A good time for strikes
Sometimes workers and unions have to strike at times we would not have chosen. The bosses pick a time when they feel secure and can afford a risk of idling their business to victimise union reps or impose worse conditions. Sometimes we win strikes even when the bosses have done the best of calculations. This is a time when the chances of winning strikes are better than usual. On 5 November the Daily Mirror compiled a list of 39 u-turns by the Tory government since early 2020. It is a government with little solid strategy beyond its December 2019 election slogan, “Get Brexit done”. Brexit is...