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This strike cannot be compared with that of Solidarity in1980 when the Polish workers rose up against a puppet government controlled by a foreign regime. That strike was supported by every Polish workers.
This SMRT strike, however, is started by foreign workers against a local government who hesitates to take strong action against them without considering the economic and political backlash from the big foreign country. Not many local workers support this foreign strike.
This is a total mix-up of Gdańsk 1980 with Danzig 1939………This may be a more appropriate music to reflect the sentiments of the foreign workers and their supporters of this strike, especially those in the Chinese microblogs:
Your analogy with Danzig 1939 seems to be based on the fact that there are more and more PRCs in SINKIELAND and therefore SINKIELAND will one day be annexed by PRC. This analogy is totally misplaced. I will refrain from calling you names.
Background on Gdansk (formerly known as Danzig) from Wikipedia:
“When Poland regained its independence after World War I with access to the sea as promised by the Allies on the basis of Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” (point 13 called for "an independent Polish state", "which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea"), the Poles hoped the city's harbour would also become part of Poland. However, since Germans formed a majority in the city, with Poles being a minority, the city was not placed under Polish sovereignty. Instead, in accordance with the terms of the Versailles Treaty, it became the Free City of Danzig, an independent quasi-state under the auspices of the League of Nations with its external affairs largely under Polish control. Poland's rights also included free usage of the harbour, a Polish post office, a garrison in Westerplatte district, customs union with Poland etc. This led to a considerable tension between the city and the surrounding Republic of Poland. The Free City had its own constitution, national anthem, parliament (Volkstag), and government (Senat). It issued its own stamps as well as currency.
The German population of the Free City of Danzig favored reincorporation into Germany. …… Hitler used the issue of the status of the city as a pretext for attacking Poland …… As Nazi demands increased, German-Polish relations rapidly deteriorated. Germany invaded Poland on September 1 after having signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union in late August. The German attack began in Danzig, …...”
In 1939, the population of the free city of Danzig was 90% German! And Germany is right next door! Only an idiot will not want to be reunited with the German motherland and continue to be subject to Polish dominance! Therefore, your analogy is totally false and inappropriate.
For SINKIELAND, PRC has no interest in annexing a small peesai island thousands of miles away in a sea full of Malays. Cheap workers from the PRC and elsewhere were imported by a PAP government elected by a bunch of 60% daft and ball-less SINKIES. The PRC government did not ask the SINKIES' government to do this as a favour. The PAP government did it in order to enrich themselves and their cronies and to make up for their inability to create quality economic growth. The effect of this mass and indiscriminate importation of cheap labour is to suppress wages – of SINKIES. These damn useless SINKIES did not rise up to block this importation mainly because:
1) They have been brainwashed to be selfish and cowardly;
2) Their trade union, the NTUC, is not independent or self-governing and filled with Minions from the PAP; and
3) They are too STUPID to realize that better working conditions for foreign labour means better working conditions for them because it reduces the incentive to import cheap labour and reduces the employers’ power to suppress their wages through such importation.
It is appropriate to compare this strike with Solidarity because Solidarity started as a strike but snowballed into a social and political movement. By 1980, Gdansk and its population had become largely Polish. The Germans were expelled as part of ethnic cleansing following World War II.
In SINKIELAND, since SINKIES are cowardly, a strike, if it is to start at all, had to be by more brave souls like the PRC drivers. Whether or not it will snowball into a movement like Solidarity with the initial primary demand being truly independent trade unions and then followed by political and civil liberalisation depends on whether SINKIES wake up or stay SELFISH, MYOPIC, STUPID and COWARDLY.
Many myopic SINKIES are happy that PRC bus drivers are paid lower than SINKIE bus drivers. Makes them feel that being a SINKIE has some privileges. This is the DUMBEST thing that I’ve heard. All bus drivers should be paid the same wages whatever their nationality. Then the bus companies have no incentive to import foreign bus drivers and the SINKIE bus drivers’ jobs are more secure as a result. If the bus company uses this as an excuse to raise fares, the strike instead of coming from the bus drivers will come from the bus riders – it is called a boycott or street protest. The same logic applies to other industries. Since SINKIES have no balls to do any of these, therefore they have to accept whatever crap the PAP throws at them and watch at the sidelines while the PRC bus drivers show them how it’s done.
Remember, this strike would not have happened if the NTUC had been a GENUINE trade union that stood up for workers’ rights instead of a FAKE union filled with Party Minions like Zorro. Many years ago, a NTUC employee stood for election on the Opposition ticket. Once the election was over, he was immediately fired and the reason given by one PAP MP, Lawrence Xia, was that the NTUC and the PAP are one and the same!
