Massive Strikes in the UK Planned

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  1. ~Zen~

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    The PM himself has issued a stark warning to all Brits.

    Downing Street says it will be a very DIFFICULT DAY for ordinary citizens as teachers, train drivers, civil servants, university lecturers, bus drivers and security guards all go on strike.

    In the UK Guardian News they state:

    "We know that there will be significant disruption given the scale of the strike action that is taking place tomorrow and that will be very difficult for the public trying to go about their daily lives."

    We are upfront that this will disrupt people’s lives and that’s why we think negotiations rather than picket lines are the right approach."

    Sure they don't want picket lines, but surely they don't want to hear to complainst of millions they have screwed with such failed policies as Brexit and the strangeness of governance under the BJ regime.

    Good luck to the UK!
     
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    Well you Brits want to be separate from the world at large, and this seems to be a result of that.

    In other reporting (From ITV) it is said:

    The UK is facing the largest scale strike day in over a decade on Wednesday, as half a million workers plan industrial action expected to spark widespread disruption.

    Teachers, train drivers, civil servants, university lecturers, bus drivers and security guards from seven trade unions will all walk out on Wednesday, 1 February.

    Picket lines will be mounted outside schools, train stations, universities and Government departments and rallies will be held across the country.

    On the same day, protests will be held across the country against the Government’s controversial plans for a new law on minimum service levels during strikes.

    Unions have dubbed it the “anti-strik    e bill”, saying it could lead to workers, who legally vote to strike, being sacked.

    The mass industrial action over pay, jobs and conditions should send a clear message to the Government that it cannot continue to ignore, says the head of the TUC, Paul Nowak.
     
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    Train drivers also!
     
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    Yes, "oh we only get 39 bank holidays per year, 6 weeks of summer off, sick time, pension, health care.".....come take any one of those jobs here and you'll see how labor is treated in the States...it ain't pretty....
     
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    I am fairly certain the average Brit does not receive all these benefits.
     
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    Oh, I may have exaggerated a bit, maybe I was thinking about the French....
     
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  15. wilsjane

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    We have suffered for years as a result of wishy washy governments allowing us to send all our money to China and devalue our workforces.
    Now we have no jobs, while China owns 30% of London property. To me, the last straw was them buying Odeon. Around 400 freeholds, with an average value of 31 million each. I doubt that anyone in government even knew.

    Donald Trump should emigrate to the UK, I would arrange the brass band at Heathrow to welcome him.
    However, when he finds out that the UK prime minister lives in a terraced house and has to feed Larry out of a salary that is less than many managers at Tesco's earn, he will probably want to run as far away from us as possible. The single unarmed police officer guarding his house would certainly be the last straw.
     
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    Obviously British PMs have other ways of making massive amounts of money tax free, so serving as PM is only about abusing the power to stay in power.
     
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    China are the only country given continuing and deliberate exemption from all the environmental laws that stop manufacturing being a viable business in any other country. Also their shipping costs are next to nothing regardless of how far around the world their goods are transported - harming the environment much more than home-produced goods would.

    And it's worth noting that in the early stages of these strikes being forewarned, each union leader would be on the news saying about how disappointed they were that most workers did not support going on strike, but they needed to get behind their union leaders. In other words, these strikes weren't agreed by the leaders because of calls for them to happen from the rank and file. The leaders wanted the strikes to happen, and pressured the rank and file to show solidarity with them. Offering the hope of more pay even though each of these industries are in the last stages of previous pay deals that had already been agreed and despite the fact that yes, everyone likes to be paid more and many other people deserve to be paid more. Like the modern day slaves that this and other countries welcome with open arms, those who sweep the floor of railway stations and deliver take-away food and groceries for Deliveroo, Just Eat and Gorillas.

    What this is really about is that the union leaders have been instructed to make all this happen so that the World Economic Forum can come along and say "well, if you all agree to our way of living sustainably and live by our rules, all these problems will go away".
     
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    Not all of them did and particularly not in local councillors.
    Because the pay is so low while in opposition, they need a career, particularly to afford to live in London, where rents start from about £3,000 per month.

    We all know about Tony Blair (Tony Blabbermouth as I called him) charging £1,000 an hour to attend a party and more than double that if he needed to speak.
    But he was a very rare exception, not to mention a completely self opinionated idiot.
     
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    Actually, many countries exempt many industries in the goal of 'economic growth' or 'security' and this practice has had disastrous results.
     
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