If I'm unhappy in my job because it's demanding too many hours or not paying enough it's my responsibility to find another job. If my class of job does not meet my expectations, or takes me away from my family for too long, or risks my health it's down to me to retrain and find an alternative.
It would be highly unethical for me to say "If you don't pay me more money I'm going to screw up the BGP peering in Telehouse and bring the UK Internet to a crawl" and yet that's what we seem to be saying is ok for tube drivers. Why should they be able to hold London to ransom just because they can't be bothered to retrain for another job?
I do agree that in the case of certain people (e.g. those approaching retirement) it would be virtually impossible to retrain as no one would employ them; however age discrimination law is supposed to be applied. This isn't the case for the majority of people, though.
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Date: 2006-01-09 09:40 am (UTC)It would be highly unethical for me to say "If you don't pay me more money I'm going to screw up the BGP peering in Telehouse and bring the UK Internet to a crawl" and yet that's what we seem to be saying is ok for tube drivers. Why should they be able to hold London to ransom just because they can't be bothered to retrain for another job?
I do agree that in the case of certain people (e.g. those approaching retirement) it would be virtually impossible to retrain as no one would employ them; however age discrimination law is supposed to be applied. This isn't the case for the majority of people, though.