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- The General Strike started over the conditions of Coal Miners. The Union that Maggie Thatcher destroyed! The Big body of all the Unions the Trades Union Congress called for a General Strike. Things were bad for the working class and they had had enough!
- It ended up with civil servants upper middle class driving buses. Operating trams and trains!
- Horrors.
- Like most Strikes it did not improve working conditions. But it did prove the power of Mass action to the extent that the Tory Party passed legislation to prevent one from ever happening again.
- The repression of Trade Unionism continues to this day.
- One of the great disappointments (to me!) of the Blair Administration is that it did not repeal the TU legislation passed by the Thatcher Govt.
- I feel it is unlikely that Starmer will repeal the Anti Union legislation passed by various Tories over the last decade.
- Work to Rule
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- This is a sort of strike without striking.
- You do the bare minimum
- WHILST MANAGEMENT IS WATCHING
- Then it's time for a tea-break again!
- A Global Strike for workers rights is likely to be met by harsh repression, but a Global work to rule could easily slip under the net.
- It is my personal belief that the UK is already working to rule.
- We have had enough.
- Your Militancy may vary
- Bro. B!O!F!
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