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Tube Strikes: Right or Wrong?

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    Tube Strikes: Right or Wrong?

    They're on the warpath again! I do support the right to strike, some folk need some sort of last resort, but asking for beefy pay increases, when the economy is obviously dented? FFS, etc.

    #2
    Always wrong. Hate the bastards, with a passion.

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      #3
      Perfectly within their rights to fight for what they deserve.
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        #4
        If they don't like it they should seek alternative employment, not hold people to ransom including the public. I hope they get nothing.
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          #5
          Wrong since abject poverty was more or less banished and poor working conditions improved. One of the only places where I can think of where striking might be warranted today is for farm workers. I don't know whey those lowly paid feckers don't go on strike. Minimum wage should be more like £15k to protect those dozy cnuts, which even that is obscene when you think an unsackable GP is on around £125 K - £250 K.

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            #6
            the whole london underground system needs modernising... and automatic trains
            Coffee's for closers

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              #7
              Originally posted by Bob Dalek View Post
              They're on the warpath again! I do support the right to strike, some folk need some sort of last resort, but asking for beefy pay increases, when the economy is obviously dented? FFS, etc.
              I'll be happy for them to strike - as long as Bob Crow agrees to pay my invoice while they are out!

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                #8
                Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
                the whole london underground system needs modernising... and automatic trains

                I agree totally and was arguing this idea 10 years ago. No drivers would be needed then, and trains will definitely not go on strike.
                Drivers are very well paid at the moment and with great pensions, so this strike, as usual, is inexcusable. This is just more evidence that what Thatcher started in neutering the unions in the 80s should have been continued, and hopefully the Tories will have a plan to do just that after 2010.

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                  #9
                  They can do what they like - I never use it. Too scared.
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Cyberman View Post
                    Drivers are very well paid at the moment and with great pensions, so this strike, as usual, is inexcusable.
                    RTFA. It's the maintenance workers going on strike, not the drivers.

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