Strikes. Are you with them or not?

[JC]

Its all part of the 'i'm alright' Great Britain 

is ANY part of great britain alright these days though ?

[AudiA8Quattro]

Who is going to get a 250k a year pension? 

[AudiA8Quattro]

Its all part of the 'i'm alright' Great Britain 

is ANY part of great britain alright these days though ?

No. But there are still some 'good' people left.

I think we should hunt down Nick for starting this awful topic 

[raferackstraw]

at chris white

my mother is 82 and gets up at 530 am to get ready and get the bus to go work in the kitchens at the civic centre every mon-fri, she actually does work her fingers to the bone and if she earns too much her pension is taxed, but what does she do?

she gets on with it, doesnt complain, and certainly wouldnt dream of striking, so to those that are teachers, you go and do what she does and the lot of you wouldnt last a day.

she was ousted from this job by the labour council who forced her to retire then handed her job to agency staff. so what she did was join the agency and got her old job back for iirc less money. she is regarded by the agency as their best worker and works harder than other staff a third of her age.
she doesnt get 13weeks holiday a year and takes home about 118 a week.
 so i would say to teachers  STOP WHINING AND BLEATING ABOUT BEING HARD DONE BY

[AudiA8Quattro]

Is anyone else going to answer my question?

If each person on this forum stood to lose wages/benefits/pensions what would your opinions be then?

[dom]

Is anyone else going to answer my question?

If each person on this forum stood to lose wages/benefits/pensions what would your opinions be then?

The forum would be united in striking and everybody would be playing hell

[JC]

right then, I will answer first,

if it meant i kept a job, and wasnt screwed over to badly then yes I would be ok with it.

how can i say that, easily

 i am about to take a 16k pay cut, even adding in my pension i will still be 7k worse off.

Thats life, suck it up and get on with it  

[AudiA8Quattro]

Is anyone else going to answer my question?

If each person on this forum stood to lose wages/benefits/pensions what would your opinions be then?

The forum would be united in striking and everybody would be playing hell

That's the point. I don't really agree with strike action.
However i see why people could be pushed to it.
Also i would bet alot of people on here(more than would admit it) would strike if they were able to in a situation where they personally would lose out.

[AudiA8Quattro]

right then, I will answer first,

if it meant i kept a job, and wasnt screwed over to badly then yes I would be ok with it.

how can i say that, easily

 i am about to take a 16k pay cut, even adding in my pension i will still be 7k worse off.

Thats life, suck it up and get on with it  

Lucky you, you have a pension.
I haven't 

[Jay]

Who is going to get a 250k a year pension? 

No where was it said that per year. Its what it equals out over their retired Life.

Chuff got it spot on. After all that's the British thing to do.