General Strike, Are We Back In The 70S?

[webbo3]

I didn't see the Labour MPs who are public sector workers turn down their 1.3% pay rise on top of
a similar cap-busting 1.3% increase last year and a massive 10% hike in 2015 which took an MP's basic pay from £67,000 to £74,000.

Perhaps Jon Ashworth and the rest of his party should refuse their pay rise.

http://news.sky.com/story/labour-refuses-to-rule-out-general-strike-support-over-public-sector-pay-cap-11029205

[ichkeria]

Do you mean 1920s?

[webbo3]

No the 1970s

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6729683.stm

[ichkeria]

The last general strike in the UK was in 1926

[webbo3]

Remember the 3 day week, brought in because of this.

On 24th January 1974, 81% of NUM members voted to strike, having rejected the offer of a 16.5% pay rise.

yes, 16.5%.

[ichkeria]

Tho we did have one in N Ireland in 1974

[naomi24]

1970s - as near as damn it! Wasn't that when even dead bodies lay ignored by the 'workers'?

To answer the question, we will be if Labour has its way.

[ToraToraTora]

please strike, fire the useless ja arthurs and move on. Sorted.

[gulliver1]

The first six replies on here mention ,1920.1970, 1926,1974.1974,1970 Then we get TGT trying to talk German. at 19.56 are you all nut's, there is an excuse for TGT, but for the rest of you , ??????. OMG,

[mushroom25]

You'll have the grammar police after you Gulliver, using an apostrophe to denote a plural....

[douglas9401]

You really have to Mushroom, this thread is banana's. :)

[EDDIE51]

Naomi , Dead bodies ignored by workers?
Are you thinking of Arthur Scargill's alleged plea for funds to Col Gaddafi of Libya, where he claimed the miners were unable to bury their dead due to lack of money?

[tonyav]

Ah yes the winter of discontent.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7598366.stm

[Baldric]

Seems to cover it Tony, Eddie may have miss it!

They are planning synchronised strike action that might echo those weeks in early 1979 when the dead went unburied and school children feared they'd have to cross picket lines to get to their exams.

[EDDIE51]

You may find this interesting
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6729683.stm
Memories of the 1970s strikes and the 3 day week.
Personally I found the 3 day week wonderful. As I was monthly paid I did not lose any wages. But there was nothing to do at work with no electricity. We spent the non working days sitting outside in the sunshine , it was great weather, reading books and newspapers.
I had a battery power transistor radio that we listened to.
People made money by getting a day return on the ferry to France and bringing back candels to sell at a large profit. The UK shops had run out of candles within the first few days.

[EDDIE51]

Plus the pubs never ran out of beer or stopped opening. The beer pumps were hand powered. I remember that the tills did not work with no power so the pubs just used cash boxes. Several times the boss said 'nothing to do here lads, lets get down the boozer'

[New Judge]

“Then we get TGT trying to talk German. at 19.56”

Who is TGT and where was the attempt at German? Yes and please avoid the spurious apostrophes. They are among my pet hates.

“People made money by getting a day return on the ferry to France and bringing back candels to sell at a large profit. The UK shops had run out of candles within the first few days. Several times the boss said 'nothing to do here lads, lets get down the boozer'”

Sounds just what is needed to restore the UK’s competitiveness.

[Baldric]

A Labourite / Unionist Wet Dream imo.

[New Judge]

And back to the issue, workers today are far less gullible and easily led than they were forty years ago. Trade Union membership is down from about 13m in 1978 to around 5m now. Workers are reluctant to strike for political reasons and value their income more than their Union Leaders' ideologies.

[naomi24]

Eddie at 21:22, no, I am not.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/30/liverpool-gravedigger-strikes

[naomi24]

Poor little Gulliver at 20:12. She tries. :o)