Is debt just another way to avoid labour disputes?
In the bad old days, the Trade Unions knew that they could “Call them out” reasonably easily over emotive issues like pay and conditions, but, once the wages got high enough for the people to exist (by and large) on 1 wage, and get a mortgage, decent car, TV and other gadgets on HP, credit card bills coming in, the workers couldn’t afford to down tools so easily, so, it became difficult to function in the old ways, the law was changed too fairly regularly, which now makes it VERY difficult to simply blow the whistle and yell “everybody out”. Ballots must be taken, they can’t be of a show of hands anymore, so, the disputes which you see now are real, deep rooted ones where the people feel they have no choice other than strike, or work to rule etc., OK, off the soapbox no comr,ohhh, sorry, colleagues.
