alchresearch Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Excuse the source but something just doesn't sit right with this phrase with me. We will not be starved back like the miners In bad taste? A bad choice of phrase in Yorkshire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ab6262 Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 me neither hardly a veiled threat,yes in bad taste and pretty stupid just about sums up all union mentality....especially Unison.....but if they strike they deserve all they get, get with the programme people and cut your cloth accordingly and we might ,just might get out of this mess the country is in!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Oh look, the DM thought police. Good on him I say. Don't let anyone push you around otherwise you will be pushed around all your life. Get your gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 The world has too many prawn sandwiches and tofu wraps for the public sector to starve. The man's an idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvey19 Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 I think he needs to look very closely at how few miners there are today if he is using them as a reference point. No set of workers are secure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L00b Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 That's a poor, populist and rather crass analogy: miners were striking to save their livelihood (and, in their vast majority, all they knew to do and had to look forward to), not amendments to their pensions arrangements. I will hazard a guess (...dangerous ground around these parts...) that miners had the public's sympathy en masse for that reason, and am yet to be convinced (read: am very highly skeptical ) that the planned "chaotic strikes" will be as popular as union leaders claim, this time around. As for the Unison President invoking "their (poor hard-done by) brothers Greece and Ireland", considering how public sector pay and perks evolved in these 2 countries throughout the 00s (particularly Ireland!), that really is taking bad faith to stratospheric levels. There's a reson why the Irish public sector at large took a 15% paycut (yes, you read that figure right) last year, without so much as a raised eyebrow: they knew full well how good they'd got it up to 2009. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 The changes the Tories are bringing in are an ideological attack on the state and state provision of services. The analogy works perfectly when addressed to public sector worker's who are being outsourced and made redundant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvey19 Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 The changes the Tories are bringing in are an ideological attack on the state and state provision of services. The analogy works perfectly when addressed to public sector worker's who are being outsourced and made redundant. Is Labour supporting the Unions and strike action ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mj.scuba Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 I don't understand it tbh, how many miners ever starved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L00b Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 The analogy works perfectly when addressed to public sector worker's who are being outsourced and made redundant.No more than it does when addressed to private sector workers who have been outsourced and made redundant over the last 2 decades, and still are to this day. And who since found new employment/have retrained/set up their own business/etc. Noone is owed a job. Be it from private or public employers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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