Strike threats during Olympic games deemed "unpatriotic" - Polidicks

[B]Suggestions from the leader of the UK's biggest union that workers could strike during the London Olympics have been condemned by political leaders.[/B] Len McCluskey, of Unite, told the Guardian that [B]civil disobedience could be timed to disrupt the 2012 Games[/B]. A spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron called the idea "[B]unacceptable and unpatriotic[/B]". Labour has also criticised Mr McCluskey's comments. However, union sources told the BBC there were no specific strike plans. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg told the BBC: [B]"People will just be gobsmacked, appalled, at Mr McCluskey's remarks.[/B] "At a time when we can showcase to the world that we are positively and optimistically putting on this fantastic event, [B]he wants to bring people out on the streets.[/B]" The Liberal Democrat leader said to "[B]mess up the Olympics to prove a point[/B]" would be[B] bad for the country [/B]and called on Labour leader Ed Miliband to "rein in" Mr McCluskey, whose union is Labour's largest donor. And [B]Mr Cameron also told MPs that Labour "need to condemn this utterly[/B] and start turning back the money" from Unite. Conservative co-chairman Baroness Warsi agreed, calling the comments "an appalling display of[B] naked self-interest[/B]". "[B]It is disgraceful for a trade union boss to be calling for mass disruption when the eyes of the world will be on Britain,[/B]" she told the BBC. [B]Mr McCluskey had told the Guardian: "If the Olympics provide us with an opportunity, then that's exactly one that we should be looking at.[/B] "The attacks that are being launched on public sector workers at the moment are so deep and ideological that[B] the idea[/B] [B]the world should arrive in London and have these wonderful Olympic Games as though everything is nice and rosy in the garden is unthinkable.[/B] "Our very way of life is being attacked. By then this crazy Health and Social Care Bill may have been passed, so [B]we are looking at the privatisation of our National Health Service.[/B] [B]"The unions, and the general community, have got every right to be out protesting."[/B] However, Mr Miliband said: "[B]Any threat to the Olympics is totally unacceptable and wrong.[/B] "This is a celebration for the whole country and must not be disrupted." [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17200835[/URL]

[quote]And Mr Cameron also told MPs that Labour "need to condemn this utterly and start turning back the money" from Unite.[/quote] Of course it's acceptable for over half of the Tory donations to be from the city, despite the part of many of those in the financial crisis. ([url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12401049[/url]) Strikes me that you have no place to be preaching from, Cameron.

Strike during normal days - Government: We don't care, we will do what we want. Strike during days that matter - Government: HOW DARE YOU?! Maybe if the government wasn't ignoring what the people want and stopped shitting on their heads, there would be no need to strike during olympig games.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;34927789]Strike during normal days - Government: We don't care, we will do what we want. Strike during days that matter - Government: HOW DARE YOU?! Maybe if the government wasn't ignoring what the people want and stopped shitting on their heads, there would be no need to strike during olympig games.[/QUOTE] This. Ignoring and shitting on the people is unpatriotic and undemocratic.

A strike? Being inconvenient!? My goodness, what will they think of next!

How dare they coordinate a strike to occur when it would cause the most disruption and gather the most attention? You'd think they were trying to make a forceful point.

I have to agree that doing this is needlessly disruptive. If anything it will just make the general public annoyed with them.

[QUOTE=squids_eye;34927955]I have to agree that doing this is needlessly disruptive. If anything it will just make the general public annoyed with them.[/QUOTE] If it caused no disruption, it'd have no effect. The whole point of a strike is to cause disruption because there's a pressing issue that's not being addressed, if it wasn't disruptive, we'd just ignore it.

[QUOTE=Terminutter;34928181]If it caused no disruption, it'd have no effect. The whole point of a strike is to cause disruption because there's a pressing issue that's not being addressed, if it wasn't disruptive, we'd just ignore it.[/QUOTE] I know that, but disrupting a global event seems like a bit much to me. I imagine a lot of the athletes who have been training for years to get in would be pretty pissed off if it caused events to be cancelled.

[QUOTE=squids_eye;34933007]I know that, but disrupting a global event seems like a bit much to me. I imagine a lot of the athletes who have been training for years to get in would be pretty pissed off if it caused events to be cancelled.[/QUOTE] It would piss enough people off and people that make money and have a stake in the Olympics may just listen.

I couldn't care less we have the Olympics and support the union if the Government are continuing with the blatant class bias

So if they strike during the Olympic Games the government will actually listen. You're not exactly making a case for [i]not[/i] striking then, Mr Cameron.

Just like the strikes during the thatcher years, its actually going to do more harm on the unions image than any good it'll do for public sector workers who got their jobs via Labour overspending. Saying that I got a text from a job agency to work on the Olympics for 8 months.