So tomorrow most of the UK will be on strike, including my husband. Usual reasons, pension contributions increase, less pay out at the end, retirement age being risen. The 1% not getting how the rest of the world lives. What’s pretty much going on worldwide at the moment as the haves once again punish the rest of us.
But how do I feel about it? Unhappy. For one thing, we can’t get Adam to daycare due to the Belfast Metro joining the strike without paying about an equal amount in taxi fares as we do for a day there. But we still have to pay daycare for the day. So there’s a day’s fees wasted.
For another, it’s nearly Christmas. What I really need is for Simon to lose a day’s pay.
Thirdly, *I’m* not on strike and I have meetings at my largest client’s tomorrow. Which means taxi fees. Yes, they go on my company’s accounts but it’s still cash gone from our accounts, again, right before Christmas.
Finally, I don’t think one day strikes do much. I just don’t. Yes, it’s a pain for all of us for one day. But a person can handle anything, if it’s only for a day.
We’re handling it by Simon and Adam having a fun day together and me going off in a taxi to my meetings.
But I am not happy about it. And really wish the haves would figure out what they are doing to the rest of the world.
Before this revolution gets very very bloody.
It is a sorry state of affairs, at the moment. I support the strike. At some point we have to stand up for what we believe in.
I don’t disagree with that, MmeL. But, as I said, I don’t think one day strikes do much. Not that we can afford for Simon to strike for weeks and weeks.
But it’s strikes that are endless that makes the government notice. Cameron has already pretty much dismissed this strike. Nothing will change because of it.
Great post. It’s true, one day won’t have done much other than inconvenience, but be careful what you wish for, as in Paris when they used to get going for days at once it was hell. I was paid by the hour in my job there and if I couldn’t commute several days at once it was tough at the end of the month.