Is there a point when striking becomes immoral?
| 09:32 UK time, Monday, 6 September 2010
Aids patients are and with exams looming and absent teachers, students have resorted to . Here's .
We aren't dealing with small numbers here. 1.3. Million public service workers are on strike putting the country's .
sums up the dilmemna,
'Their wages are ridiculously low, and they are asking for an 8.6% increase, still not up to American minimum wage, but closer. It is working on its fourth week right now, and the repercussions have been tragic. Hospital patients are dying due to reduced care, children across the country are losing out on education, and riots are forming. This strike, if it continues any longer, will be the longest stoppage in work since the end of Apartheid in '94. That, paired with massive public opposition to President Jacob Zuma, has made this strike a much bigger deal that anyone anticipated. It may ultimately decide more than wages.'
The Government has thrown their way over the course of the past month and strikers are lulling over the .
But Harus Mutasa has zero sympathy for the strikers calling them
'I don't know about you, but it's hard for me to feel sorry for anyone who says they don't care if students fail their exams, or worse, that they don't care if people die in the hospitals so long as they get their money.
Surely there has to be another way to push for what you want without dragging the entire country down with you?'
With the country still recovering from the , have the South African strikes become immoral? Or do you admire the strikers for standing by their cause?
