This is just a little scrap over pay ......... It is not Gallipoli or Dunkirk or Stalingrad or Guadalcanal. It is certainly not 1989.
Gallipoli: 300,000 casualties
Guadalcanal: 30,000 casualties
Stalingrad: 1.5 million casualties
Dunkirk: 40,000 casualties
1989: zero casualties (except for a few bent egos and broken dreams).
So it is like 1989; just a little scrap over pay where management and union heavies try to marshal the workers for their own personal agendas.
However the difference is some people seem to be batting for the other team this time around.