> But responding to the suggestion, union leader Mr Lynch told ITV News: “That would be a suppression of human rights”.
No it isn’t.
> “Every person in the world under the international labour organisation conventions, which is a UN type body, has the right to withdraw their labour and withhold their labour through lawful strike action.
You have the right to withdraw **your** labour. You do not have the right to force others to stop work.
> to ensure that the law is firmly on the passengers side
I like how the law is “on the passenger’s side” when it means taking even more money from working class people, but is never actually “on the passenger’s side” when it comes to fare increases or station facilities or train punctuality or literally anything else.
No it isn’t.
You have the human right to not be a slave, ie to not work if you don’t wish to.
You do not have a human right to force someone else to work or not work.
It’s a moot point. This fascist government has proved it doesn’t care about human rights.
Ah man, don’t tell the government that. It’ll get them all wet.
Removing human rights and abusing people is the only thing that gets there decrepit gammony conservative voter base erect. So they will absolutely do it.
This lot and human rights don’t exist in the same dimension.
I don’t understand how it’s a suppression of human rights, you can still strike and cost the company a lot of money in hiring agency workers but it won’t be at the expense of inconveniencing 1000s of people
What human right does it suppress?
Business as usual in this absolute factory reject dildo of a country.
Realistically how could you actually stop strikes, if you didn’t want to meet demands? Even if unions did not exist, staff could still organise amongst themselves on social media or something to all universally “have Covid” on that day, for instance. And agency workers could not realistically replace the majority of striking workers. The government speaks like this as a populist policy, but they couldn’t do it even if they wanted to.
Alternative title – fascist government meddling in affairs of private business to suppress human rights.
I mean, the unions are almost powerless anyway because of what anti-union legislation Thatcher introduced many years ago.
It’s why you only ever hear of the railway workers striking as unions everywhere else are gutless.
What about my human right to travel to my job/doctors appointment/school/relative etc etc..
RMT are thugs in suits
From the govt that desperately wants to bring in its own ‘Bill of Rights’ to diverge/ignore the actual human rights given to us by ECHR????…..this can’t be true, I am shocked and stunned!?
Absolute bunch of cunts
What Bozo and his gang of dribbling cretins need to realise is that you can have strikes, or you can have riots. Take your pick.
THAT HAS LITERALLY BEEN THE WHOLE POINT.
No EU – no need to implement EU human rights laws especially the employment laws. Which means that the working class will have to work even harder for less whilst the CEOs will get unlimited bonuses. They are already undoing the bonus cap as we speak. This is the bonfire of EU laws they keep talking about. Does it make sense yet?
‘Human Rights’, what utter tosh. Yes they have the right to withdraw their labour, but the employer also has the right to do whatever they can to try and continue to provide a service, which can mean bringing in a cheaper workforce and then lay off the striking workforce. There are so many workers rights in this country to protect workers from been exploited, minimum wage, working hours directive, paid leave, maternity leave, paid holidays, pensions, etc. But any business will do the same thing when wages get too high, they will make cutbacks, and the first thing that gets cutback, is the workforce.
Good job the UK government is already planning to erase human rights entirely, then!
So actually caring about the consumer and requiring a least a basic service during “strikes” is a human rights abuse. WTF are these people on
The road to serfdom
Sounds right up the tories street
Hopefully people will take to the streets. I read that a majority are behind the strikers. Time to show it.
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> But responding to the suggestion, union leader Mr Lynch told ITV News: “That would be a suppression of human rights”.
No it isn’t.
> “Every person in the world under the international labour organisation conventions, which is a UN type body, has the right to withdraw their labour and withhold their labour through lawful strike action.
You have the right to withdraw **your** labour. You do not have the right to force others to stop work.
> to ensure that the law is firmly on the passengers side
I like how the law is “on the passenger’s side” when it means taking even more money from working class people, but is never actually “on the passenger’s side” when it comes to fare increases or station facilities or train punctuality or literally anything else.
No it isn’t.
You have the human right to not be a slave, ie to not work if you don’t wish to.
You do not have a human right to force someone else to work or not work.
It’s a moot point. This fascist government has proved it doesn’t care about human rights.
Ah man, don’t tell the government that. It’ll get them all wet.
Removing human rights and abusing people is the only thing that gets there decrepit gammony conservative voter base erect. So they will absolutely do it.
This lot and human rights don’t exist in the same dimension.
I don’t understand how it’s a suppression of human rights, you can still strike and cost the company a lot of money in hiring agency workers but it won’t be at the expense of inconveniencing 1000s of people
What human right does it suppress?
Business as usual in this absolute factory reject dildo of a country.
Realistically how could you actually stop strikes, if you didn’t want to meet demands? Even if unions did not exist, staff could still organise amongst themselves on social media or something to all universally “have Covid” on that day, for instance. And agency workers could not realistically replace the majority of striking workers. The government speaks like this as a populist policy, but they couldn’t do it even if they wanted to.
Alternative title – fascist government meddling in affairs of private business to suppress human rights.
I mean, the unions are almost powerless anyway because of what anti-union legislation Thatcher introduced many years ago.
It’s why you only ever hear of the railway workers striking as unions everywhere else are gutless.
What about my human right to travel to my job/doctors appointment/school/relative etc etc..
RMT are thugs in suits
From the govt that desperately wants to bring in its own ‘Bill of Rights’ to diverge/ignore the actual human rights given to us by ECHR????…..this can’t be true, I am shocked and stunned!?
Absolute bunch of cunts
What Bozo and his gang of dribbling cretins need to realise is that you can have strikes, or you can have riots. Take your pick.
THAT HAS LITERALLY BEEN THE WHOLE POINT.
No EU – no need to implement EU human rights laws especially the employment laws. Which means that the working class will have to work even harder for less whilst the CEOs will get unlimited bonuses. They are already undoing the bonus cap as we speak. This is the bonfire of EU laws they keep talking about. Does it make sense yet?
‘Human Rights’, what utter tosh. Yes they have the right to withdraw their labour, but the employer also has the right to do whatever they can to try and continue to provide a service, which can mean bringing in a cheaper workforce and then lay off the striking workforce. There are so many workers rights in this country to protect workers from been exploited, minimum wage, working hours directive, paid leave, maternity leave, paid holidays, pensions, etc. But any business will do the same thing when wages get too high, they will make cutbacks, and the first thing that gets cutback, is the workforce.
Good job the UK government is already planning to erase human rights entirely, then!
So actually caring about the consumer and requiring a least a basic service during “strikes” is a human rights abuse. WTF are these people on
The road to serfdom
Sounds right up the tories street
Hopefully people will take to the streets. I read that a majority are behind the strikers. Time to show it.