Strikes

Hindsight said:

Felixstowe: Dock workers strike for first time in 30 years

Staff at Felixstowe, which handles half of the country's container cargo, walk out for eight days.

www.bbc.co.uk

And so the General Strike rumbles along. Posties next weekend. Rail folk the week later. Nurses unions balloting on strike action shortly. Hope Liz has dusted down her best Thatcher impression for the Tory Party conference in September. But D Day for Starmer approaches too. How many of his MPs can he politically stand to be on the picket lines?

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Hindsight said:

Felixstowe: Dock workers strike for first time in 30 years

Staff at Felixstowe, which handles half of the country's container cargo, walk out for eight days.

www.bbc.co.uk

And so the General Strike rumbles along. Posties next weekend. Rail folk the week later. Nurses unions balloting on strike action shortly. Hope Liz has dusted down her best Thatcher impression for the Tory Party conference in September. But D Day for Starmer approaches too. How many of his MPs can he politically stand to be on the picket lines?

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Hindsight said:

Felixstowe: Dock workers strike for first time in 30 years

Staff at Felixstowe, which handles half of the country's container cargo, walk out for eight days.

www.bbc.co.uk

And so the General Strike rumbles along. Posties next weekend. Rail folk the week later. Nurses unions balloting on strike action shortly. Hope Liz has dusted down her best Thatcher impression for the Tory Party conference in September. But D Day for Starmer approaches too. How many of his MPs can he politically stand to be on the picket lines?

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ollie989898 said:

No matter what job I ever fall into, I will never go on strike. If something about your work upsets you that much, in my book you change jobs and do something else. People signing up for the roles they do, know full well the score at the outset. I will never agree with healthcare workers going on strike over their pay- nobody or certainly no one ever should elect to work in healthcare because of the money involved.

I see Hoyer are advertising for bulk HGV drivers to work for them with a starting salary of 40K PA plus all the bonuses and benefits involved. There are plenty of other jobs for people to slot into, going on strike solves nothing.

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DeeGee said:

It is high time that the really hard working people on the frontline of so many institutions from the NHS through to council employees, cleaners and care workers and so many other essential workers were paid a more realistic wage for what they do.

Far too much money is channelled into the trough in which too many fat pigs greedily put their snouts and both front trotters; so called ‘advisors’, consultants, board members and all the other parasites who ride along on the gravy train that is propelled, maintained and fuelled by the lowest paid members of society.

Much as I abhor some of the rhetoric of the Corbynistas, the archetypal mockney union leaders, and so many other hard left exponents: you have to admit that they really do have a valid case.

Whomsoever may win the battle to become our next PM (God help us all) they and their hare brained policies will deservedly face a massive tsunami of civil disorder during tcoming winter.

Unless there is a fundamental sea change in Tory policy; which we all know is highly unlikely; I really do fear for the future of civilised society in this country.

The Tories are blissfully sleepwalking into a storm the likes of which this country has not seen since the general strike of 1926.
But this time it is certain to be far more tumultuous.

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le bon paysan said:

What if you're in a job that you really enjoy and are committed to, but the management are taking hefty pay packets and dividends while offering you insufficient pay rises?

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ollie989898 said:

I just don't agree with strikes on principle.

Doctors and nurses refusing to turn in for work, the direct impact of which lands in whose lap? The public, that is who. It isn't morally justifiable in my view. If you are saying your salary is no longer adequate, what is stopping people from electing to choose another vocation? The country is crying out for people in virtually every industry- my question is, what is stopping you?

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czechmate said:

qualifications, training, experience THE MORTGAGE…

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BrianV said:

I'm not a religious chap at all but just recently I've started remembering my boring old bible classes at primary school regarding 7 disasters, well we've had covid, we've had natural disasters, we've got war, we are sure to have famine, civil unrest is around the corner, locusts or bugs, what next you may wonder?

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czechmate said:

qualifications, training, experience THE MORTGAGE…

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le bon paysan said:

Yes, I was thinking it's not to easy to walk away from a job you're good at if you've got a mortgage and a family. If free of responsibilities the world's your oyster.

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DeeGee said:

Truss?

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BUSINESS​

BrianV said:

More strikes to come?

BUSINESS​

Britain recorded its biggest fall in output in more than 300 years in 2020 when it faced the brunt of the COVID pandemic, as well as a larger decline than any other major economy, updated official figures showed. British consumer price inflation is set to peak at 18% - nine times the Bank of England's target - in early 2023, an economist at U.S. bank Citi said, raising his forecast once again in the light of the latest jump in energy prices.

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