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Originally Posted by kazanne
My brother is a fireman and a lot of them do not want to strike,but he cannot take the engine out on his own,and Angus you are right in the fact that most days are mundane and some none eventful,but there are times when he does come home stressed from a bad accident but he knows that is his job and he is quite happy doing it,the only thing that is worrying him at the moment is not his wages,as such,but his job, the fact that the services are being cut down,he would rather keep his job than lose it altogether.
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My ex husband was the same - he loved his job, it was more a vocation than anything for him, and he hated the unions (at least we had that much in common!). He won several awards for bravery about which he was quite modest, since he was old school and believed that he was simply doing the job for which he had been superbly trained and which he had chosen.
The unions purport to be there to support their members, but many times its the workers whose jobs are on the line that suffer when imprudent and cynical strikes fail- the fat cat union bosses can then slink away back to their bloated lifestyles having left mayhem in their wake.
Striking at any time of the year is bad enough, but bonfire night? All that does for the public is fuel resentment at being held to ransom by the unions yet again.