In my opinion, it just makes the country look a complete shambles in the eyes of the world. We have one chance to prove ourselves, and there's always someone who wants to ruin it, and in this case those who strike. It's our country and we should be proud to be hosting something of this scale, but no - they'd rather show us all up.
I totally agree.
Strike, by all means. Strike during the working week, during the run up to Christmas, hell ... strike during the Jubilee weekend. That affects many of us in the U.K. and we would expect it, put up with it, and many would agree with your actions, myself included.
But not this month, not whilst we have one chance to show the world what we, as a nation, can do.
Yes, you may not get an extra five hundred pounds for working through the
Olympics (Yes, I know this isn't the only issue), but in the long run, look at it from the poiint of view of Mr and Mrs Tourist, sitting in front of their tele with some spare cash to go somewhere on holiday. They may just, after watching the experience of fellow tourists going to the Olympics, choose to spend their hard earned cash, coming to the U.K, to London, and maybe on your companies trains ..... or they may go somewhere else with less disruption.
Let's look at the long game ... we'll all be better off in the long run. Otherwise, the Commonwealth Games in 2014 and the World Athletics Championships in 2017, which are the only things we are hosting and the various organisations are committed to, may be the last world class events we get.
Then where may we be .... Greece springs to mind ...!!!