Good for them. I for one will be supportive if they do chose to strike for better pay and conditions.
I think the only way forward at the moment would be a General Strike to show the government we understand the distain they hold for the public. We need fundamental change in Britain otherwise we will never escape this cycle of rising costs and stagnating wages.
12 years of Tory rule has lost the UK almost 50 years of progress.
Edit:.. actually, it’s probably a lot more then 50, thinking of all the public services they’ve sold off or destroyed and attacks on workers rights and erosion of civil liberties.
They’ve already forced us into another Winter of Discontent. We need another Thatcher to put these red unions in their place.
I’ll be out waving my red flag in my wee official high vis vest if we strike again which seems very likely as their “improved offer” is seemingly the same with different wording.
Gonna get to a point where every day of the week there will be a different strike all because our needs are not being met while all these pricks are the top are raking it in.
Join a union to support the growing fight against the cost of living.
The government will either ignore it or make it easier for striking workers to be replaced by agency workers. Mass strikes are needed and welcomed but we are not dealing with a government who cares one tiny iota about workers or workers’ rights, so we know that strikers will be presented as holding the country to ransom and as a menace.
Cant really blame brexit it was shit b4 and it’s shit now
I could end this overnight with a 15% payrise and a minor reduction of working hours.
But god *fucking* forbid wages keep up with inflation. People don’t work for the fun of it. Pay them.
Lecturers will be walking out at some point, too (I believe there is currently a vote going on).
That one is after having pensions cut due to a deficit at the start of the pandemic, and not reversing the change now it has a surplus (among other things).
Genuine question, could the whole “do no harm” thing interfere with doctors strikes?
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Good for them. I for one will be supportive if they do chose to strike for better pay and conditions.
I think the only way forward at the moment would be a General Strike to show the government we understand the distain they hold for the public. We need fundamental change in Britain otherwise we will never escape this cycle of rising costs and stagnating wages.
12 years of Tory rule has lost the UK almost 50 years of progress.
Edit:.. actually, it’s probably a lot more then 50, thinking of all the public services they’ve sold off or destroyed and attacks on workers rights and erosion of civil liberties.
They’ve already forced us into another Winter of Discontent. We need another Thatcher to put these red unions in their place.
I’ll be out waving my red flag in my wee official high vis vest if we strike again which seems very likely as their “improved offer” is seemingly the same with different wording.
Gonna get to a point where every day of the week there will be a different strike all because our needs are not being met while all these pricks are the top are raking it in.
Join a union to support the growing fight against the cost of living.
https://www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union
The government will either ignore it or make it easier for striking workers to be replaced by agency workers. Mass strikes are needed and welcomed but we are not dealing with a government who cares one tiny iota about workers or workers’ rights, so we know that strikers will be presented as holding the country to ransom and as a menace.
Cant really blame brexit it was shit b4 and it’s shit now
I could end this overnight with a 15% payrise and a minor reduction of working hours.
But god *fucking* forbid wages keep up with inflation. People don’t work for the fun of it. Pay them.
Lecturers will be walking out at some point, too (I believe there is currently a vote going on).
That one is after having pensions cut due to a deficit at the start of the pandemic, and not reversing the change now it has a surplus (among other things).
Genuine question, could the whole “do no harm” thing interfere with doctors strikes?