@cyu@sh.itjust.worksM to unions@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 10 months agoThree simultaneous strikes at Luton Airport: ground handlers, cleaners, car park workerswww.unitetheunion.orgexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down13cross-posted to: unions@lemmy.ml
arrow-up139arrow-down1external-linkThree simultaneous strikes at Luton Airport: ground handlers, cleaners, car park workerswww.unitetheunion.org@cyu@sh.itjust.worksM to unions@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 10 months agomessage-square4fedilinkcross-posted to: unions@lemmy.ml
minus-square@JallulinkEnglish6•10 months agoIsn’t there a better word for this in the context than “strikes”? Some airfields elsewhere have been facing a bit different “strikes”. Maybe I have been under the influence of different types of news.
minus-square@ironeagl@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish3•10 months agoYou weren’t the only one. “Strike” has at least two other meanings that came to mind first (terror attack, plane crash).
minus-square@EdanGrey@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish3•10 months agoIn the UK right now strikes are daily news. Noone in the UK would misunderstand that headline
minus-square@Huxleywaswrite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•10 months agoThey could have just said ‘labor strikes’
Isn’t there a better word for this in the context than “strikes”? Some airfields elsewhere have been facing a bit different “strikes”. Maybe I have been under the influence of different types of news.
You weren’t the only one. “Strike” has at least two other meanings that came to mind first (terror attack, plane crash).
In the UK right now strikes are daily news. Noone in the UK would misunderstand that headline
They could have just said ‘labor strikes’