The national post strike began today after Communication Workers Union leaders refused a last-minute plea to turn their backs on 'suicidal' industrial action, the Daily Mail says. Full story >>
VOCABULARY
A lemming is an animal that looks like a large rat with thick fur. Lemmings live in cold northern regions and sometimes travel in very large numbers. If you say that a large group of people are acting like lemmings, you are critical of them because they all follow each other into an action without thinking about it. The postal strike has been likened to lemmings diving off a cliff. However, while many people believe that lemmings commit mass suicide when they migrate, Wikipedia informs us that this is a misconception.
