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Old May 25th 20, 09:26 AM posted to uk.transport.london
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On Sat, 23 May 2020 12:38:37 +0100
Graeme Wall wrote:
On 23/05/2020 09:54, wrote:
Any government with a working pair of ******** (which rules out the current

one)
could enact emergency legislation at a time like this to put the unions
back in their box by making striking illegal for X months and shutting down
any union that proposes it.


The one thing that would guarantee Mr Cash's wet dream of a general strike.


Unfortunately for Mr Cash its not the 1970s any more. Only a minority of the
working population belong to a union and most of those unions are not militant
but more glorified HR mechanisms. So he could call a general strike but apart
from the usual suspects (rail workers, teachers, various council employees)
life would go on as normal. And the strike itself wouldn't last long since
the strikers would not be paid from union funds and would have no choice but
to go back to work.