Apparently there is a public sector strike going on...

[Old Greg]

Men must trade with one another in order to live & prosper as men. I fail to see how the state levying taxes has anything to do with me, other than making the trades I'm involved in less fruitful.

I am asking if you own and direct a company which collects VAT on behalf of the state.

[northernladuk]

Teachers and TA's maybe work an hour more per day than the hours they actually teach,still they have very friendly hours and an extreme amount of holidays.
They keep up the myth successfully there's so much extra work involved, there's not.

My other half is a Y6 teacher so I can safely say this is the biggest load of tulip I have seen posted in here in a long time.

[Old Greg]

So nobody's allowed to go on strike to protest against the UK's membership of the EU? Or against Tony B Liar's invasion of Iraq? Or just the public sector?

IIRC political (and secondary action) strikes are illegal.

[Old Greg]

My other half is a Y6 teacher so I can safely say this is the biggest load of tulip I have seen posted in here in a long time.

Have you put psychocandy on Ignore again?

[Mich the Tester]

IIRC political (and secondary action) strikes are illegal.

Does that mean that in DA's ideal world a public sector employee going on strike to protest against an illegal war could be done for two offences while a private sector employee could be done for only one?

[Old Greg]

Does that mean that in DA's ideal world a public sector employee going on strike to protest against an illegal war could be done for two offences while a private sector employee could be done for only one?

It is not a criminal offence for a worker to engage in a political strike, but legal protection against dismissal is no longer there, and IIRC there are legal sanctions against a Trade Union that organises such a strike.

It would be interesting enough if an attempt to ban (in effect) public sector strikes was made, as it might be enough to stir an all out indefinite strike - legal or not, and then we'd see who wins.

[Sysman]

Plus most have a second job and retire very young on a good pension. That said, I don't think I'd fancy running into a burning building and I certainly wouldn't be bringing the matter up while they were dragging me out.

Cutting folks out of car wrecks can't be much fun either.

[DodgyAgent]

Strikes are not always about pay and working conditions. They are sometimes used as protest against authorities. How about strikes that are part of a general political protest?

How about a general strike called to protest against Britain handing powers to the EU? Should public sector workers be allowed to join a strike against that?

have you ever heard of Margaret Thatcher?

BBC NEWS | Politics | Enemies within: Thatcher and the unions

We may need to dig her up.

[DodgyAgent]

Cutting folks out of car wrecks can't be much fun either.

Don't do it then

[Old Greg]

Don't do it then

WDAS

It might be a recruitment agent inside.