Mick Lynch has made mincemeat of newscasters and the lying politicians they keep getting on TV to challenge him, but still they in media land push the narrative that those hard working folks who are trying, by the only means they have available, to get a fair wage, are just money grabbing troublemakers. Where were the same newscasters when the government were giving away all our tax money to their pals (money grabbing troublemakers) for shit PPE at grossly inflated prices that didn’t arrive and didn’t work? The public are generally evenly divided in their support for these striking workers, but according to every news piece the public are mostly against strikes, and support is waning further, and obviously the way to report on the subject, in a fair and balanced way, is to go find someone who is angry that they can’t travel to work, and ask them what they think.
I see folks posting that in comparison to themselves these workers have it good, there’s plenty wrong with that way of thinking though. If you’ve had it tough but you’re getting by, and others have it a bit better, and so you resent them for wanting fair pay when you feel undervalued also, then you’re a crab in a bucket pulling down any other crab that gets close to escaping by climbing on it’s back and keeping you both in the bucket. Support striking workers for the simple reason that in the longer run it’s good for all of us, when wages rise for workers in one sector then they soon rise for workers in all sectors as those sectors become depleted of labour, the rising tide raises all boats (a phenomenon often wrongly attributed to the prosperity of the wealthy).
Realise that demand for jobs is mostly, but not completely, wage based, and prestige jobs usually carry better remuneration than non-prestige ones. If it were easy to become or be a lawyer then more people would do it, but lessen the remuneration and the demand for the study involved would wane in turn. From what I can surmise people pursue employment in three important ways, ones that overlap and reach a sort of equilibrium through compromising factors of circumstance. What is in their greatest interest financially, what they have the time to commit to in gaining, and what they believe they are capable of and willing to do. Very few employed people are living their vocation through employment, and telling themselves, or being told that something is a vocation is a compensatory and stupefying measure that has the purpose only to deceive.
If I look at what a nurse does I do not think I could do it also, I see them as having certain human traits that I lack, such as the emotional strength to be within a crucible of pain and suffering for about half their waking hours, and yet be able to maintain sanity and joy outside of it. If I consider the Train driver I think maybe I could do what they do, and if I admit it I am also a little jealous that they may get paid so well for doing it simply because it seems like it might be quite easy to me. Now when I consider this I like to figure out why then I feel less compelled to support their plight than that of the nurses, It is in the possibility of a knee-jerk reaction, where human nature is maybe being manipulated by the television set, that the problem lays. We are presented with the idea that these lot should not have the right to complain because they are doing quite well in a comparison with us, and we, the stupid public buy that. What we should consider is that maybe we are being exploited more than them, but they, although being rewarded for it better, are also being exploited nonetheless.
Consider that all these currently striking workers have seen erosion of their conditions and their pay over time because of the arrangements of the financial fabric of the country as directed by government, who are directed by think tanks, who are directed by the people who fund think tanks. I would ask anyone to point out to me where this is the case when we cast our eyes upon the top of the business sector, which profiteer is losing out because of inflation, which monopolised private industry is losing out because of lack of government funding, who is taking a hit because of falling demand or confidence, which money men are losing money, what CEO has not had their wages increased above inflation, which billionaire has decided to pay more into the public purse? Tumbleweed….
So I support those that stand up for themselves, Mick Lynch is simply a hero as far as I am concerned and not a tyrant leader that brings the men out on a whim as the media would have you believe. This is a working man that has been elected by, and stands as representative of, his union, and that is no easy task because unlike an MP he only wields the power of the better argument. In the face of power that has both means because of media, and support because of government, he continues to make mincemeat of them.
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