Big public sector strike action in the UK on Nov. 30 worrying bosses

Blah blah blah!  They all sound the same.  We should all work together.  Now's not the time to strike. We all need to do what we can to keep public services going.  But a damn strike is about them not keeping public sector services going. A strike is to force them to keep things going.

When you listen to stuff like this twit in the UK it clearly reveals the myth of national unity doesn't it.  This representative of the bourgeois could be black, brown, Catholic Protestant Muslim or Jew, English or Syrian or female, after all, Thatcher was one of the most fierce representatives of her class the British capital has put forward. In these circumstances when faced with workers withholding Labor power they all ramble on in the same way, make the same arguments, a class argument. A class argument part of which is that there are no classes and we are all in this together.

I remember being in negotiations with my employers in 1997 when they were telling us that we didn't need our COLA clause in our contract, (Automatic cost of living clause) because inflation was so low. "Even your international union and its president are saying that there's no need for COLA clauses in this low inflation environment" their paid mouthpiece argued. Fortunately for us we realized that our $400,000 a year national Union president believed lots of contract clauses affecting the folks who paid the dues were of no real importance to him, like except a no strike clause which they made sure all contracts have.

We organized a mass meeting of the white and blue collar locals and then a  meeting of shop stewards and activists to prepare for a strike and low and behold, the demand to remove that clause that we had spent three months arguing over went away along with all the other major concessions. One million bucks in extras fell on the table after they had adamantly told us there was only so much money in the pot.

You could put any national identity on this guy, the argument would be the same. Marx was not kidding when he suggested workers of the world might consider uniting was he?