[dijit]

Its interesting to note though that strikes are despised by the british population.

My mother for example will bang on for hours about how doctors and nurses have it so great and they're being greedy and unreasonable.

Ditto rail drivers. (something I actually agree with in the case of TfL underground drivers).

Theres just a really large cultural difference here, though I think there is at least one red thread to our media.

[southerntofu]

Who is "the population"? Here in France there's a major difference between people who watch the news and those who live in the real world. On the news we get fed propaganda by the business owners and fascist apparatus about all the privileged rail workers and nurses and how their striking is pure nonsense.