22 - Benno's Brief: Strikes!

Strikes by public sector workers, teachers, Nurses, midwives, hospital workers, bus and train drivers, civil servants have been kicking off all over Australia in recent months. There also been important and modest increase strike action in the transport, university, private education and even a successful strike in the retail sector by book shop workers.Meanwhile strikes have in recent months breaking out across the world in reaction to post-pandemic conditions, cost of living crisis and realisation of many workers that they may have been lied to when they were told they were ‘essential’.So, what is a strike and what isn’t one and why you should be into them? On this episode of Do’h Kapital, Benno’s brief will have a little chat about one of his most favorite things in the whole wide world: strikes.Subscribe to this podcast and become a patreon www.patreon.com/dohkapital We are on Facebook and active on Twitter handle @dohkapitalOh solidarity and victory to the NSW/ACT educators in both the public and private sectors that have voted to strike on the 30 June. And of course the RMT union in the UK that is striking and doing a better job as the opposition to Tory party rule than the pathetic leadership of UK Labour’s Parliamentary Party.