Strikers should try another viewpoint

WITH the public sector unions announcing another strike threat for next week, I wonder how they would react if private sector workers decided to respond in kind, withdrawing service from them for a change.

Public sector strikers are arrogant in their confidence that they can hurt everyone else, and that they can do it without repayment in kind ... but they’re wrong.

It would be fairly easy to organise retaliation. As they deal with each new customer, private sector workers — particularly frontline workers — could easily ask, “did you participate in the public sector strike”? If the answer was yes, then the private sector worker would refuse to provide service to the striker until he or she had built up eight hours of payback for each day that the public sector goes on strike.