Tube strike, London

So you're not prepared to say what you do for a living so we can assess how vital your role in the community is and whether you are worth your pay then?....as you are doing for the tube drivers?

Worth to the community is a funny one. Tube drives seem like they have great worth to the community because the effect when they stop working is immediate and obvious. If all the people in labs across the country who are making vaccines stopped working no one would care, until people could not be vaccinated, then previously controlled diseases became endemic within society and many people start to die. The worth of these people is much greater IMO but no one would listen if they all went on strike. They would be harder to replace and restarting production would take alot longer. Still no one would listen to them as is't not as obvious or urgent. There are many other jobs like this too, but the connection and time lag between cause and effect can be even greater, and results of loosing them much more serious.