One must ask two things here:fifthcolumn wrote:Wow. The same failed ideas of the 1970s come back to haunt us.
Bring back constant strikes, power cuts, bin lorry strikes etc
Oh wait....
1. Are you referring in "the same failed ideas of the 1970s" to the three-day-week policy used during the '73-'74 energy crisis?
2. If so, then surely you must realise that this is a completely different situation here? We are talking about a one-day reduction of the working week with no overall loss of hours in response to aslow and encroachingproblem, rather than a two-day reduction with loss of hours in response to an acute crisis (or a political ploy to make the miners look responsible, which backfired).
3. Constant strikes &c.? I assume you are implying this, but of couse some of these are already here...