Guardian: Workers reject strike weapon
Workers are much less likely to go on strike than they were in the 1970s and 1980s as the UK goes into a recession, according to union activists and industrial relations experts.
Last month, in a groundbreaking agreement, union members at digger firm JCB voted to take a cut in wages to save 322 jobs. Union leaders there said that workers had no appetite for industrial action to try to prevent all compulsory redundancies.
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