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Old 9th Dec 2022, 22:27
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Originally Posted by ShyTorque
They aren’t allowed to strike. Which is makes it more galling that they are ordered to stand in for those that are.
I don't believe the UK has had conscription for quite a while. I remember all my service being by choice, including the bits when I covered a firefighter strike and prepared to cover a tanker drivers strike.

I'm now in another profession by choice, a profession in which I'm allowed to be in a union.

We all make choices.

To add, you could even say that the freedom to be in a union was fought for by people like my grandfathers, given a certain mustache wearing German banned unions when he took power.
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