(09 Nov 2023, 12:32 pm)streetdeckfan wrote To apply pressure by turning the public against them.
It's funny to see how it's perfectly fine for the unions to do this, but when the companies do exactly the same thing back it's bad.
What a load of nonsense. You know fine well that it's the responsibility of the company to provide the service that they've committed to delivering, whether that be their own commercial offerings or the public sector work they've signed a contract to take on. If they've pushed their workforce to the point that they're out on strike, then that is also their responsibility to resolve.
Nobody wants to go out on strike. It's an absolute last resort, because even when it's 'resolved', there's often months if not years of animosity to deal with, both amongst the workforce and between management & workers. No Union ever calls a strike with the sole aim to disrupt the public, but it's unavoidable in some sectors.
The difference here is that you have a company putting out propaganda and frankly outrageous statements, whereas the Union is simply continuing it's strike action. If you take the rose-tinted glasses off for a second, you'll see how blatant it is that GNE are trying to win a dispute by creating a culture war. It's an absolutely ridiculous way to behave, when at the end of the day, those Union members out on strike are still their employees.