• Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    That sounds a lot like the Japanese transit protests. The lines still ran as normal but they refused to collect payment. Nobody impacted but the transit lines.

    That’s a good system. It puts the consequences squarely where they belong, and only where they belong.

    • BJHanssen@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Most such tactics are explicitly illegal in the UK, unfortunately. Basically, the legal framework for labour strikes in the UK is set up to maximise inconvenience to the public and minimise the tools (and effectiveness of those tools) available to the workers and their unions.