Strike fatigue.

[LadyOnArooftop]

Anyone else suffering from strike fatigue? I see the teachers have now joined the picket party. That 18 month jolly they enjoyed during lockdown has given them a taste of avoiding those pesky kids! I'm told that some are struggling so much that in order to pay their mortgages they're having to use food banks. I'm not quite sure food banks were set up to subsidise mortgage payments...
As for those striking nurses, i'd have more sympathy for them if they weren't on picket lines singing, larking about and encouraging motorists to honk their horns. While inside those hospitals there will be patients talking their last breaths listening to that cacophony.

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

It's a tough old job working till 3pm and then having to do some 'marking'. Thankfully there's the 13+ weeks annual holiday to help them recover.

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

I see firefighters are the latest union voting to jump on the strike bandwagon.
Workers demanding inflation-busting pay rises... I'm reminded of what Neil Kinnock once said - "We're creating a nation of i'm alright Jacks"...

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

Why am I banging on about strikes? I'm glad you asked, because i've been wondering that myself lately. I'll have to have a think about it when I get the time... Years ago, when the dockers were on strike, a striking worker was being interviewed. When it was pointed out to him that there would be food shortages in the shops, his reply was " If we don't eat - no one eats". I was a young socialist at the time and that comment rocked me to the core. Perhaps that was the beginning...

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

The government has the food shortages covered, pick something else to strike about. Lol

Half the forum is on strike! Many read, but few contribute. Perhaps they're shy. But it's their internet they can do as they please.
I, however, shall continue to dole out my utterances, my forum needs me!

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

No one went on strike when they were getting furlough payments, funny that?
Maybe people got accustomed to being paid to sit at home on their arse all day nibbling biscuits and drinking coffee. But now having to go out to work they want a pay rise, yes, more dosh! Have we become a nation of "I'm alright Jacks"? Quite possibly.

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

I'm surprised the striking junior doctors haven't played the food bank card.
Don't get me wrong. Doctors should be paid a hell of a lot more that they're getting... but striking is not the answer. Because it's clear now, the medical profession is no longer a vocation, the hippocratic oath and all that... It's just a job, with prestige.

 

[Dropship]

Nowadays the quacks have been largely replaced by 'Doctor Internet' anyway because we can google our symptoms and end up knowing more about ailments than them, and keep tabs on whether they're diagnosing and treating us right..
The only thing quacks are needed for is to sign our prescriptions..

 

[Moriarty]

Teachers are simply child minders for the state these days.

The school curriculum these days is a joke.

I mean really, they have classes promoting the "Gender Rainbow" and the "Genderbread Person".. really..

The Genderbread Person.

Read it and weep.

 

[Dropship]

People have always got the option to homeschool their kids themselves to keep them out of the clutches of the State School Brainwashing system.
Most of my teachers were useless but luckily my mate Johnny had a beautiful set of childrens illustrated encyclopaedias and I used to spend hours in his house reading them..

 

[Dropship]

Most teachers are godless lefty pinko commies anyway..

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

They're striking on Cup Final day... targeting the working-class! How are the poor fans supposed to get from Manchester to the game? Then again, is football working-class? and considering what the union leaders earn are they working-class? The class war is a very grey area these days...

 

[Dropship]

They're striking on Cup Final day... targeting the working-class! How are the poor fans supposed to get from Manchester to the game?..

The money-grubbing scrounging strikers are too dumb to realise they're scoring own goals by alienating the public against them..

 

[Raining_Roses]

I don't necessarily disagree with the strikes, yet I don't agree with them either. In agreement, hardly anyone has had a pay rise over the past few years, yet prices are rising astronomically. How are we even meant to keep up with any semblance of a normal life if we can't keep up with the basic cost of living?
In disagreement, it's always the lower classes that will be affected by the strikes, especially the teachers, travel and NHS strikes. When they go on strike, the whole country comes to a standstill. Many parents rely on their children going to school so they can work, but teachers seem to be able to pick and chose when they work. Same with the trains, who I can't understand why they're striking- they don't get paid badly and it's not exactly gruelling work.
The NHS- I can understand it, they get a cr@p wage, horrible job (they have to deal with sick people) and the hours are just silly. But if our government could manage the funds properly and stopped wasting it on corporate rubbish and 'inclusion' propaganda, they wouldn't need to strike.

 

[Moriarty]

I don't necessarily disagree with the strikes, yet I don't agree with them either. In agreement, hardly anyone has had a pay rise over the past few years, yet prices are rising astronomically. How are we even meant to keep up with any semblance of a normal life if we can't keep up with the basic cost of living?
In disagreement, it's always the lower classes that will be affected by the strikes, especially the teachers, travel and NHS strikes. When they go on strike, the whole country comes to a standstill. Many parents rely on their children going to school so they can work, but teachers seem to be able to pick and chose when they work. Same with the trains, who I can't understand why they're striking- they don't get paid badly and it's not exactly gruelling work.
The NHS- I can understand it, they get a cr@p wage, horrible job (they have to deal with sick people) and the hours are just silly. But if our government could manage the funds properly and stopped wasting it on corporate rubbish and 'inclusion' propaganda, they wouldn't need to strike.

Teachers, NHS, dont they have unions?
If the union leaders are saying "how bad it is to be a worker" in the NHS or as a teacher. isnt that thier fault?
Maybe the union leaders should actually give a sh** about those they are supposed to represent rather than having expensive luncheons.

 

[Raining_Roses]

Teachers, NHS, dont they have unions?
If the union leaders are saying "how bad it is to be a worker" in the NHS or as a teacher. isnt that thier fault?
Maybe the union leaders should actually give a sh** about those they are supposed to represent rather than having expensive luncheons.

True, very true.

But to play the devils aardvark, unions are good for a few things- subsidised private health and dental care and free legal advice & representation when bosses are being b*starrds.

 

[fonzie]

wait till the oen

Anyone else suffering from strike fatigue? I see the teachers have now joined the picket party. That 18 month jolly they enjoyed during lockdown has given them a taste of avoiding those pesky kids! I'm told that some are struggling so much that in order to pay their mortgages they're having to use food banks. I'm not quite sure food banks were set up to subsidise mortgage payments...
As for those striking nurses, i'd have more sympathy for them if they weren't on picket lines singing, larking about and encouraging motorists to honk their horns. While inside those hospitals there will be patients talking their last breaths listening to that c

I don't necessarily disagree with the strikes, yet I don't agree with them either. In agreement, hardly anyone has had a pay rise over the past few years, yet prices are rising astronomically. How are we even meant to keep up with any semblance of a normal life if we can't keep up with the basic cost of living?
In disagreement, it's always the lower classes that will be affected by the strikes, especially the teachers, travel and NHS strikes. When they go on strike, the whole country comes to a standstill. Many parents rely on their children going to school so they can work, but teachers seem to be able to pick and chose when they work. Same with the trains, who I can't understand why they're striking- they don't get paid badly and it's not exactly gruelling work.
The NHS- I can understand it, they get a cr@p wage, horrible job (they have to deal with sick people) and the hours are just silly. But if our government could manage the funds properly and stopped wasting it on corporate rubbish and 'inclusion' propaganda, they wouldn't need to strike.

long and the short of it is and always has been keep the poor poor and the rich get richer