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Originally Posted by Osem
I thought I'd made that point clear already. Having lived through the miners' strikes I can fully understand that feelings run high but that does not excuse aggressive intimidation or violence. How would you feel about a large group of workers vehemently opposed to any such action resorting to that sort of behaviour with a group of strikers?
My feelings run high over all sorts of issues but that doesn't entitle me to aggressively bully/intimidate others whose views differ from mine.
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yes but you have the attitude of a boss,i have the attitude of a common working man,i was brought up to believe in the power of the unions.
it is the strike breakers that undermine the power of the unions what are the strikers supposed to do stand on the picket line and beg the strike breakers not to go into to work.
I'm sorry but its a rough old world old world out there and sometimes you have to fight and get rough and in my opinion if you strike break you are the lowest of the low and are fair game.
As i said your a boss i'm a worker you wouldn't understand.
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Originally Posted by Chris
That's your prerogative. But you can only hold that view because you (incorrectly) believe that everyone else is somehow obliged to follow you out to the picket line. They aren't. They have democratic rights the same as you do.
If a few more of your union bretheren had borne that in mind, then perhaps fewer people would have been injured or killed during the worst strikes of the 1970s and 80s.
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Please enlighten me how many people died or were injured during the strikes of the seventies with proof please.
oh yes and i do know of the taxi driver that died during the miners strike and i don't condone it one bit.
also would you also tell me how many people died at work before the trade unions.