Tube strike, London

Spot on.

It's that sort of argument that I really can't stand. "My job is shit, I have shit conditions and can be fucked over at any moment, so everyone else should be too." If other industries and unions hadn't capitulated so easily, maybe more of us would be in a strong position - would you say no to being? Working somewhere where I've been threatened with redundancy 3 times in the past year I think I'd really like a unionised workplace - workers inevitably have no power individually, only collectively.

As for the obsession with how much someone else is paid - where does this come from? Jealousy? If you are jealous, apply to join them. I wouldn't, because I wouldn't want to do their job. It irks me that it seems many people aren't honest about their motive for slagging other workers off.

Well done, Mark. Did you even read what I wrote before wading in? I didn't say my job is shit - I quite like my job, actually - and I work in a unionised workplace; I also said on the whole I support unions. My point about pay, which you would have got if you'd read my post propery, is that they already get pretty well renumerated for what they do. Personally I don't think driving a tube train is as hard as being, for example, a nurse on A&E and they get paid a damned sight better than them, so to be asking for - and then striking over - a 5% increase (and the rights of their workers, who were in the wrong) annoys me. Perhaps I was wrong to use myself and my girlfriend as examples but you get my point. I did also state that it's no doubt a shit job that I would not like to do.

Time for bed, Mark.