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Tony Polson[_2_] · May 29th 09, 12:27 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway

wrote:

On Fri, 29 May 2009 12:31:02 +0100
Tony Polson wrote:
That would be impracticable, and it certainly wouldn't have the desired
result. The minute you set a maximum (of either kind, or both) it
becomes an expectation, indeed almost a minimum, and the Union will
simply find some excuse(s) to strike for that number of days regardless
of whether their grievances have any real merit.

In that case you fine the RMT heavily and/or jail some of the leadership or
even the members involved. Unions can get nasty , the establishment can
get REALLY nasty if they want to.

The workers will be quite happy to strike; Comrade Crow has shown them

Not if they end up in prison and unemployed they won't.

that militancy gets results. They have gained handsomely over the years
as a result of past militancy so why would they not take action?

Thats because no one has had the ******** to stand up to them. Ironically it
took a woman to do just that to the miners.

The same woman had the great wisdom to know who to stand up to, and who
to humour. She chose her battles well.

She knew enough not even to attempt to privatise the railways, for
example. That was left to the weak leader who succeeded her, and who
gave in to the rampant free marketeers in his own party.