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[email protected] · January 28th 17, 05:01 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Jarle Hammen Knudsen) wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 14:13:45 +0000, Steve Fitzgerald
] wrote:

Presumably they are compensated (if not in full) by the union's strike
fund.

They get nothing from the union.

Can you elaborate on why? I would say one of the main purposes of
unions is to make strikes financially possible for the individual.

That idea declined once union members ceased to be on poverty wages. Few
people in that sort of hole these days are union members.

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Colin Rosenstiel