They all said if I voted for Corbyn we’d be going back to the 70s but I didn’t realise that still held even if he didn’t win.
“Tesco has announced that store staff currently on £9.55 per hour will earn an hourly rate of £10.10 from July. That’s a chunky 5.8pc wage rise, which sounds pretty generous.”
The Telegraph.
That’s an extra 65p an hour – in two months time.
There’s a lot of people being balloted at the end of the month in my union, the strikes are coming.
Not since they convinced the masses that unions and strikes were bad, and that any one demanding or getting a bit more pay is the enemy it won’t.
So hang on instead of advocating for higher wages and increased unionisation the Torygraph is suggesting that the only way to combat the cost of living crisis is by loosening sanctions on Russia
Yes god yes. My parents would finally shut up about the 1970s being the worst time in human history because of Unions
Oh yay, even more disruption to everyday living. As if 2 years of my 20s disappearing wasn’t enough.
Good. I remember the 1970’s and the general support that the population gave workers throughout the winter of discontent and the strikes. In many ways it brought the country closer together.
Whether it will ever be supported like that again in our new modern rightward leaning but apathetic Britain I don’t know, but we could do with that level of solidarity we used to have.
Imagine if Jezza had of won – good job Murdoch made us vote against our own interests
Paywall. If I didn’t eat avocado on toast 3 meals a day with a coffee I’d be able to afford a Telegraph subscription and a house.
Riots will be a possibility too. The government will do their best to ignore strikes, especially in the private sector, those in poverty will not be able to ignore hunger though. With food banks struggling to meet demand and inflation continuing to rise, it might not take much to spark a riot.
What is about to happen in this country this year and next will be like what nobody has witnessed in a generation. Hopefully we can use it to bring about some real wholesale change and redistribute wealth to the people that actually labour for it. Hopefully we can all start to agree that we should stop voting these elitist cunts into power.
Wage starved Britain *needs* 1970s-style mass strikes.
Much harder for unions to call a strike nowadays. Much harder for the to get people to vote for one considering many are living hand to mouth and can’t afford a strike. Many if not most in low paid jobs aren’t in a union.
Well my employer has issued us a final pay offer of 2.1%. I’m not hanging about. That’s fucking degrading. See ya, fuckers.
This will never happen. Unfortunately we’ll all be to broke to assemble and have no energy to move.
They fought the 2019 election on a ‘change’ ticket and won. That tells you how shameless they are, and how gullible we are.
I bet you they fight 2024 blaming all of this on Brexit because ‘Labour prevented us getting a good deal’ – what’s scary is that they might just win with that.
All this and people still think Corbyn would have done worse. Like how? I wasn’t a fan but still he would have attended all the cobra meetings on covid, locked down sooner saving a lot of lifes, not sent the elderly who had covid back into the homes to end up spreading/killing many elderly in the homes, probably would have looked and even started universal basic income, NHS would have got all the help it needed, no partygate, as much as some want us back in the EU going against that would have been bad but at least he probably would have had a plan to make Brexit not as bad as we got, would be doing more on climate change so less relying on Russia, less/no Russian money in government(prob still in the Tories tho) better relations with EU countries, would have acted a lot quicker on Russia with sanctions, we wouldn’t be having a 54% increase of cost living for sure, it would be more inline with Europe and their 4%
Why the hell does the article’s author abbreviate “percent” as “pc”? Took me ages to figure out the first paragraph…
It is time workers in the UK realise they do the work, make the profits, keep the companies solvent, HAVE THE POWER. That it’s time to use that power! Don’t worry about the threat of unemployment, if you can’t feed your children or heat your house while working, what difference does it make?
Hopefully this time they finally learn to strike for lower prices instead of higher wages.
I hope they demand the removal of the four owners of the big newspapers – once they lose their influence, this country will be a much better place.
tories have been in power for the last 12 years…..
we knew what we were voting for.
The Telegraph wanted to wind the clock back to the 70’s back in 2016, well now they got it and we’re all having to suffer, well apart from their minted readers.
Yes. Fucking. Please.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Also posting a prediction that within a single day of the next protest happening the more *easily influenced* in this sub will be spouting anti protest rhetoric that wouldn’t look out of place in the Daily Mails comment section. And it will happen in half the time if “shock horror” a rich person’s property gets damaged.
We don’t have the collective bollocks and the government knows it
Except since the 1970s the value of your money has been halved, decimalisation was only part of the fiscal policy. All our public assets since have been plundered and sold, incremental gains for the vendors, increasing costs for the public. If not for covid our NHS would have gone further over the parapet into the maw of private equity. Some of those strikes were for a three day week, job sharing, more leisure time for the workers. However this terrified those interested in profits and Americans considered it communist. So they cut the power claimed lack of coal, despite the fact that the stations had to have 2 years supply. This cut the water, which was pumped. Support from the public collapsed as the movement was murdered by media. Easy to forget until 1918 only male landowners could vote. For less than a hundred years we have crawled into the light of reason, greed and lies to serve the minority risk reaping whirlwind from the rest.
Should have been striking since Brexit, but hey ho.
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[Non-paywall link](https://web.archive.org/web/20220410092422/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/04/10/wage-starved-britain-risks-nasty-return-1970s/)
They all said if I voted for Corbyn we’d be going back to the 70s but I didn’t realise that still held even if he didn’t win.
“Tesco has announced that store staff currently on £9.55 per hour will earn an hourly rate of £10.10 from July. That’s a chunky 5.8pc wage rise, which sounds pretty generous.”
The Telegraph.
That’s an extra 65p an hour – in two months time.
There’s a lot of people being balloted at the end of the month in my union, the strikes are coming.
Not since they convinced the masses that unions and strikes were bad, and that any one demanding or getting a bit more pay is the enemy it won’t.
So hang on instead of advocating for higher wages and increased unionisation the Torygraph is suggesting that the only way to combat the cost of living crisis is by loosening sanctions on Russia
Yes god yes. My parents would finally shut up about the 1970s being the worst time in human history because of Unions
Oh yay, even more disruption to everyday living. As if 2 years of my 20s disappearing wasn’t enough.
Good. I remember the 1970’s and the general support that the population gave workers throughout the winter of discontent and the strikes. In many ways it brought the country closer together.
Whether it will ever be supported like that again in our new modern rightward leaning but apathetic Britain I don’t know, but we could do with that level of solidarity we used to have.
Imagine if Jezza had of won – good job Murdoch made us vote against our own interests
Paywall. If I didn’t eat avocado on toast 3 meals a day with a coffee I’d be able to afford a Telegraph subscription and a house.
Riots will be a possibility too. The government will do their best to ignore strikes, especially in the private sector, those in poverty will not be able to ignore hunger though. With food banks struggling to meet demand and inflation continuing to rise, it might not take much to spark a riot.
What is about to happen in this country this year and next will be like what nobody has witnessed in a generation. Hopefully we can use it to bring about some real wholesale change and redistribute wealth to the people that actually labour for it. Hopefully we can all start to agree that we should stop voting these elitist cunts into power.
Wage starved Britain *needs* 1970s-style mass strikes.
Much harder for unions to call a strike nowadays. Much harder for the to get people to vote for one considering many are living hand to mouth and can’t afford a strike. Many if not most in low paid jobs aren’t in a union.
Well my employer has issued us a final pay offer of 2.1%. I’m not hanging about. That’s fucking degrading. See ya, fuckers.
This will never happen. Unfortunately we’ll all be to broke to assemble and have no energy to move.
They fought the 2019 election on a ‘change’ ticket and won. That tells you how shameless they are, and how gullible we are.
I bet you they fight 2024 blaming all of this on Brexit because ‘Labour prevented us getting a good deal’ – what’s scary is that they might just win with that.
All this and people still think Corbyn would have done worse. Like how? I wasn’t a fan but still he would have attended all the cobra meetings on covid, locked down sooner saving a lot of lifes, not sent the elderly who had covid back into the homes to end up spreading/killing many elderly in the homes, probably would have looked and even started universal basic income, NHS would have got all the help it needed, no partygate, as much as some want us back in the EU going against that would have been bad but at least he probably would have had a plan to make Brexit not as bad as we got, would be doing more on climate change so less relying on Russia, less/no Russian money in government(prob still in the Tories tho) better relations with EU countries, would have acted a lot quicker on Russia with sanctions, we wouldn’t be having a 54% increase of cost living for sure, it would be more inline with Europe and their 4%
Why the hell does the article’s author abbreviate “percent” as “pc”? Took me ages to figure out the first paragraph…
It is time workers in the UK realise they do the work, make the profits, keep the companies solvent, HAVE THE POWER. That it’s time to use that power! Don’t worry about the threat of unemployment, if you can’t feed your children or heat your house while working, what difference does it make?
Hopefully this time they finally learn to strike for lower prices instead of higher wages.
I hope they demand the removal of the four owners of the big newspapers – once they lose their influence, this country will be a much better place.
tories have been in power for the last 12 years…..
we knew what we were voting for.
The Telegraph wanted to wind the clock back to the 70’s back in 2016, well now they got it and we’re all having to suffer, well apart from their minted readers.
Yes. Fucking. Please.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Also posting a prediction that within a single day of the next protest happening the more *easily influenced* in this sub will be spouting anti protest rhetoric that wouldn’t look out of place in the Daily Mails comment section. And it will happen in half the time if “shock horror” a rich person’s property gets damaged.
We don’t have the collective bollocks and the government knows it
Except since the 1970s the value of your money has been halved, decimalisation was only part of the fiscal policy. All our public assets since have been plundered and sold, incremental gains for the vendors, increasing costs for the public. If not for covid our NHS would have gone further over the parapet into the maw of private equity. Some of those strikes were for a three day week, job sharing, more leisure time for the workers. However this terrified those interested in profits and Americans considered it communist. So they cut the power claimed lack of coal, despite the fact that the stations had to have 2 years supply. This cut the water, which was pumped. Support from the public collapsed as the movement was murdered by media. Easy to forget until 1918 only male landowners could vote. For less than a hundred years we have crawled into the light of reason, greed and lies to serve the minority risk reaping whirlwind from the rest.
Should have been striking since Brexit, but hey ho.