Opposing Team - Opening Speech

Striking is one of our primary rights but the general public is not aware of it. Indeed opponents try deliberately to deceive you by turning it into what it is not.

Let us think about it. What s the purpose of striking ? Our dear fellow of the opposing team might tell you it sums up to some sort of blackmailing : if you do not give me better working conditions, i will tear the society apart by blocking public transportation, medical facilities or anything that could satisfy my weariless thirst of disaster. The intension of the strikes these days due to the financial-turmoil-turned-into-a-globalized-crisis and the growing deafness of our statesmen (we will come to that later) might misleadingly arouse you that sort of ideas.

Here is the truth. Striking is only the ultimate means of expression. Once talks with the executive failed, once unions negociations aborted, once seething masses feel abandonned and doomed, striking is the last resort, the only remaining means of expressing our craving for change. If you do not offer the possibility to workers to be heard and understood, we all might encounter greater catastrophe.

On a less gloomy and ominous tone, it is like exercising overmuch. The next day one of your prostrate muscle might hurt for a few hours. Thus you become aware of the burden it bore and the next time you will pay more attention to it. This works the same with the strikers. Few instants of pain to point out greater suffering to come. Should we take pills never to feel that pain, like Tour de France contenders do - and die of afterwards ?

Do not swallow that pill our dear fellow proposers smirkingly proffer. The right to strike is the right to be heard when the society turn a deaf ear to your beseeching. Repulse the gag that shadows your mouth. Make some noise. Vote for us.