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happybaboon
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10519810
Soooo..... They're planning on winning people's sympathy by way of inconveniencing the entire nation? Is that about right? 
Bring on the upgraded rail network - get some of those arrogant kcirps off the roads 
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Oli
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Yes, they're definitely best to strike in a way that doesn't inconvenience anyone - that's how it's usually done. 
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musket
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| Posted: Thu 3rd Jul 11:20pm Post subject: |
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Perhaps some polite leaflet drops outside of work hours? Or a letter to their MP?
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Oli
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| Posted: Thu 3rd Jul 11:23pm Post subject: |
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Maybe an internet forum?
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happybaboon
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| Posted: Thu 3rd Jul 11:24pm Post subject: |
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I just think a better way to protest would be something that would justify their cause in the minds of the public, rather than just stopping people from getting to work tomorrow.
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musket
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| Posted: Thu 3rd Jul 11:24pm Post subject: |
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kumbay ya?
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radical_edward
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| Posted: Thu 3rd Jul 11:27pm Post subject: |
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What about drive to work day? Everybody who normally rides a bike or takes the bus takes their car instead. That will sort em.
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Oli
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| Posted: Thu 3rd Jul 11:27pm Post subject: |
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Strikes are all about getting attention. Like the nurses strike. The doctors strike. Like the endless ferry strikes of the Muldoon years. Like the Waterfront Strikes.
The public inconvenience garners attention. As they say, any publicity is good publicity.
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musket
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| Posted: Thu 3rd Jul 11:29pm Post subject: |
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Yep, because as much as people get annoyed with the strikers, they look to govt to SORT it. And the govt has to sort it by negotiating.
It's the only way, and it's all about leverage.
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Colin
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| Posted: Thu 3rd Jul 11:42pm Post subject: |
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Lie in the pit for an hour or two longer.
Wonder down town about 9:3 ish.
Pick up a coffee, skim the newspaper.
Roll into work some time after 10:30 muttering bloody truckers.
Doesn't seem too bad a way to start P.O.E.T.S. day to me.
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wachtourak
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| Posted: Fri 4th Jul 7:05am Post subject: |
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Already a thread about this somewhere, like I said, they should have police marksmen on the motorway overbridges and shoot them in the gnikcuf heads for being roznucs
woo look at me in my truck making trouble for the establishment
deliver my bread and milk you roznucs, and get a move on
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Scotty
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| Posted: Fri 4th Jul 7:12am Post subject: |
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A bunch of whiny little hctibes would be a better term.....
1) EVERYONE IS DOING IT HARD kcuf-KNCUCKLES.
2) You were given warning last time and that led to outright wholesale abuse of the system. Now you wanna cry about it?
3) 18 wheels really REALLY kcuf the road, if you were to do a weight/wheel comparison you'd probably find truckies don't do so bad! (not the most salient of points, I know...)
4) Truckies will just do what they usually do anyway, and pass the cost onto the consumer.
Interesting this is happening in the same week the gubberment got rail too...
No sympathy from me (in case the tone of my post hadn't got that across) 
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Scotty
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...and now Annette king is goign to "re-examine" the formula for RU charged.
Standard Labour party action, the lack of testicular fortitude to follow through in even more stupid.
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Dazzle
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| Posted: Fri 4th Jul 7:24am Post subject: |
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Compared to the wild cat full on militant blockades the truckers in France use, this is all pretty tame stuff.
I am going to watch all the trucks roll past the office window, as they protest the per km tax ..... by doing nonbillable km around the cbd.
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scatter
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| Posted: Fri 4th Jul 7:26am Post subject: |
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I say good on 'em!
About time we started getting active in our protests......need to stop being so bloody British and get a bit more Gallic!
Scotty - re: passing the cost onto the consumer. Would you be prepared to run a business at a loss?
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