Well, there are a set of stages, that society will go through, as people get more and more desperate and feel more unappreciated, and see how unfairly wealth is distributed, with companies they work for making shitloads and none of that moving down to employees; and it normally starts with talking to your employer, and writing to your MP to help, and could possibly end with bricks and petrol-bombs being thrown around.
Strikes just make everything worse.
A change in government.
Definition of divide and conquer
: to make a group of people disagree and fight with one another so that they will not join together against one His military strategy is to divide and conquer.
People and workers have been left with no other option. Strikes were inevitable and are entirely justified.
Great stuff. What’s your take on Europe Mick?…..
The answer is spiraling downwards into the narcissistic-hellsphere which is clearly the direction most of the toxic presiding political-journalistic-business-ruling class would like.
The honest answer is ‘I’m not willing to be slightly inconvenienced to ensure you get a fair wage so just shut up, be poor and don’t strike’
I’m in the public sector. We haven’t even had our formal 22/23 offer in yet but given that it’s a “fund it from your own budget” and we’re skint, it’s not going to be great.
Today someone said to me “Why don’t we just cut some of these massive projects and fund the staff then? We don’t work as volunteers”. And how do you argue with that?
The answer is the way they strike in Japan but Mick Lynch has been asked about that and it turns out it’s illegal to do, so the answer is to make that form of striking legal.
The usual response is “Get a better job.” or “Work harder!”, as if they are already not working hard or that getting a better job is just so easy (and that there are enough better jobs for everyone). The simple truth is that a lot of people are just annoyed at being inconvenienced, which is understandable but this is the time for all workers to come together to demand better. It should not be “Why should they get paid more when I am not?” but “Why are we all not getting paid more?”
“Stop being greedy!”
– gammons
The fact that there are people questioning if strikes work proves that the Tory manipulation mill is working strongly. Brainwashing people into accepting oppression.
Obviously the Tories are just pushing the envelope with how much they can get away with before admitting that a problem exists and doing something (usually the bare minimum but still), but it’s almost as if they want full-blown rioting at this point. Probably to justify using massive amount of police brutality to literally beat the ‘plebs they were born to rule over’ into submission, but the way I see it, something has to give eventually.
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Well, there are a set of stages, that society will go through, as people get more and more desperate and feel more unappreciated, and see how unfairly wealth is distributed, with companies they work for making shitloads and none of that moving down to employees; and it normally starts with talking to your employer, and writing to your MP to help, and could possibly end with bricks and petrol-bombs being thrown around.
Strikes just make everything worse.
A change in government.
Definition of divide and conquer
: to make a group of people disagree and fight with one another so that they will not join together against one His military strategy is to divide and conquer.
I imagine [this](https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/11/no-ticket-to-ride-japanese-bus-drivers-strike-by-giving-free-rides-okayama) would be popular with everyone (apart from those in charge and the shareholders).
People and workers have been left with no other option. Strikes were inevitable and are entirely justified.
Great stuff. What’s your take on Europe Mick?…..
The answer is spiraling downwards into the narcissistic-hellsphere which is clearly the direction most of the toxic presiding political-journalistic-business-ruling class would like.
The honest answer is ‘I’m not willing to be slightly inconvenienced to ensure you get a fair wage so just shut up, be poor and don’t strike’
I’m in the public sector. We haven’t even had our formal 22/23 offer in yet but given that it’s a “fund it from your own budget” and we’re skint, it’s not going to be great.
Today someone said to me “Why don’t we just cut some of these massive projects and fund the staff then? We don’t work as volunteers”. And how do you argue with that?
The answer is the way they strike in Japan but Mick Lynch has been asked about that and it turns out it’s illegal to do, so the answer is to make that form of striking legal.
The usual response is “Get a better job.” or “Work harder!”, as if they are already not working hard or that getting a better job is just so easy (and that there are enough better jobs for everyone). The simple truth is that a lot of people are just annoyed at being inconvenienced, which is understandable but this is the time for all workers to come together to demand better. It should not be “Why should they get paid more when I am not?” but “Why are we all not getting paid more?”
“Stop being greedy!”
– gammons
The fact that there are people questioning if strikes work proves that the Tory manipulation mill is working strongly. Brainwashing people into accepting oppression.
Obviously the Tories are just pushing the envelope with how much they can get away with before admitting that a problem exists and doing something (usually the bare minimum but still), but it’s almost as if they want full-blown rioting at this point. Probably to justify using massive amount of police brutality to literally beat the ‘plebs they were born to rule over’ into submission, but the way I see it, something has to give eventually.