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A public sector worker who supports the strike? |
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12 | 16.44% |
A public sector worker who is against the strike? |
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6 | 8.22% |
A private sector worker who supports the strike? |
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16 | 21.92% |
A private sector worker who is against the strike? |
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31 | 42.47% |
Someone who couldn't care less. |
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8 | 10.96% |
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Also, I heard of a head teacher complaining that this change would make teachers work until 65 and it was a hard job. Now I have lots of teacher friends, and I wouldn't do the job, but thats personal choice. There are much harder jobs (both physically and mentally) where people regularly have to work to 65 and beyond. Boo hoo that you have to come in line with everyone else. |
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Look at a Govt. department the Face Changes but the backroom doesn't.
I wouldn't like to be a teacher at 65 at my old High school (rough as a badgers badger)
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Backroom staff aren't the policy makers though.
And i agree about teaching at 65, but I wouldn't want to be building at 65 either, or any number of other jobs. No one wants to be working at 65, but we've seen what happens to countries that say you can retire at 50 etc... |
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A selfish, irresponsible strike that purports to be about public sector pensions, (it isn't anything of the sort), isn't greatly supported by the people that will have to actually pay for those pensions. Hardly a revelation, is it? And the support for the strike by union membership is how much? I hope every public sector worker that doesn't go to work tomorrow fully realises that this is no noble strike, this is an tantrum thrown by a trade union system that no longer has a government in their pocket, union members are simply being expoloited, this action has nothing to do with any benefit to them. The TUC disgust me. Again. This is never going to happen. Ever. Unions long ago gave up any thoughts of workers rights, they are now self-interested political organisations that expolit their membership as cruelly as any bad boss could ever hope to.
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!00% in favour.Its about standing up for yourself against some very powerful forces.If you dont stand up they will be back for more---and more----and more.You may not win the battle but they at least they know you are not a pushover.Food for thought for them when they want the next bite.
But alls well.We are all in it together.Arent we?
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I can never work out how withdrawing your labour helps your cause-----The mining industry,which was a national industry tried with a lot more effort than this lot and where are they now?
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A current example would be train drivers.Well paid job and good luck to them,but automation will overtake them sooner rather than later.and the job will go.Strikes will make no difference either way.
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We do a lot of fantastic work within the business, between my safety rep and myself I know the work place is a lot safer and happier. |
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You can hardly compare the current strikes to that of an industry that was dwindling due to cheaper imported fossil fuels or north sea gas. Sadly those strikes were the swansong of a dying trade.
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