workies working during strikes. scum/not scum?

[UnderOpenSky]

Its quite obvious there was a problem. There are no lectures, letters are coming out from the uni and work for some is not marked. Not that any of my lectures actually bothered turning up. I don't actually mind any of this as my lectures are making up for it.

I'm sorry if I find it hard to show solidarity so they can get another holiday a year. If they can get another couple of % a year then good for them, but if your doing something, at least show you care by getting everyone there, at least when the firefighters did they had a decent show outside the stations.

To be honest I think if you asked most of my year what a picket line is they probably couldn't tell you.

 

[revol68]

what pisses me off more than people not knowing shit, is when they take some sort of smug pride in it. Seriously in my politics tutorials people looked at you like you had two heads if you stated a coherent opinion or read something outside the reading list.

 

[nightowl]

To be honest I think if you asked most of my year what a picket line is they probably couldn't tell you.

so much for education

 

[Zaskar]

I was a self employed dispatch rider in the 80s and I got the sack for refusing to cross picket lines.

Result, I felt rightouss but I was broke and miserable.

Now, well I wouldnt cross a picket line so long as it wont directly harm me. As a nurse I might be manning one soon.

 

[Idris2002]

I was reading my niece a bedtime story - the Horrible History of the First World War - and it mentioned strikes.

So I asked her if she knew what a strike was and she said 'it's when the place where you work doesn't treat you properly, so you stop working'. Not bad for a 9 year old, eh?

As for Global Stoner, I'm tempted to reply using the reproductive imperative, but Nigel and revol68 have already ripped him a new one, so that might be a cruel and unusual punishment.

But I do have to reply to his charming notion that his lecturers are on the pig's back. The very senior people (the emerging class of 'research capitalists') might have it easy, but the rest of us are facing growing casualisation and exploitation. So, no apologies for causing minor inconvenience to the dolly birds and boy racers of the modern studentariat.