comment: >
  
  In other words - the House of Lords should be the only House.
context: Lmao the first strikes weren't legal either, you can't force someone to work.
  Just take a page out of the CUPE workers of Ontario. They still walked under threat of a  500,000/day fine to their union and 4000/day to themselves.
  Called the government's bluff. >
  
  If they don't then the reasons for having a union pretty much cease to exist and they'd be done.
  Fighting against this sort of stuff is existential for unions >
  
  Of course, but even before unions were a thing it's about taking a stand. No deal, no work. If it's so essential pay the people when they are due >
  
  
  ‘anti-strike’ laws
  
  I thought a pillar of workers right in "democracy" was the right to strike. >
  
  Conservatives don't believe in democracy.  They believe in a caste system where only the upper class should have a say in gov't.  Lower class citizens should shut up and get back to work, be grateful for what crumbs the upper class permits you to have.