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Another Tube strike announced
On 29 May, 12:45, disgoftunwells wrote:
On 29 May, 12:04, Tony Polson wrote: disgoftunwells wrote: On 28 May, 19:13, Tony Polson wrote: disgoftunwells wrote: Where you have an essential service, how about legislation to remove* the right to strike and replace it with compulsory pendulum arbitration. This has worked well at many companies, where a strike would damage employees and employers. It could work in the public sector as well. The first reaction to such a suggestion would be for the RMT to call an all-out strike. That would of course be a political strike which is banned under the 80s legislation, so the RMT could then be stripped of its assets. Nonsense. *RMT would be striking because management were unilaterally imposing an unacceptable form of wage negotiation. *That's a fundamental issue and one that would form a perfectly legal basis for industrial action. *Comrade Crow would have no problem rustling up a vote against, so all requirements of the industrial relations legislation would have been complied with. * Please read what I said - *"legislation to remove the right to strike ....and [enforce compulsory arbitration]" This would be nothing to do with the management and the RMT. If the RMT launches a strike then would be striking about Government legislation - i.e striking against a third party which is illegal under the 1984 act (I think - I studied it 20 years ago - but certainly one of them) But ultimately, when faced with constant blackmail, a day of reckoning has to arrive. That's where you're wrong. *Decades of simmering discontent and periodic strikes have led to more decades of simmering discontent and periodic strikes. *Nothing has changed. *Nothing is bringing it to a head, so there won't be a day of reckoning. I was thinking more generally. When was the last time the miners went on strike? Even Rover workers turned a new leaf, though ultimately too late to save themselves. Workers keep getting what they ask for. The management can't do anything. finally external stakeholders force the issue. In a competitive market, external stakeholders are customers and act very quickly.- Cite a successful strike or an example of workers getting what they ask for? The management invariably hold all the cards and always get what they want. Along the way, they may propose something beyond reasonableness in order to wear out the unions, and then appear to back down to what they wanted all along. There was a brief period in the early 1970s when the unions appeared to use the kind of tactics that all business use all day every day, but basically unions have no power at all beyond the funding that they provide to Labour oppositions, and that's all been squandered by a few officials chasing knighthoods (with a few honourable exceptions like Bob Crow) rather than representing the interests of their members. |
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