A reposte

The rant below in the post, The Good the Bad and the Ugly about this week's Tube strike has garnered an equally vocal reponse. So I thought I'd further explain my reasonable argument as another post...

I'm all for strikes when a workforce is being undermined and sold down the river like the BA catering staff a couple of years ago or the firemen before that. As a form of action, there's sometimes no choice but to withold your labour. BUT. This strike was pointless. Metronet, the employers ignored the union request for assurances on job security and pensions. When it finally came up with a reply, five weeks later, the union then ignored Metronet... Round and round, chasing tails with NO ONE sitting down and to talk to each other. There was a level of childishness and puerility on BOTH sides. The strike was taken and the public, who let us remember do not have any say in this, suffered. What the unions have now agreed to was the same offered to them before the strike.