http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35806743
Quelle surprise!
Why is it you do not hear about private sector strikes very often?
Quelle surprise!
Why is it you do not hear about private sector strikes very often?
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Another bunch of public sector employess on strike.....
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vegster
Sanity Clause
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Because there are considerably less union members in the private sector these days due to the erosion of union power by legislation.
Cosmic Joker
The Motorik
Because the Government isn't trying to squeeze the private sector out of existence?
Or also because workers in many parts of the private sector have lost many of their employment rights and can be sacked for farting at the wrong time?
On the other hand, rail strikes are largely private sector strikes.
... and considerably fewer manufacturers which were the industries heavily unionised. Where were the strikes in the 70s? Motor industry and the press. The former's gone and, as Vegster has pointed out, unions have lost their clout there
TWOCHOICEStom
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Sounds fair enough to me.
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nicko31
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Michael Gove fallout continues...
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Yes, very much this. In other news, quite why a chunky reduction in disabled people's allowances can't be used to fund tax cuts for the wealthy is beyond me.
mune ni kamome
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And if we leave the eu there will be no workers rights at all and zero hours contracts will be mandatory
GT49er
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.....oh yes, and don't forget the pound will drop to near zero, we won't be able to buy cars from Germany, we won't be allowed to sell anything to anyone in Europe, the economy will collapse, there'll be plagues of locusts, and - best of all - some of the people who say they'll leave Britain if we leave the EU will actually do it!
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We know that won't happen, but with endless right-wing government, especially when Scotland buggers off, workers rights will be obliterated.
GT49er
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Well, of course it won't happen - although I'd love the last bit to come to pass! No reason for workers' rights to be further reduced - that's largely a threat to persuade us to vote 'In'.
Hastings gull
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Beach Hut
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Indeed no college for Mini today, *******s
W.C.
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It's a great shame we don't hear less from you complaining about what the next man is up to.
Albumen
Don't wait for me!
Because nobody cares about unimportant jobs?
larus
Well-known member
Exactly.
In the same way that by not joining the Euro we'd lose out in inward investment , the City would relocate to Frankfurt, etc. Nice to see how that all turned out. Hmm, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy - bet they're loving the benefits to brings to their economies. Another good fact : the Eurozone economy is STILL BELOW the 2008 pre-crisis level.
Because your Government is not waging a permanent war against the private sector, whereas teachers and junior doctors (among others) are constantly being picked on by your bullying Government, which then cheered-on by most of the tabloids (themselves by obnoxious multi-millionaire Tory business tycoons).
Because since Thatcher's premiership, the Tories have thrived on confrontation, rather than consensus; Ministerial diktat rather than meaningful dialogue; coercion rather than co-operation; punishment rather than partnership; promoting divide-and-rule between different sections of our society, with public sector vs private sector being one obvious example (along with skivers versus strivers, shirkers versus workers, etc).
lawros left foot
Glory hunting since 1969
Well said Sir
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