BT strike could affect internet and phone connections

Thu May 27 18:22:18 UTC 2010

On 5/27/2010 14:16, David Reader wrote:
> On Thu, 27 May 2010 15:48:09 +0000 (GMT)
> Tim Franklin <tim at pelican.org> wrote:
> 
>> Clearly BT engineers being on strike will stop broken things from
>> being fixed[0].  I'm very unclear how it will cause things that are
>> working today to suddenly "go into meltdown"...
> 
> Quite, and.. it's not unheard-of for reliability of services to
> actually improve when no-one's mucking about with them!

however during a strike, the strikers will be destroying their companies
network.  Think about a firebomb down a man hole and no one to fix it, bullet
holes through switch gear and the like.  Unions fight dirty.

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