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Originally Posted by Alan Fry
They will still need to be staffed!
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You know what, you are falling into the right-wingers trap, if we all have stong unions then we we will have the benifits of Tube Drivers, go and john a union and get striking!!!
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By advocating union militancy you are indeed falling into the right-wingers' trap. Blatantly politically motivated or totally unreasonable strikes simply strengthen public support for stronger legislation, which isn't really required but could do with being tidied up.
One really big part that could do with tidying up is the ability by unions to toss previous agreements out of the window and strike to change them.
You also forgot that to get striking requires a fairly closed shop or a certain barrier to being replaced which for many doesn't exist. People who strike themselves stupid simply make themselves unemployed, either through forcing their employer to fold or to downsize and make them redundant.
The alternative is of course that people do indeed get their pay rises, and the costs of everything go up to cover those pay rises, then people demand more pay rises to cover the cost of their wage inflation, etc, etc.
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Originally Posted by Alan Fry
They will still need to be staffed!
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By people far more easily replaced than tube drivers. Excellent news for everyone bar the tube drivers, and given there are not many of them and millions of people they inconvenience and businesses they cost millions every time they strike you'll have to forgive me for not caring less about their fate. They've made the rod for their own backs with their wage demands which have made the numbers for replacing them with automatic systems add up all the more quickly.