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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Those strikes which were caused by the previous Labour government enlarging and empowering a militant public sector you mean?
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Yeah they'd be the ones...
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Originally Posted by Chris
Of course there were, there were loads. Funnily enough the Union barons didn't like it when Thatcher went to war on their little fiefdoms, and they put up a fight. But after the miners' strike ended, there was a steady decline in days lost to industrial action. Until Labour got in of course, and began laying the foundations for the upswing we are now seeing.
A blinkered, self-serving attitude we fully expect to hear from dyed-in-the-wool trade unionists.
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Yep - to hell with the consequences, however severe. The supreme irony being that, in the long term, those who suffered most were usually the ones who went on strike.