Well, as always when a Govt. & top managers have lost trust of a public sector work-force, and fail to settle a long running industrial dispute, the next step is pretty much always the consideration of a ban on striking altogether.
So, you'll be unsurprised that NHS senior managers, after three years of on-off conflict with Resident Doctors, are asking Wes Streeting to consider a legal ban on strikes by doctors. Streeting has so far demurred but how much longer?
@ChrisMayLA6
The classic paradox, workers so vital you consider removing their ability to strike but not vital enough that you can pay them what they are worth.
@raymierussell @ChrisMayLA6 If that truly is the case, the workers should all simply quit. If they are as valuable as implied, the company will increase the salaries. If not, they were never that valuable to begin with.
A market test that many might shy away from....
@ChrisMayLA6 @raymierussell This is the truth, but it is also a shame, because it gives you a very certain answer to the question. If you are in the right, when it comes to the belief in your value to the company, it can also be very lucrative. If not, it can be a ery humbling experience.
It is my personal experience, that very rarely are you irreplaceable in a medium to large size company, so these operations should only be engaged in if you are absolutely certain.
@ChrisMayLA6 @raymierussell This is the truth, and this is why I say that this tactic is more difficult the bigger the company.
In small companies, the manager cannot hide, the larger the organization, the more political managers become, and like in politics, the longer they can stay on while being a drain on the organization.
@h4890 @raymierussell
But it also assumes that in the immediate moment of confrontation the managers are both fair in their assessment of your actual wider worth to the firm/organisation & not annoyed with you for even doubting this judgement.
As you now I think one of the problems in the UK is with managers who are more interested in their own power than in what is good for their enterprise