(November 27, 2011 at 10:28 am)Tiberius Wrote: I have a sense of duty, that is simply not shared by those striking. They care more about themselves than they do about the clients they serve. In some cases, I'm sure that kind of behaviour would be ignored, but in this case, some of the "clients" are children, who need a decent education in order to go out and enjoy life properly. Why are they being ignored?I'm generally with you in this thread Adrian, but I'm not on board with this comment.
Union members were invited to participate in a democratic ballot and there was a sufficient majory that voted to take action as set out in law.
It is now beholdent on all union members to comply with the descision of the democratic vote.
Plans are in place to prevent harm by running essential cover as has been identified in thorough risk assessment.
So any action will be far from 'selfish' and I'm dissapointed that you could think it might be.
All people have the potential to act selfishly, and greed being the greater motivator, you might guess my position on that.