Wyre Forest District Council workers confirm strike (From Kidderminster Shuttle)

• "Sam1983 - indeed - but that doesn't make it acceptable or right in the private sector either.
  
  Especially when those at the top have seen rises in pay/conditions way outstripping those at the bottom by a hug margin; meaning the gap is wider now than at any time in the last 40 years. This in the context of an economy still in the top 6 of the world and those who are at the top of it seemingly immune from the current recession. The pain is most definitely not being shared in my opinion.
  
  The cuts agenda has been seized upon by the right to further erode pay and conditions (private and public sector) when the real problem is economic inequality at all levels national and international. And we don't hear much from governments anywhere about sorting that out as all they seem to do is want to serve the rich and their multinational paymasters who are creating this situation in the first place.
  
  I think the fact that people are less inclined to join or form unions or take collective action because of successive government policy, media brainwashing (aka Murdoch) ....and plain fear, has helped lead to a worsening of the conditions for some of the lowest paid workers leading to a feeling of helplessness to be able to change anything.
  
  Which is why we get the whole public versus private sector arguments aimed at dumbing things down even further and driving a wedge between such workers.
  
  It's all about financial power - those at the top have it and we at the bottom don't. And until peope realise they can change things through collective action it won't change."
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