General Strike Action

I agree, NotSpaghetti. Strikers are not paid their wage and neither are their pension contributions paid.

The general strike 1926 lasted 9 days, two weeks wages lost

I agree with him too. This government don't even deserve the title of "government "

I think he is right. We are allowing our public services to be downgraded and our economy to stall and ourselves taken for fools.
We need more money to circulate and we need better services.

I hope someone gets the message out though that people are not paid if they are on strike.

So many of the general public think they are paid it seems to me.

I think he's right too.
And yes, teachers should be striking Molly if nothing better transpires.

If everyone just "worked to rule" the country would grind to a halt anyway.

I think he's right, too.

Data on percentage pay increases over the past few years are badly skewed by very high pay in the financial services sector and very large bonuses. When they are stripped out the 'average' workers have mostly had a real terms drop in pay when inflation is taken into account. And that is even before the current rise in inflation.

And the current high inflation has been caused by supply problems and Brexit, not by wage increases.

Just had a letter from my teaching union about the below inflation pay rise, unfunded so it will have to come out if the existing budget. They are canvassing opinion on whether, if they get no appropriate response from the government, we should strike.

he's right