Strike 'have your say' pages - post them here!

catch "unpractical[sic] and blinkered"
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Submitted by catch on 16 July, 2008 - 09:35.

Reuters (no registration required)

http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2008/07/16/council-workers-strike-is-it-justified/

ftony "crews are for boats"
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16 July, 2008 - 10:50

not 'having my say' exactly, but check out this little beauty from the GMB leadership...

http://www.gmb.org.uk/shared_asp_files/GFSR.asp?NodeID=97201

(it's a PDF)

catch "unpractical[sic] and blinkered"
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16 July, 2008 - 11:11
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Rob Ray "Used to be Saii"
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16 July, 2008 - 11:48

Snap

Jack "In it for spite"
Posts: 10048 Joined: 22-09-03 Location: Brighton
16 July, 2008 - 12:28

While the GMB one sounds asap, isn't that them just going through the legal loopholes rather than actual advise? Given the GMB, i'd assume the actual advice is radically different for each region.

catch "unpractical[sic] and blinkered"
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16 July, 2008 - 13:57

I actually liked the "I was scared by the scary picket line so I went home" advice.

catch "unpractical[sic] and blinkered"
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16 July, 2008 - 14:06

BBC: http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5111&edition=1&ttl=20080716150851

Ed "Cocaine socialist"
Posts: 1038 Joined: 01-10-03 Location: Brighton
18 July, 2008 - 00:20

I particularly liked this anti-strike argument from the BBC site:

Quote:
If we could ALL go on strike what then?

WHAT THEN!?!? eek

weeler "The wind that shakes Nathan Barley"
Posts: 6545 Joined: 25-09-05 Location: Dublin
18 July, 2008 - 00:41

It would be anarchy surely? tongue

welshboy "...a stain upon the heroic history of anarchism."
Posts: 366 Joined: 11-05-06 Location: Weegie Land
18 July, 2008 - 16:58

This is a corker.

Quote:
The saddest thing about these strikes has to be that hardly anyone has noticed let alone been affected - and there are supposedly 600,000 of them ! Council workers are totally irrelevant to the lives of most people. They are just useless parasites.

James, Oldham

BBC 'Have Your Say' is fucking amazing sometimes. The way people can begin sounding vaguely rational then within the space of a sentence are calling for hoodies to be hanged and lesbian al-quaida terrorists to be shot into the sun smile I particularly like the way this guy goes from lamenting the lack of impact of the strikes to calling public sector workers parasites in a single breath. Classic.

welshboy "...a stain upon the heroic history of anarchism."
Posts: 366 Joined: 11-05-06 Location: Weegie Land
18 July, 2008 - 17:00

Oh and by the way I assume you lot have seen the Twat-O-Tron.