The Budget

no it's not.

i know this is an ideological battle i'm unlikely to win on here, but ultimately standing around outside your office complainign about it will piss people off, waste your own time, damage the income of your employer and steel the management/shareholders against you and make it more likely that things will get worse/ you'll still get made redundant.

Slippery slope indeed.

People do not strike because they are whinging about their jobs. They strike because they are getting employers to honor contracts or perhaps deffending their rights, the same rights that prevent employers (for whom many the prime objective is to make money) from sending young children up chimneys, prevent them from discriminating on the grounds of sex,

What kind of people does it piss off excatly? I see someone on strike I tend to wonder why. People don't give up pay for the fun of it. They might just have a legitimate reason. The people who are pissed off by it (and this is a generalisation - but fuck it, this thread is full of generalisations) - are self centred who only consider the immediate 'what's in it for me' angle who can't see any further into the future and see how workers standing up for their rights might just benefit them in the future and how workers making a stand in the past mean you enjoy the rights you have today.

Corporations act like psycopaths - their interest is profit not people. If people are exploited on the way, or damaged or worse it doesn't matter to them. Only with those rights, often gained through industrial action, do we have a degree of protection and mean that you don't have to work with cancerous chemicals without sufficient protection.