On this day in 1978, one of the first strikes of the British "Winter of Discontent" began when 15,000 Ford workers, mostly from the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), began an unofficial strike.

The Winter of Discontent took place during 1978-79 in the United Kingdom, characterized by widespread strikes from both private and public sector trade unions. Some of these industrial disputes caused great public inconvenience, exacerbated by the coldest winter in 16 years in which severe storms isolated many remote areas of the country.

On September 22nd, 1978, one of the first strikes of the "Winter of Discontent" began when 15,000 Ford workers, mostly from the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), began an unofficial strike.

The number of participants later grew to 57,000. As the months progressed, workers from multiple industries went on strike, including lorry drivers, garbage collectors, and gravediggers. It was the largest UK labor stoppage since 1926.

The Winter was a disaster for the incumbent Labour Party. The magazine Socialist Worker quoted one council worker as saying "We had to strike because Labour betrayed us".

The Labour Party was swept out of power in the 1979 election, leading to the premiership of Margaret Thatcher.

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  • silent_water [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    any of y'all ever get to the point where you're writing code and realize you need to stop because you're making a confusing mess just because you're too tired? I was halfway into 3 half-baked ideas - each partially implemented before the realization dawned on me that I needed to log off. making extra work for future silent_water is not cool! sometimes I just muddle through it and get something mostly working but that was just not happening today. can't really implement an algorithm if you can't even clearly articulate what the algorithm is supposed to do.

    I'm working too much but I have an external deadline for the end of the month. the PR for my portion of the work is fucking 5k lines of code (including tests) and I wrote most of that in the last week. I'm so tired but also so close to finishing.

    • jackal [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah there are times where I just keep coding thinking I'm in the "flow" when actually I'm just following a bad idea because I didn't plan

    • vertexarray [any]
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      2 years ago

      I had the opposite happen to me the other day, I had a clear idea of what I was trying to do, but I had eaten too many carbs so actually doing it was like wading through waist-deep water