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Seems the rail strike due here after Easter is called off by the law courts.

BBC News - Rail strike plans cancelled after court injunction

Now I for one am not surprised as the courts always say strikes are illegal. But exactly who can go on strike nowadays? The rail staff and the airlines are all being called all sorts of names for striking as it "inconveniences their customers". Isn't that the general idea, to get the managers attention by using the customers? Is it now incorrect for anyone to dare go on strike, are there no jobs that cause discomfort to someone? By denying the right of people to refuse their labour what are workers supposed to do now? How far does a job or company demand obedience no matter what the management do? I think we are slowly going back to indentured servitude with employees having no say or opinion, it is do as you are told or you're fired. :mad:

FUBAR;1301102 wrote: Seems the rail strike due here after Easter is called off by the law courts.

BBC News - Rail strike plans cancelled after court injunction

Now I for one am not surprised as the courts always say strikes are illegal. But exactly who can go on strike nowadays? The rail staff and the airlines are all being called all sorts of names for striking as it "inconveniences their customers". Isn't that the general idea, to get the managers attention by using the customers? Is it now incorrect for anyone to dare go on strike, are there no jobs that cause discomfort to someone? By denying the right of people to refuse their labour what are workers supposed to do now? How far does a job or company demand obedience no matter what the management do? I think we are slowly going back to indentured servitude with employees having no say or opinion, it is do as you are told or you're fired. :mad:
I think your right.

FUBAR;1301102 wrote: Seems the rail strike due here after Easter is called off by the law courts.

BBC News - Rail strike plans cancelled after court injunction

Now I for one am not surprised as the courts always say strikes are illegal. But exactly who can go on strike nowadays? The rail staff and the airlines are all being called all sorts of names for striking as it "inconveniences their customers". Isn't that the general idea, to get the managers attention by using the customers? Is it now incorrect for anyone to dare go on strike, are there no jobs that cause discomfort to someone? By denying the right of people to refuse their labour what are workers supposed to do now? How far does a job or company demand obedience no matter what the management do? I think we are slowly going back to indentured servitude with employees having no say or opinion, it is do as you are told or you're fired. :mad:


The court did not say that the Signal workers could not strike, it said that the ballot was sufficiently incompetent that the results were unreliable.

When the majority in favour of the strike was less than the number of members not included in the ballot what other choice did they have?