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Originally Posted by Osem
The unions have done a great deal for working people since their creation. In some cases they've also handled things very badly and done a grave dis-service to those very same people. Lets not forget also that those who suffer from strikes tend to be entirely innocent - the worst suffering normally being the poor, the vulnerable and those in greatest need. I find that hard to swallow.
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....and the press will portray the strikers as being heartless and uncaring when it is in fact those same people who continually go above and beyond the call of duty to care and tend for the poor, the vulnerable and those in greatest need.
Modern day strikes aren't caused solely by trade unionists for political ends. The vast majority of strikes are as a result of a breakdown in negotiations. The people who don't work at the front line are every bit of culpable for allowing strikes to happen than those who have to make the sacrifice of withdrawing their labour.... but that doesn't make as good reading in the right wing press.