Striking workers should get back to work, says Undercover Intellectual

This week, our Undercover Intellectual gives us his balanced and fair view of workers who take industrial action...

Ultra-militant 1970s throwbacks, otherwise known as English “workers”, have been making the lives of the management of local tech company Bastardia miserable for more than 3 months now.

Yes, since December 2023, these avaricious lefty loonies have been holding their bosses to ransom and crippling their factory on a regular basis.

Despite this, every time I see a news item featuring this on-going debacle, at least one or two befuddled members of the public still say that they support the action these leftist idiots are taking.

Now I know they’ve dredged up a number of quibbles and perceived affronts to their sensibilities over this extended period of manufactured mayhem but the main issue has always been contracts of employment.  So how can anyone still be sympathetic to these greedy, blatant money-grubbers?

Workshy socialist scum

They have already turned down having their current employment contracts terminated, and refuse to be put on zero hours contracts at far lower hourly rates. At least they've still got jobs, so why are they whining?  Any sympathy I had for them evaporated an awful long time ago.

Well, I’ve got news for you lily-livered luddites. The rest of us have been on zero-hours contracts for at least 10 years, so you’re long since overdue to get with the times.

And, just when you thought you’d heard it all, they go and find another reason to be disgruntled. This time I’m told they’re up in arms about ‘modern technology’ and are refusing to consider the idea of being replaced by AI-powered robots. Personally I wouldn’t be surprised to hear they want to return to using an abacus!

Could you imagine workers in India or China refusing to be only paid when they are working, or not helping management to replace them with robots? Or wanting job security. Or pensions? Or sick leave? Or safe, hospitable work places?

It’s all “me, me, me”. Never a thought for company shareholders or chief executives.

No wonder the UK isn’t competitive any more!

One of these factory workers lives locally to me. Each time I see him, he seems remarkably upbeat. I can only assume this is for one of two reasons – either the level of his current salary means he can afford to strike for so many days, or the coffers of his union are so large, they can bankroll seemingly endless industrial action.

The thought that he might actually believe in the idea of solidarity with his co-workers, or that his cause is a just one, is completely ridiculous of course!

Whatever the case, when I asked how much longer the action would continue, he confessed he had absolutely no idea - though he did smile and say he’d be hard-pressed to find a job elsewhere.

So, please don’t show these leftie, lazy workshy socialists any more sympathy.

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Chad Grunter wrote:

Striking workers are merely economic terrorists, and should be arrested and treated as such.

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Grey Mondeo Man replied:

But then they wouldn’t be able to work, would they? Good to see you’re thinking things through as well as you usually do, Chad!

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David Simile the Second replied:

A typically stupid reply from a typically stupid remoaning socialist La**or-supporting woke snowflake. Like all lazy parasitic leftist scum, you are a blight on society and as such are unable to hold any sort of discussion without resorting to vile, frothing insults. Crawl away and die, you tofu-eating, Guardian-reading pillock.

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Pseudocreem 2 wrote:

Comrades, do not vote in the next elections because all political parties are same. If no-one vote your Tories will boss, which good news for all Russian money in UK and dear Mr. Putin. 

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DailyMailBob wrote:

The only people to blame are the Union leaders aka the Communist Party workers under the guise of helping their colleagues holding the companies to ransom and the country and the government because they don't like a conservative government I hope all of you who think you will vote Lab**r take note because we won't have a country bankrupt nothing will move nothing will work and everyone will be offered benefits to stay at home and your car will be taken by starmeggedon and the borders along the south coast will be wide open and the Union leaders will be there helping people come into the country illegally with their placards and their flat caps shame on useless unions shame on lab**r voters and before you all start screaming and shouting like lefties do I gave up voting for any politician because they are all corrupt every party every politician every MP corrupted to the core they don't deserve anyone's vote least of all paying subs for Union leaders to go on five star hotel holidays I know all this is true because I read the Daily Mail every day.

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Chad Grunter replied:

Very well put!

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