If anyone is not in a union yet I’d like to say that you can join online from the Trade Union Congress website. Start associating together to protect your rights as a worker.
People need more money to cope with the increased cost of living and want to not be exploited when it comes to working hours. Shocking! Some people have definitely been inconvenienced but a strike is meant to get attention. A protest with some witty signs while the system carries on as normal would just be ignored, now you cannot turn on the news without hearing about it. It is highlighting a real issue that faces many sectors and the rail unions are going to only be the first of many to strike at this rate. Missing out on Glastonbury might suck but people need to see unions as a force for good for the average worker, not the enemy, otherwise things will never change and the government and businesses will continue to be unafraid of workers.
Well theres some insight.
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The caterer who thinks rail workers deserve a pay increase just as much as nurses teacehrs and firefighters with zero consideration that genrally railworkers are far higher paid than people in similar roles than the private sector yet all the other jobs he mentions are paid less than the private sector.
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The cleaning staff who wants £15 per hour and free travel and who gives the costs of travel which suggests they want more than double the minimum wage and considerably more than the living wage.
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The maintenance staff who ‘guarantees’ they will take his pension when that would be illegal. The worst they could do is change the structure to pay out a pension based on what has been paid in instead of throwing millions at covering up a shortfall caused by the railworkers themselves not contributing enough.
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The train dispatcher who sees nothing wrong with the taxpayer funding jobs for the boys and roles which dont need to exist. For her her railway career is just beginning. She doesnt want to be forced out because they dont want to pay. Zero realisation that she would only be made redunadant if the job she does is so worthless that its better to pay her to leave than to stay.
Guy on the left gives me real Ed Kemper vibes ngl.
But with regards to the article, none of it surprises me.
Workers rights have been ignored or eroded, people treated like crap, and ultimately no-one wants to strike and lose money – but if given no other option what do you do?
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If anyone is not in a union yet I’d like to say that you can join online from the Trade Union Congress website. Start associating together to protect your rights as a worker.
https://www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union
People need more money to cope with the increased cost of living and want to not be exploited when it comes to working hours. Shocking! Some people have definitely been inconvenienced but a strike is meant to get attention. A protest with some witty signs while the system carries on as normal would just be ignored, now you cannot turn on the news without hearing about it. It is highlighting a real issue that faces many sectors and the rail unions are going to only be the first of many to strike at this rate. Missing out on Glastonbury might suck but people need to see unions as a force for good for the average worker, not the enemy, otherwise things will never change and the government and businesses will continue to be unafraid of workers.
Well theres some insight.
​
The caterer who thinks rail workers deserve a pay increase just as much as nurses teacehrs and firefighters with zero consideration that genrally railworkers are far higher paid than people in similar roles than the private sector yet all the other jobs he mentions are paid less than the private sector.
​
The cleaning staff who wants £15 per hour and free travel and who gives the costs of travel which suggests they want more than double the minimum wage and considerably more than the living wage.
​
The maintenance staff who ‘guarantees’ they will take his pension when that would be illegal. The worst they could do is change the structure to pay out a pension based on what has been paid in instead of throwing millions at covering up a shortfall caused by the railworkers themselves not contributing enough.
​
The train dispatcher who sees nothing wrong with the taxpayer funding jobs for the boys and roles which dont need to exist. For her her railway career is just beginning. She doesnt want to be forced out because they dont want to pay. Zero realisation that she would only be made redunadant if the job she does is so worthless that its better to pay her to leave than to stay.
Guy on the left gives me real Ed Kemper vibes ngl.
But with regards to the article, none of it surprises me.
Workers rights have been ignored or eroded, people treated like crap, and ultimately no-one wants to strike and lose money – but if given no other option what do you do?