This is a result of governments moving the goalposts on how people can organise to strike. It's as if they kept holding the buses up, now they've all arrived at once.
Crazy how prices for all things went up, yet the wages these people earn for producing these items hasn’t moved at all. Strike away, the rich thinking they can widen the gap needs to be addressed.
@@portaltaker haha thats the point. Corporations, monopolies and free market should be abolished in favur of socialism. My grandparents have a story of the first time their bike was stolen. It was after the system changes of 1989 and until then everyone was so socially secure where i lived that they never locked their bikes; no one had to make ends meet by stealing things
One part of me is obviously frustrated, not getting my stuff in time or having limited travel options, but I'm generally on their side. Major strikes like this have been a long time coming imo. I'd almost say it would be better for a more organised general strike rather than industries on different days. Shut down the country for a few days and it will get discussions going.
@@Essentially_Nobody we all live in the same country, we experience the same inflation. I’m not living very comfortably at the moment and I rely on the trains quiet a bit and every time they strike, I can’t work. I understand the power of collective bargaining, but when do we say it’s enough? If there was a proposition that said all trains are being automating, I would support that 100%, it’s not like we don’t have the technical capabilities, the only thing stopping it is the unions. **that was meant to say literally**
@@vullings1968 just to be clear, you’re the only one that misspelled my name (only one s in Klaus) and I support the strike. Sarcasm doesn’t always come across in text, hence the 😢
Good on them. Time to say Enough is Enough. Politicians get pay increases for doing what they want when they want. Common workers don’t have that privilege. Time for change 👍
You forget junior doctors who are going to vote on strikes in a months time - highly likely to strike too, they are after a 25% increase as per the amount lost to inflation since 2008
@@luisandrade2254 omg! you are right.. there are certain services and markets whose workers should accept whatever conditions they are given, even if that leaves to those workers being basically slaves or them moving away from that market making that service void and null… fuck ambulance drivers! they should have chosen a less stressful job with better benefits.. maybe mcdonalds or starbucks would be better for them than driving ambulances right? it was their choice to work there and they can move to the competitor at any time: the private ambulance service… 🥱🥱 /s
@@vikka14 ah yes the poor slaves of the developed world with their air conditioning iPhones 3 weeks vacations to the Cayman Islands and reliable water and food so much they take it for granted. I mean 300 years ago people were hunted by dogs by the English but now the English have to like do an extra hour or two that’s basically the same thing isn’t it
@@luisandrade2254 i’m not saying they are slaves i am saying they would be slaves if it wasn’t for workers organising and striking and doing everything else they could to have labour rights. you think the owners were the ones that decided to raise their salaries by the kindness of their hearts out do you think it was centuries of strikes and political activism that made them have the wages that pay for iphones, water and cayman island visits? also you assume too much off what all workers can afford and you are very biased about what all workers deserve to afford. do only big owners deserve iphones and trips to the caribbeans, do all those workers afford or have iphones and caribbeans. to close, slavery is not about how much you have is about who owns you.. a house slave had a relatively good life, they hate the food of their masters, lived inside the manor in a bed, had some money for their stuff, dressed up nicely, got educated by the tutors of their masters children, would have recess, would get treated by the physician, would even treat other slaves as inferiors… a better life than some free people in the same area, even… and yet they were still slaves. what defines slavery is not what you have at your disposal, is if anyone has you at their disposal.. and sure, legally, in modern britain no one can own a human being, but what are the ambulance drivers to do? quit? they still need to pay for their needs… luckily there are so many other markets that have satisfied works where they can work in, right… you know: rail roads, buses, deliveries, hospitals, mail, highways, airports, schools… there are a lot of places where they can use their work experience and where other workers are getting their fair shar… oh… they are striking too…
I hate when people say “but raising their pay will make inflation worse”. If that is the case why has inflation always continued despite wages never keeping up with inflation?
It's Stagflation with only inflation is growing but if wages increase, the disposal income will also increase and the economy may also grow , better than just inflation rising.
It really depends on whether the recession is supply side or demand side, If it's demand side, raising wages shouldn't cause inflation, there's enough stuff for people to buy, they just need to be able to afford it. If it's supply side, then raising wages will likely cause inflation, as you've not changed the amount of stuff available, only given workers more money to buy it with, so prices go up.
Hi, I'm from Seattle, where we have the highest minimum wage in the country. That argument got thrown around a lot, but it has been shown to hold no weight. Inflation was going to happen anyway, at least raising pay helps wages remain value-to-hour proportional with the rest of the country. This topic veers toward trickle down economics, implying that any hindrance to employers will have adverse effects on communities, when really that notion is anti-capitalist. It is the capitalist objective to raise profits while cutting expenses; hiring for the sake of serving community needs is counter productive in the hunt for profits unless the company is heavy on expansion. Even then, there are diminishing returns on putting more labor into an area that doesn't need it. For my two cents, it's best to have companies cover all bases; pay their taxes, pay their employees and give back to their communities. At least then when inflation happens we're not having people stagnate and become unsustainable.
Yes. And now for the government rhetoric about holding the country to ransom. Strange how the media fails to report the indemnification of companies for loss of profit, as with the train operators.
@@LokiNegus Automation doesn’t inherently mean cheaper though. There’s a lot of infrastructure that has to go into setting up automatic train operations. It also doesn’t mean it’s any more reliable, if anything it could be less reliable in certain aspects as there could be conditions that a human driver could handle but an automated system couldn’t.
@@JuneNafziger At Frist you're correct during set up and roll out but after the cost is massively cheaper. An office of programmers (and others obviously) is cheaper than the huge amount of overpaid drivers and guards. An AI is obviously going to be more efficient as well, as machines cannot make mistakes.
Honestly the most I'm being inconvenienced by this is some of my Christmas presents are taking longer than usual to show up at my front door, and I'll have to drive to Christmas this year instead of taking the train, which I was probably going to do anyway. All power to the workers.
@@aaroncousins4750 My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in May, it took the NHS until November before they could even get her on radiotherapy, we're still waiting to see if she got away with it. The NHS is shattered, and it isn't recent strike action that anyone with a brain is seriously blaming. Maybe we didn't clap hard enough or something, you tell me.
@@aaroncousins4750 They're going to force the government to reallocate financial resources towards an NHS that they've gotten away with draining piecemeal for over a decade and they're going to wake the electorate up to the extent of the damage that our health service has been allowed to withstand for all that time. You could come to that conclusion in 15 seconds if you weren't deliberately avoiding it but instead you want to wheel out your hypothetical debate points like none of this is actually happening. Please care now, because ten years from now or sooner it'll be you or your relative trying to get treatment from a cancer ward with all the funding of a third world nursery school.
100% on their side, it may be an inconvenience but people need to fight to be paid what they are worth. nurses for one can't pay bills with claps from 2 years ago, they need to be paid more.
The thing is if the company can fire expensive employees and rehire at a cheaper cost while maintaining a similar work output then these people are currently being paid more than they are worth
@@lewisbaitup6352 There is no such thing as a greedy company in a capitalist society. The aim of the company is to get profit for the owners by offering a service to people. There no point in paying someone 25k a year to do a job that someone else is willing to do for 20k a year. That isn't greed. That is logic. If you don't like the salary then get a higher paying job that requires more skill. Or better yet you can risk your life savings to start a company and on the slim chance it's successful have your employee's complain they don't get paid enough.
@@epjarvis1285 bootlicker, and they're all greedy. Also the risk with starting a company is that worst case, you'll just become a worker again and idk about you but that risk is pretty low for these bloodly billionaires that wealth btw is stolen from the workers. Fucking great system😒
@@lewisbaitup6352 This shows how painfully little you know about business. In order to start a business there is typically a lot of up front cost. If it doesn't work out all that money is gone. I saved up and sacrificed all my early 20's for like 8 years to start a business and thank god it went well. If it didn't I would be absolutely fucked right now with no memories in "the best years if my life". I took that risk and now I am gaining that reward. Just because you decided to piss your money away at the local pub every weekend and not achieve anything in your life doesn't mean people like me should have to pay you more.
This is causing me a lot of stress in organising things around the strikes this Christmas, but that doesn't change how I support them wholeheartedly. I can work around it. They can't work around bad working conditions / benefits / pay.
Literal lives are on the line with some of these, which i suppose, is all the more reason to up the pay if some people are literally counting on you with their lives.
I will always side with workers all of the time, no matter what. Now if only America could do something like this, hope the railway strike is a snowball.
🎶They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn, But without our brains and muscle not a single wheel would turn We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn that the union makes a strong! SOLIDARITY FOREVER! SOLIDARITY FOREVER! SOLIDARITY FOREVER! FOR THE UNION MAKES US STRONG!🎶
During the pandemic, we all went a solid two weeks of nearly everything shutting down, and some things have still never recovered. We're surviving. We're not thriving, but yeah, most of us are still alive.
You also grew up in a time when it cost far less to get a college education, buy a house, car, have a spouse. travel, etc. Literally every aspect of life was cheaper, of course you survived, you didn't have to struggle!
Rail strikes have ruined about 3 holidays/trips for me this year, but at the end of the day I support them. Give them what they want! It's hurting our economy and the environment by not!
"Ambulance drivers"??? Presumably you mean paramedics. You know those people who have a degree? This is why ppl treat ambulances as free taxis! Please! Solidarity with all of them.
@@luisandrade2254 The only innocent people who are suffering are those who have to listen to the servile stream of shite erupting from your addled mind. If the services are so essential that people would suffer without them, the people who perform those services should be adequately remunerated, not forced onto an effective pay cut by inflation.
@@daycentchunage5341 they are adequately remunerated otherwise they wouldn’t be doing it. Who are you to decide what’s “adequate”? If there’s a market price that’s the only adequate price we need
Just a reminder to everyone that lots of these strikes are about more than pay. Nurses are also striking because of dangerous staffing levels in hospitals. Rail workers are also striking because their employer want to fire huge numbers of them and put them on weak flexible contracts with other terrible contract rules. The government will make it seem it's all about being greedy for money but it's about wanting a decent job that gives you respect and you can rely on. and in the case of nurses it's about wanting a job where you don't have to provide substandard care and risk patients lives. I know about this, my mom is an NHS midwife, she's quit her job but went back because they were so desperate. She's said she's had to accept that she can't provide adequate care to everyone and can only do what she can and it really hurts her.
Every time, 100% with workers!!! We have to protect ourselves from the crooked/sellout politicians, regardless if this creates inconvenience for us as well, but we can’t let them treat us as some sort of slaves, be strong brothers!!
Usually I’m all for strikers being allowed to strike after all if your not getting what you deserve right for it! WITH ONE EXCEPTION if not doing your job could get someone killed because you can’t get an ambulance or a doctor I don’t care how much or how little your getting payed ITS NOT WORTH SOMEONES LIFE!
As a guy who live in a non democratic country Im quite shock that they made their plans very transparent and for everyone to see because if it was like that in my country it wouldn't even start.
I fundamentally agree with strike action. In fact, I think we should go one step further and grind this country to a halt and refuse to move until pay is increased in line with inflation, contracts are secure and reasonable, staff are safe and well looked after. You know, it’s come to something when we had to wait for middle England to get pissed off before they took us seriously. Grind it to a halt. Watch how quickly policies change then.
Not sure a strike of onion picklers will have quite the urgency and impact of a nurse strike. Pickled onions keep a while and people don't precisely die without.
So no one has money to spend but inflation is up. It can't be purchasing power driving inflation so what are the other factors of inflation? ...oh yes, that's right, massive company profits can fuel ( pun intended ) inflation. So let's start with this basic knowledge and extrapolate. It starts to get fairly obvious from there.
@@saltycenturion3704 The 'workers can just leave' any job...I fail to understand the logic behind your comment. Furthermore many of the people listed as striking this month are also private businesses. Again, I fail to see what your logic is.
@@L5GUK I don’t have any issues finding better paying jobs and I’m 18. They’re just lazy bums if they sit in the same job for decades and expect rises to be given without any extra work. Put effort in finding better jobs. They’re not hard to find.
"Are you on the strikers side?" OF COURSE!!! This is why impartial reporting will always be on the side of Government and a barrier people who are struggling. This shouldn't be the question asked. How about "Do you support the Government doing nothing to stop companies Cutting people's wages even those subsidised by the tax payer?"
I may be an American but if there's one thing that I know it's that everyone deserves a living wage and more than that they deserve human rights and the right to food and security should be a right not a privilege.
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This is a result of governments moving the goalposts on how people can organise to strike. It's as if they kept holding the buses up, now they've all arrived at once.
Or you know not created the conditions in the first place with lockdowns and green policy
What's hilarious is the torys complaining that strikes are disruptive! Totally missing the point.
Tbh might as well orginise a general strike.
I’ll be down for a 2 week strike over Christmas
That probably would have happened but Thatcher's government basically made it illegal.
@@admin-yo1ee they can’t arrest everyone
@@admin-yo1eenah general strikes were made illegal in the 1920s
@@admin-yo1ee they can't force you to work, so idk how that could be illegal. Just don't show up. 😂 😂 😂
Solidarity, workers deserve more of the wealth they create.
Deserve all.
Crazy how prices for all things went up, yet the wages these people earn for producing these items hasn’t moved at all. Strike away, the rich thinking they can widen the gap needs to be addressed.
@@pendergastj I mean let’s be realistic, not all, companies need profit to reinvest. But yes they 100% deserve more
@@portaltaker haha thats the point. Corporations, monopolies and free market should be abolished in favur of socialism. My grandparents have a story of the first time their bike was stolen. It was after the system changes of 1989 and until then everyone was so socially secure where i lived that they never locked their bikes; no one had to make ends meet by stealing things
@@warpoverdrivu6900 yeah all our grandparents talk about “the good old days” but honestly it’s nostalgia through rose tinted glasses.
One part of me is obviously frustrated, not getting my stuff in time or having limited travel options, but I'm generally on their side. Major strikes like this have been a long time coming imo.
I'd almost say it would be better for a more organised general strike rather than industries on different days. Shut down the country for a few days and it will get discussions going.
Train drivers don’t need to be striking, they literacy earn an average of 60k, and they ruin it people that depends on the train to get to work.
I agree with you
@@d2mik2 "literacy" 🤨
@@Essentially_Nobody we all live in the same country, we experience the same inflation. I’m not living very comfortably at the moment and I rely on the trains quiet a bit and every time they strike, I can’t work. I understand the power of collective bargaining, but when do we say it’s enough? If there was a proposition that said all trains are being automating, I would support that 100%, it’s not like we don’t have the technical capabilities, the only thing stopping it is the unions. **that was meant to say literally**
@@Essentially_Nobody evidence for what?
It seems like the people we were clapping for not long ago are trying to get our attention.
Let’s clap louder so that we can’t hear them! 😢
@@klausdudas Klauss, you accidentally misspelled your name! The first D in your family name should be a J!
@@vullings1968 just to be clear, you’re the only one that misspelled my name (only one s in Klaus) and I support the strike. Sarcasm doesn’t always come across in text, hence the 😢
@@vullings1968 Did you just tell someone they misspelled their own name?
@@einfachmalso8348 simply trying to be a clever dick!
I thought it was astonishingly obvious that it was sarcasm but hey ho.
the price of living goes up, so must the price of peoples time and labour
Good on them. Time to say Enough is Enough. Politicians get pay increases for doing what they want when they want. Common workers don’t have that privilege. Time for change 👍
Hell yeah, power to the workers. There has been a serious lack of it recently.
People are fed up. Of course they are striking.
To anyone saying that it’s selfish for workers to strike, just remember that their bosses can easily put an end to them by just meeting their demands
Pay people their worth. End of strikes.
You forget junior doctors who are going to vote on strikes in a months time - highly likely to strike too, they are after a 25% increase as per the amount lost to inflation since 2008
There would not be a need to strike if the system was less corrupt.
As a Union man, this is just perfect. Solidarity with all the workers ✊🏼
Unless those workers need a train or an ambulance aperantly
Yes! Demand companies don't fire any staff and keep increasing wages so our country is too expensive and far too expensive to trade global goods!!
@@luisandrade2254 omg! you are right.. there are certain services and markets whose workers should accept whatever conditions they are given, even if that leaves to those workers being basically slaves or them moving away from that market making that service void and null… fuck ambulance drivers! they should have chosen a less stressful job with better benefits.. maybe mcdonalds or starbucks would be better for them than driving ambulances right? it was their choice to work there and they can move to the competitor at any time: the private ambulance service… 🥱🥱 /s
@@vikka14 ah yes the poor slaves of the developed world with their air conditioning iPhones 3 weeks vacations to the Cayman Islands and reliable water and food so much they take it for granted. I mean 300 years ago people were hunted by dogs by the English but now the English have to like do an extra hour or two that’s basically the same thing isn’t it
@@luisandrade2254 i’m not saying they are slaves i am saying they would be slaves if it wasn’t for workers organising and striking and doing everything else they could to have labour rights. you think the owners were the ones that decided to raise their salaries by the kindness of their hearts out do you think it was centuries of strikes and political activism that made them have the wages that pay for iphones, water and cayman island visits? also you assume too much off what all workers can afford and you are very biased about what all workers deserve to afford. do only big owners deserve iphones and trips to the caribbeans, do all those workers afford or have iphones and caribbeans.
to close, slavery is not about how much you have is about who owns you.. a house slave had a relatively good life, they hate the food of their masters, lived inside the manor in a bed, had some money for their stuff, dressed up nicely, got educated by the tutors of their masters children, would have recess, would get treated by the physician, would even treat other slaves as inferiors… a better life than some free people in the same area, even… and yet they were still slaves. what defines slavery is not what you have at your disposal, is if anyone has you at their disposal.. and sure, legally, in modern britain no one can own a human being, but what are the ambulance drivers to do? quit? they still need to pay for their needs… luckily there are so many other markets that have satisfied works where they can work in, right… you know: rail roads, buses, deliveries, hospitals, mail, highways, airports, schools… there are a lot of places where they can use their work experience and where other workers are getting their fair shar… oh… they are striking too…
Up with King Charles The Imbecile, monarchy has no place in modernity.
I hate when people say “but raising their pay will make inflation worse”. If that is the case why has inflation always continued despite wages never keeping up with inflation?
It's Stagflation with only inflation is growing but if wages increase, the disposal income will also increase and the economy may also grow , better than just inflation rising.
It really depends on whether the recession is supply side or demand side, If it's demand side, raising wages shouldn't cause inflation, there's enough stuff for people to buy, they just need to be able to afford it. If it's supply side, then raising wages will likely cause inflation, as you've not changed the amount of stuff available, only given workers more money to buy it with, so prices go up.
Hi, I'm from Seattle, where we have the highest minimum wage in the country. That argument got thrown around a lot, but it has been shown to hold no weight. Inflation was going to happen anyway, at least raising pay helps wages remain value-to-hour proportional with the rest of the country. This topic veers toward trickle down economics, implying that any hindrance to employers will have adverse effects on communities, when really that notion is anti-capitalist. It is the capitalist objective to raise profits while cutting expenses; hiring for the sake of serving community needs is counter productive in the hunt for profits unless the company is heavy on expansion. Even then, there are diminishing returns on putting more labor into an area that doesn't need it.
For my two cents, it's best to have companies cover all bases; pay their taxes, pay their employees and give back to their communities. At least then when inflation happens we're not having people stagnate and become unsustainable.
Yes. And now for the government rhetoric about holding the country to ransom. Strange how the media fails to report the indemnification of companies for loss of profit, as with the train operators.
Because the media company owners are buddies with the industry owners. Go crapitalism!
If trains were automated and therefore cheap to travel and more importantly reliable, I wouldn't drive. This thought is shared with most of Britain.
@@LokiNegus Automation doesn’t inherently mean cheaper though. There’s a lot of infrastructure that has to go into setting up automatic train operations. It also doesn’t mean it’s any more reliable, if anything it could be less reliable in certain aspects as there could be conditions that a human driver could handle but an automated system couldn’t.
@@LokiNegus automation of our railways simply is not possible.
@@JuneNafziger At Frist you're correct during set up and roll out but after the cost is massively cheaper. An office of programmers (and others obviously) is cheaper than the huge amount of overpaid drivers and guards. An AI is obviously going to be more efficient as well, as machines cannot make mistakes.
Always support strikers. Especially after a decade of paycuts & in a cost of living crisis.
*Achievement Unlocked: Everyone Out.*
I NEED MY ONIONS PICKLED NOW!!
Solidarity for a general strike!
Honestly the most I'm being inconvenienced by this is some of my Christmas presents are taking longer than usual to show up at my front door, and I'll have to drive to Christmas this year instead of taking the train, which I was probably going to do anyway. All power to the workers.
What about NHS strikes when you break your leg or have a heart attack? What about people who rely on public transport to get to work?
@@aaroncousins4750 My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in May, it took the NHS until November before they could even get her on radiotherapy, we're still waiting to see if she got away with it. The NHS is shattered, and it isn't recent strike action that anyone with a brain is seriously blaming. Maybe we didn't clap hard enough or something, you tell me.
@@aaroncousins4750 Still waiting on a response.
@@Munkenba god help me, you didnt get a response after an hour. I apologise for not living on youtube. How are strikes going to improve the situation?
@@aaroncousins4750 They're going to force the government to reallocate financial resources towards an NHS that they've gotten away with draining piecemeal for over a decade and they're going to wake the electorate up to the extent of the damage that our health service has been allowed to withstand for all that time.
You could come to that conclusion in 15 seconds if you weren't deliberately avoiding it but instead you want to wheel out your hypothetical debate points like none of this is actually happening. Please care now, because ten years from now or sooner it'll be you or your relative trying to get treatment from a cancer ward with all the funding of a third world nursery school.
What are the coffin makers striking about????🤣🤣🤣
100% on their side, it may be an inconvenience but people need to fight to be paid what they are worth. nurses for one can't pay bills with claps from 2 years ago, they need to be paid more.
The thing is if the company can fire expensive employees and rehire at a cheaper cost while maintaining a similar work output then these people are currently being paid more than they are worth
@@epjarvis1285 the greediness of these companies don't signal these workers true worth.
@@lewisbaitup6352 There is no such thing as a greedy company in a capitalist society. The aim of the company is to get profit for the owners by offering a service to people. There no point in paying someone 25k a year to do a job that someone else is willing to do for 20k a year. That isn't greed. That is logic. If you don't like the salary then get a higher paying job that requires more skill. Or better yet you can risk your life savings to start a company and on the slim chance it's successful have your employee's complain they don't get paid enough.
@@epjarvis1285 bootlicker, and they're all greedy. Also the risk with starting a company is that worst case, you'll just become a worker again and idk about you but that risk is pretty low for these bloodly billionaires that wealth btw is stolen from the workers. Fucking great system😒
@@lewisbaitup6352 This shows how painfully little you know about business. In order to start a business there is typically a lot of up front cost. If it doesn't work out all that money is gone. I saved up and sacrificed all my early 20's for like 8 years to start a business and thank god it went well. If it didn't I would be absolutely fucked right now with no memories in "the best years if my life". I took that risk and now I am gaining that reward. Just because you decided to piss your money away at the local pub every weekend and not achieve anything in your life doesn't mean people like me should have to pay you more.
In Liz we Truss.
This is causing me a lot of stress in organising things around the strikes this Christmas, but that doesn't change how I support them wholeheartedly. I can work around it. They can't work around bad working conditions / benefits / pay.
Literal lives are on the line with some of these, which i suppose, is all the more reason to up the pay if some people are literally counting on you with their lives.
When the brits are becoming frenchies lol.
I was looking for this comment :D
Merry Christmas Mrs. Thatcher!
As Leslie Nielsen said it best, "Strrriiikkkeee...!!!"
Solidarity with the Onion Picklers
I will always side with workers all of the time, no matter what.
Now if only America could do something like this, hope the railway strike is a snowball.
Meanwhile, we can't even get a simple rail strike here in the US
Oh I'm sure our government will pull a similar move. The Tories are already trying to use the military to do the jobs instead.
We support the strikes! Pay working people adequately
If you don’t respect our existence expect resistance, solidarity for our workers!
Always on the strikers side. The strive for better working conditions must never stop.
🎶They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
But without our brains and muscle not a single wheel would turn
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
that the union makes a strong!
SOLIDARITY FOREVER! SOLIDARITY FOREVER! SOLIDARITY FOREVER! FOR THE UNION MAKES US STRONG!🎶
to be fair the coffin makers have it rough
Unions! The British workers have had enough.
I grew up in the 70's.
I grew up with strikes, inflation and power cuts.
I survived.
During the pandemic, we all went a solid two weeks of nearly everything shutting down, and some things have still never recovered. We're surviving. We're not thriving, but yeah, most of us are still alive.
Surviving trough power cuts isn’t really anything noteworthy
Yer so brave x
You also grew up in a time when it cost far less to get a college education, buy a house, car, have a spouse. travel, etc. Literally every aspect of life was cheaper, of course you survived, you didn't have to struggle!
solidarity to the FBU (Fire Brigades Union)
Rail strikes have ruined about 3 holidays/trips for me this year, but at the end of the day I support them. Give them what they want! It's hurting our economy and the environment by not!
Look, whoever isn’t striking is basically cancelled lol
Always on the stikers' side 😍
You've gotta love it. Solidarity with all workers.
Fuck it, I'm done paying taxes.
We need an election!
When dude said everyone he meant everyone
GOOD they deserve better pay
"Ambulance drivers"??? Presumably you mean paramedics. You know those people who have a degree? This is why ppl treat ambulances as free taxis! Please!
Solidarity with all of them.
keep striking!
Yeah let’s make innocent people suffer so we can get more money such great cause
@@luisandrade2254 yep 🤦♀️
@@luisandrade2254 The only innocent people who are suffering are those who have to listen to the servile stream of shite erupting from your addled mind.
If the services are so essential that people would suffer without them, the people who perform those services should be adequately remunerated, not forced onto an effective pay cut by inflation.
@@daycentchunage5341 translation: I’ve never worked hard in my life and I don’t want to listen how that is normal and inevitable and nothing to moan
@@daycentchunage5341 they are adequately remunerated otherwise they wouldn’t be doing it. Who are you to decide what’s “adequate”? If there’s a market price that’s the only adequate price we need
I think this might already be out of date... more strikes!!! 😅
Hopefully these strikers will get good terms after the negation due to these strikes
Any Ambulance Driver who strikes is a monster
Nope
Yes, people must defend themselves from the exploration by the rich.
exploitation, though the elites would probably want to explore you too :D
Damn, don’t do no crazy shit in England on the 15th and 20th cuz there ain’t gonna be no ambulance to take you to the hospital💀
I am with the strikers yes. I am going into either nursing or paramedic so 100% support them striking
Problem these strikes kinda hurt the people they are trying to defend, and the target most likely won’t feel them.
Solidarity with all striking workers solidarity forever.
Just a reminder to everyone that lots of these strikes are about more than pay. Nurses are also striking because of dangerous staffing levels in hospitals. Rail workers are also striking because their employer want to fire huge numbers of them and put them on weak flexible contracts with other terrible contract rules.
The government will make it seem it's all about being greedy for money but it's about wanting a decent job that gives you respect and you can rely on. and in the case of nurses it's about wanting a job where you don't have to provide substandard care and risk patients lives. I know about this, my mom is an NHS midwife, she's quit her job but went back because they were so desperate. She's said she's had to accept that she can't provide adequate care to everyone and can only do what she can and it really hurts her.
totally with the strikers on this. Though they should all strike for 1 week, all at the same time. Grind the UK to a halt.
Based workers, keep up the strikes, blood and money are the only languages the establishments speak
Power to the workers. This is what happens when tories run things.
Solidarity workers! Strike! Strike! Strike!
How well will Brexit go?
Britons: almost general strike.
Every time, 100% with workers!!! We have to protect ourselves from the crooked/sellout politicians, regardless if this creates inconvenience for us as well, but we can’t let them treat us as some sort of slaves, be strong brothers!!
Holy shit! Now that is how you strike! Riots are more often than not killer and destructive. This is so much better.
Usually I’m all for strikers being allowed to strike after all if your not getting what you deserve right for it! WITH ONE EXCEPTION if not doing your job could get someone killed because you can’t get an ambulance or a doctor I don’t care how much or how little your getting payed ITS NOT WORTH SOMEONES LIFE!
This is such a win for workers
if the government did their job (even if it was just to mediate), then we wouldn't be having the strikes.
That's literally the entire month
Why have I been recommended this?
Labour creates all wealth, never cross the picket line
Tax the rich
Yes! Solidarity!
Shut the country down! People have had it too hard for too long, things need to change and people need to be given a fair go in life
As a guy who live in a non democratic country Im quite shock that they made their plans very transparent and for everyone to see because if it was like that in my country it wouldn't even start.
And here America can't get even one strike for essentially rail workers.
Light up the braziers boys, former British Leyland employees will be joining them soon, even though the company has been closed since 1986.
I dont understand staggering the strike...
Wouldnt a continuous stike untill concessions are made be more effective.
I fundamentally agree with strike action. In fact, I think we should go one step further and grind this country to a halt and refuse to move until pay is increased in line with inflation, contracts are secure and reasonable, staff are safe and well looked after.
You know, it’s come to something when we had to wait for middle England to get pissed off before they took us seriously. Grind it to a halt. Watch how quickly policies change then.
Why is this not a thing in other countries that strikes are planned?
It gets the message across, but you can still plan ahead and around it.
this is why i'm getting Irish citizenship
Yes I'm on the strikers side. Over a decade of economic mismanagement has broken the public sector along with many others.
What about Coal Miners? THATCHER INTENSIFIES*
all of this could've been stopped if they just puppeteered the late queen
Not sure a strike of onion picklers will have quite the urgency and impact of a nurse strike.
Pickled onions keep a while and people don't precisely die without.
It’s probably to try to get some goodwill in the Christmas season! Worst thing is many people here seem to support this
Lol, this is a normal month in France.
Everyone is striking, except for Harry Kane
So no one has money to spend but inflation is up.
It can't be purchasing power driving inflation so what are the other factors of inflation?
...oh yes, that's right, massive company profits can fuel ( pun intended ) inflation.
So let's start with this basic knowledge and extrapolate.
It starts to get fairly obvious from there.
These strikes impact me heavily, but I wholeheartedly support the strikes.
This is why I hate Britain for that many strikes in a country the size of Ohio
Don't forget the strikes that have been actively ongoing for weeks already, such as Quorn.
Who the fuck cares about quorn. They’re a private business workers can just leave.
@@saltycenturion3704 The 'workers can just leave' any job...I fail to understand the logic behind your comment.
Furthermore many of the people listed as striking this month are also private businesses. Again, I fail to see what your logic is.
@@L5GUK I don’t have any issues finding better paying jobs and I’m 18. They’re just lazy bums if they sit in the same job for decades and expect rises to be given without any extra work. Put effort in finding better jobs. They’re not hard to find.
@@saltycenturion3704 What an incredible self own.
Or an obvious troll.
Either way, conversation over.
@@saltycenturion3704you should expect to get a rise to compensate for inflation, otherwise your being paid less for the same work.
"Are you on the strikers side?"
OF COURSE!!!
This is why impartial reporting will always be on the side of Government and a barrier people who are struggling. This shouldn't be the question asked.
How about "Do you support the Government doing nothing to stop companies Cutting people's wages even those subsidised by the tax payer?"
The winter of discontent, part 2
I have important exams on some of those days and rely on trains so nope.
The U.K using the month off, got it
I may be an American but if there's one thing that I know it's that everyone deserves a living wage and more than that they deserve human rights and the right to food and security should be a right not a privilege.
I fully support the strikers. Except for those damn onion picklers! They're too greedy.
Yes i am. Cooperatives like The Mondragon Corporation are even better.