Possible large scale uk strikes?
More than 250,000 civil servants are to vote on staging a national strike in protest at government cuts to jobs, services and pensions.
The nationwide ballot was approved by delegates at the annual conference of the Public and Commercial Services Union in Brighton.
Voting will start next week and the result will be known by mid-June.
It has been timed to coincide with industrial action by other workers, including teachers, who are set to walk out on June 30.
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka told the conference that 750,000 workers could be involved in strikes next month, a figure that could rise to millions later in the year.
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It's nice to see that it's all being done respectable like, with a month to count the votes in. At least it'll all be legal if they do decide to strike. And I like it that our rulers are being given good notice of our intention to withdraw our poorly paid labour. We wouldn't want to inconvenience them or cause any bother now would we? And it's also thoughtful that we'll all be on strike with other workers, who've planned well ahead (like planning a jolly holiday really) so that we can get it all over with together, and march from A to B again, or whatever the unions have planned for us. Next time there may be billions of us all out together, and marching with our unions again, like a hiking holiday. I can hardly wait.
Hopefully these events with some numerical impact will get workers thinking about a real fightback.
Conversely they allow the unions to pose as effective and militant.
Its all a giant chess game, the capitalists sacrifice a pawn to win a rook, a day of disruption is probably going to cost them a bit but if it allows the system, of which the unions are integral, to keep going then its just another overhead and you can't profit without them.
In one sense the event itself is of little consequence, we are going to present it in a way that strengthens our positions. Ignoring such events is no great crime, the only point is that they are probably a reference point in many workers' minds and therefore a convenient place to"hang" our perspective.
The only really negative I can see is it we fail to consistently introduce revolutionary ideas and just clap and tail the movement on the ground just to be more popular at the moment. The only thing we are going to get outside of a red hot situation, at best, is molecular growth, a few individuals opening their eyes to the historical process, the total picture.