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We need more, not fewer, strikes : Comments

By Chris White, published 1/11/2011

'Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America': book review

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Will someone please send this bloke a potted history of the British ship building industry. Perhaps the history of the British motor industry would be better.

The unions decided to show them too, remember?

Remember all those great cars we used to drive?

Well there still is a British motor industry, it's the Morgan Motor Company, & it builds 14 cars a week. Just as well the unions got in there & helped, or the rest night still be building 25,000 cars a week, & we wouldn't want that, now would we?
Posted by Hasbeen, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 4:10:27 PM
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What a crude and inefficient method strikes are - if you want results, just kidnap the boss's child from kindy and all your demands will be met in no time and without hurting the innocent customers.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 5:48:53 PM
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And when the boss is gay, what happens then Yuyutsu?
Posted by Bugsy, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 5:54:05 PM
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"And when the boss is gay, what happens then Yuyutsu?"

- Well, there are still nephews and nieces!

OK, that's enough for now, I will not divulge any more trade secrets for free...
Posted by Yuyutsu, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 5:57:34 PM
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Bugsy, your incorrigible.
Posted by Hasbeen, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 7:58:05 PM
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…Australians have lost the will to protest. A lazy tendency to step aside from legitimate confrontation in the workplace, exhibits as a symptom of a social malaise, further played-out with our inability to protest political railroading of our rights as citizens, a control we should have in our day to day lives, as individuals in the greater society in which we live.

… With the decommissioning of the will to protest, offered as reward for subservience in the non-unionised workforce, the power surrendered becomes the property of Government. The achievement of Government capture, is further reinforced by such initiatives as disarming society,(Howards Gun Buy-back scheme) under the disguise of the lie that decrease in gun ownership will lead to an increased in the personal safety of its citizens. (The ever increasing incidence of drive-by shootings in Sydney and Melbourne attest to the lie).

…When the common voice of reason posits an agreement that jobs should be the property of cheap labour enclaves in Asia, and the fault lies with guilty and greedy factory workers demanding higher wages as the cause, then the cry is “down with the workers” by the workers! All appears to be lost in the industrial front! So…Goodbye Qantas
Posted by diver dan, Tuesday, 1 November 2011 8:51:50 PM
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