Calling all Tories. Why do you Tory?

Rascal said:
I don't want to sound picky but the NUR didn't strike in 1955. ASLEF did. Strikes post WW2 were very rare and the NUR hadn't been on strike since the General Strike of 1926 and before that it was 1919.

Of course there is no excuse whatsoever for how your family were treated.
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Correct, you're being picky.
 
Bought my first house under a Tory government. Lost my first house under a labour government. Continual interest rate rises and the removal of MIRAS meant I could no longer afford the mortgage. So when people say Labour are the party of the working people, I say bollocks.
Have never voted for the Tories either but to me they are best of a bad bunch.
 
metalblue said:
Why do you think this militant type action happens though mate? @bluwes experiences aren’t a one off.


“Pickets mark out the class line, but they must hold out at least the potential that we are actually trying to persuade or convince workers not to cross that line”.

Why do workers turn against their fellow workers? What is the psychology of it all? Is it the talk of “class war” and struggle that rouses the anger inside them? Genuine questions

Obviously we have The Miners strike and their strikebreakers are still despised and I can understand that legacy in the sense of the hardship that many families had to endure (due in no small part to shit union leadership I may add but different topic) and how that hardship was all for nowt but the intimidation was there from the start.
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Good questions.

I think the whole point of a Union is that if a decision is made democratically to strike, then everyone in that Union should accede to the wishes of the majority and show solidarity with their fellow workers. I don't condone violence towards "scabs" but they do undermine the efforts of the democratic choice.

Why they turn against their fellow workers could be anyone of a million reasons i suppose, from hating the shop steward to shagging the boss.
 
metalblue said:
Why do workers turn against their fellow workers? What is the psychology of it all? Is it the talk of “class war” and struggle that rouses the anger inside them? Genuine questions
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In the past it was probably more a thing as communities, especially amongst some trades were so close knit, then someone crossing a picket line was seen as betrayal of that community.

We don't have them close knit comunities where
most people work at a local place and then live in the same street or location as their fellow worker.


I have been on strikes in my recent times and non union members going into work have been left alone as they go in and tbh no one has questioned whether they actually are non affiliated of in the union anyway.

We even had a manager come out with tea and coffees once who was also a labour councilor, with no one berating them, which wpuldn't have been the case 40 years ago.
 
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