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Originally Posted by ashgray
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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You've made a bit of an assumption there matey and not a little patronising. I've never been a 'boss', my father was a manual labourer all his working life and couldn't read/write until he was in his 40's. I work solely for myself and have never employed anyone but before that I was employed just like you. My wife was also a member of Unison for several years until she gave up her job to be with the children. We're hardly anti-union types and if I were an employee on strike I'd wave my banner as high as I could but certainly wouldn't intimidate anyone.
Anyway, presumably then by saying it's a rough world etc. you condone what some police did when dealing so aggressively with some of the striking miners and you wouldn't object if a group of strike breakers decided to get tough with a picket line stopping them exercising their right to go to work? You can't have it both ways i.e strikers can be as aggressive as they like in support of their opinions but nobody else is allowed to do likewise.
I notice you have no comment about the other entirely innocent people who suffer dreadfully as a result of strikes but then you seem only to care about one group of people and one set of rights.