I'm not that well up on strikes, but none of the ones I know about seem to achieve anything. Our General Strike in 1913/14 resulted in a lockout which forced workers back. Thatcher broke the miners and all they achieved was the death of the coal industry. When there are strikes here (electricity, buses, rail etc) people have some sympathy but ultimately they want whatever they're being deprived of by the strike (coal, electricity, buses etc) and everyone ends up going back to work. Teachers' strikes, nurses' strikes, seem to get nobody anywhere.
Nevertheless, everyone should have the right to strike. Except me. As I don't work. And she'd kick my ass if I did.
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