Back when it was the owners of the means of production that suffered financially during a strike I can understand the unions' logic. If the boss wasn't looking after the workers, hit him in the pocket until he did.
Now that the only unions left are in the public sector the people that they hurt during strikes are other workers trying to make ends meet. As you can tell, I don't think that there is any moral justification for public sector strikes.
Not only do I think these strikes are unjustified I'm horrified to learn the extent to which the people who are being hit by these actions are actually funding the unions. Basically you're paying the unions to screw you over.
This report, by the Tax Payer's Alliance, gives a full estimate of the hidden subsidy given to union officials in the public sector, the national total is £113 million. This frees up plenty of union money for them to give to people like Ed Miliband and Ken Livingstone who noticeably fail to condemn the strikes.
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The government seem determined to cut pensions by using inflation linked to CPI rather than RPI (illegal for a private company) and ask public sector workers to pay more for their pensions when their schemes are in surplus and are good value for the taxpayer.
I probably don't understand all the details, but what the government is proposing seems entirely unfair and unjustified. If you want to stop subsidising union officials that's fine, but that is not what the strike it about, it is about the employment contracts of public sector workers being changed in a very unreasonable way.
Public sector workers must have the same rights as all other workers even if this causes some problems for the government. If you disagree then arrange no-strike agreements like Boris promised us all those years ago. So far the only train company with a no strike agreement is Overground, set up by Ken, against the wishes of the unions!
Your pay is wholly paid by us. I think the unions provide a much better deal.
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