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Posts tagged Strikes
More ineffective strike action
May 10th
Tweet Those of you who have read my blog in the past will know my opinions of strikes and votes on them in relation to public sector pensions over the last couple of years. For a long time (even going back to before my student union days), I have felt that many unions are far…
GMB and Unite don’t know what a majority is
Nov 18th
Tweet As many of you will know, trade unions are in uproar about the changes to public sector pensions that the Coalition want to make because of the economic slowdown. The PCS, which is a large public sector union, has produced a list of those groups who support the industrial action being taken on November…
In response to Sunny Hundal
Jul 4th
Tweet In this post on the Liberal Conspiracy blog, Sunny Hundal looked at the results of a recent YouGov poll, which asked questions about the strikes in addition to the regular ones about voting intention and leader approval. He concluded that more people blame the government for the strike action that took place on June…
Strikes that no-one wants
Jun 29th
Tweet Over the past few days I have taken a keen interest in the public sector pension negotiations and the news of the upcoming strike action. My two previous posts about this subject are here and here. As I have said before, the groups involved in this situation are entitled to the right to strike…