Tuesday, Apr 22, 2008
Summer of Strikes starting Thursday
BBC: Week of strikes
Three strikes in a week as refuse workers, teachers and oil refinery staff all plan to walk out.
Posted by yoyo1 @ 03:33 PM (635 views) Add Comment
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1. planning4acrash said...
Bring it on, we are all getting paycuts now. The council i work for agreed 2.2% colleagues didn't seem too concerned when i told them that it was a 2% plus pay cut!
2. need-a-crash said...
We really are going back to the 1970's!
3. hpwatcher said...
@planning4acrash
With inflation at 9%, 2.2% is a very definitely a pay cut!
Great! Just like the 70's all over again!
4. cornishman said...
The Winter of Discontent appears to have started even before we've had the summer.
Once this new generation gets the hang of strike action things will get interesting, to say the least.
5. mrmickey said...
I'm amazed it's taken this long for the UK public to wake up I thought they'd been putting something in the water. We are a very domesticated bunch in this country anywhere else and they'd be rioting in the streets with a government that hammers the poor on tax and fuel prices rising on a daily basis.
6. nobby1963 said...
You wait and watch - Yes we are moving towards the Summer of Discontent - but with Oil at $118 a Barrel , what is in store for the Winter of Discontents Fuel Bills? I have not had a pay rise for over 2 years now and in my figures True Inflation is about 9% , so I am working for Less and definately paying out more!! I am like the rest of this site and just want somewhere affordable to live? Every flipping month I live in hope?
7. nobby1963 said...
Oh and bye the way if we are going back to the 1970's - I aint gonna wear Flairs , ok?
8. Micasasucasa said...
The reason that a lot of people seem fairly content is because they have been living beyond their means on cheap credit. New cars, big holidays, plasma teles etc.
9. malct said...
nobby - if you don't wear flares you might not be allowed to buy food!
or get in a taxi. or drive the to kids to school, or vote.
what's wrong with flares anyway?
10. Orwell said...
Well, what do you expect with the cost of living these days?
Once this new generation gets the hang of strike action things will get interesting, to say the least.
Too true Cornishman
11. Slysmiles said...
The 70's will be fondly remembered as the good times before all this is finished.
12. yoyo1 said...
nobby
don't be shy, i just saw a snooker player on TV sporting a 'bay city rollers' waistcoat.