Jnr docs, tube workers etc. But anyone ever been on strike, if so which industry? I have once when working in a distribution centre, as they were keeping temps on and there was no overtime. Only lasted nearly 2 weeks. Even then several crossed the line. Also would you support a strike in your current employment?
Company went on strike when I was an apprentice at Clarke Chapmans in Gateshead, but because I was an apprentice the union didn't allow us to strike. We could go into work and learn the trade (welding) but obviously couldn't do production work. Could never strike in my current job as the owner would just get rid of us!!
When I worked at the Child Benefit Centre at Washington back in the late 70's, we'd get called out on strike every so often. I seem to recall the only deciding factor for some of us was the weather. If it was warm and sunny, it was everybody out to go sit in the pub garden all afternoon. If it was cold and wet we stayed at work. The unions kept the computer section out on strike for about 18 months. We all had to chip in 50p into the strike fund to support them, which I did until I found out a load of them spent most of the summer in Spain! Those days put me off unions for good!
We were 17 Comm. We didn't give a monkey's about what the strike was about, just that it was warm and the pub was open
My very first day at Coles Cranes after leaving school was told to go down to the test area where there was a meeting. All I saw was all these hands been raised and I was on strike for a week. Welcome to the workplace Flanders.
My granda was a miner & in the 1926 general strike. Poor **** fought at the Somme in WW1 & when he came back from the hell of France he went straight back down the pit. Times were ****ing hard back then. And then came the strike. My nanna taking in laundry & ironing, my granda helping the farmer to put food on the table. Winston Churchill was a complete twat who hated the miners more than that scabby bitch Thatcher. Both my granda's hated the fat bastard.
