the line and you have the unions 300 miles to the left.

UK management is to blame not the unions, the union is the result of shockingly bad management.

 

[Diddums]

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.

This.


I detest this striking culture. What a load of toss.

 

[Leprechaun312]

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.

Yeah not everyone can be an astronaut, but if you don't like your job you can definitely apply for another one, or self teach yourself in the evenings. One of the guys in work has self taught himself after work for just over a year and has come in at a graduate level as a computer security consultant. While he has taken a pay cut in 9 months time he'll be earning significantly more than what he was earning in his previous job.

 

[adolf hamster]

we are the workers, the majority, and this system fears solidarity....

its something that needs to happen sometimes, but striking over something too trivial is surely crying wolf?

 

[Rroff]

When was the last time a strike really accomplished anything for the most part? delivery (internal distribution) drivers for a few companies have done strikes over the last few years and every time the company just shovels stuff out the door as much as possible leading upto it, hires a few agency staff and hardly troubled by it.

The only action I know that has done much lately is one company where a bunch of the drivers got together, resigned to eventually leaving, and went on long term sick as long as possible until the company was forced to push em out which caused such a nightmare that management was forced to treat their staff better for awhile :S

 

[Dolph]

We need a reasonableness test of the strikers position before they are protected from the consequences of their actions.

The fact that all the current strikes would fail such a test shows why it is needed.

 

[Spook187]

Same old old ones in this thread pure jelly fish type of people do as your told yes sir three bag full sir

 

[Dolph]

Same old old ones in this thread pure jelly fish type of people do as your told yes sir three bag full sir

Striking is not a sign of strength, but of failure. It means that whatever demands you are making can't be met by simply changing employers, so instead you throw a tantrum and demand it instead.

If you are that valuable, you don't need to strike.

 

[Scam]

Same old old ones in this thread pure jelly fish type of people do as your told yes sir three bag full sir

Who owes you a job?

 

[Spook187]

Striking is not a sign of strength, but of failure. It means that whatever demands you are making can't be met by simply changing employers, so instead you throw a tantrum and demand it instead.

If you are that valuable, you don't need to strike.

So every person that has striked is a worthless piece, it's not about throwing toys out of the pram and being a militant it's about being heard and not being walked over.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Strikes are supposed to cause problems.

Indeed they're meant to cause problems, but what irks me is the sheer number of sectors involved striking at the moment, where it's increasingly becoming moot / irrelevant.

 

[itchy]

Striking is not a sign of strength, but of failure. It means that whatever demands you are making can't be met by simply changing employers, so instead you throw a tantrum and demand it instead.

If you are that valuable, you don't need to strike.

So what you are saying is, just drop your pants and take it like it is because the shareholders would not like to see a drop in profits.

If people are striking then the employer is failing, not the other way round.

On a last note your last statement of "If you that valuable, you don't need to strike."

Funny you should mention that as was the not young doctors and nurses out on strike not so long ago.

Ivory tower brigade I hate them with a passion, don't forget the is more of us than you.

 

[stewski]

Striking is not a sign of strength, but of failure. It means that whatever demands you are making can't be met by simply changing employers, so instead you throw a tantrum and demand it instead.

If you are that valuable, you don't need to strike.

Strikes are a sign of failure, I can't agree that it's one of ONLY the unions making.

As for the free market "if you are that valuable...", If companies are viable/valuable/fair employers, they will attract loyal non striking employee's No?