aight imma start heading out. According to Google, I should arrive in London from Manchester in 59 hours by foot.
Well… Here’s hoping I’m off that day
They have my support.
People are striking because asking for reasonable pay increases doesn’t work.
This is not the first step this is a last stand.
Loving the fact that people are standing up for them selves and fighting the right way rather than rolling over but a bit sad that nobody even noticed when British gas went on strike when getting their t&C’s destroyed
Meanwhile, we are going into a third week of a bus strike in the North West not that the rest of the country would know because it is unreported in national media.
We should have a general strike since nothing seems to be functioning properly.
Remember, if you’re annoyed you’re not getting a decent wage increase join a union and do your own protest.
It’s not these workers taking your money and ruining your cost of living. It’s the executives and politicians taking the cream off the top of your hard work.
Coming to a reality near you…
Monday: Transport strike
Tuesday: Nurses strike
Wednesday: Teacher strike
Thursday: Social services strike
Friday: Doctors strike
Unfortunately, despite public support, our MPs are not going on strike (they’ve already paid themselves nicely) and so will continue to make our lives worse on a daily basis.
Forget the cost of living increase issue, bus drivers have always been massively underpaid. I can see why there’s often a debate that train drivers are overpaid but I’m certain that we can all agree that bus drivers are massively underpaid for what the job entails.
I also think the job is many times harder than driving a train. There’s just constant hazard after hazard you have to watch out for, theres countless bikes, cars, and pedestrians that are all around you and can cut in front of you whenever. Can’t look away for a second. You’re not on set bus only rails like with a train, and the route is never clear like with trains. You have to make and follow your own path and around things that are constantly on your route like bikes and parked cars. Then on top of all that you essentially also have the job of a conductor/customer service person so its a customer facing roll. Again not like trains where you don’t need to worry about dealing with customers, you’re left alone to concentrate just on moving the train. Buses share the road with people who dont follow laws or dont even know the laws since you dont need a license to be on the road, with trains only highly trained people are on the tracks. This isn’t even taking into account all the automatic train operation/self driving driving features that most London Tube drivers get to use.
All that and they’re are like not even half of a train drivers wage? They make around £30k in London I think which is nothing for there. They get less than a taxi driver but having to drive a vehicle 10x as big and with over 10x as many passengers. I hate driving around central London in a car let alone in a bus with many passengers on board and barely earning enough to just about survive on in London.
I’m honestly surprised that we’re able to keep enough bus drivers employed at their wage. Out of any public transport type of job I think they’re the ones who mostly deserve a big wage. Even a 20% pay rise wouldn’t even seem worth it.
Maybe the much lower running and upkeep costs of electric buses will make it more viable to pay bus drivers more by passing some of the savings on into their salaries.
Wasn’t it supposed to be Labour who caused chaos?
Good, more more more lets have every worker in the UK out on strike delivery drivers call centres, fast food, shop worrkers warehouse staff nurses, care workers…. GENERAL STRIKE NOW!!!!
We should be having a general strike at this point, seems like the government aren’t interested.
Yesssss the best way to do it is synchronised strikes shows unity and agreement across the board by everyone that things need to change
Da iawn bus drivers!!!
Good. It’s the only thing these technocrats will respond too
japanese bus drivers had al alternative form of strike, they showed up to work, drove their routes, but refused to charge fares.
it appealed to my enjoyment of disruptive compliance.
It’s just the beginning of month I am ready broke.
People deserve a living wage. No matter what. It’s disgusting that people have to pick between eating and heating this coming winter. Kids not being fed properly is just heart breaking.
Sure there is an argument that we haven’t lived within our means but this is a matter of survival now. These clowns need to do something
HOLY SHIT THIS OF GOING TO CONSTIPATE LONDON’S ROADS AND ECONOMY HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHABAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Come on Extinction Rebellion get some road block protests going as well and the whole capital can grind to a dam holt, except those dam cyclists with their logical forms of transport.
In before all the people saying strike action over intolerable workplaces is inconsiderate to others, because if *they’re* late getting to their work for reasons outside of their control *they’ll* get in trouble….
People are slaves to the machine
Cmon cabbies….. what you waiting for! 😉
I’m glad I’m housebound and don’t live in London. Nothing will come of it though in the long run.
I’m sorry. I appreciate everybodies right-to-strike over pay and conditions. BUT this appears to be vindictive political manipulation. How are emergency and manufacturing workers supposed to deal with this?
If it hurts working class workers to that degree then that protest is not about workers rights and pay, it’s about political agitation.
Go on people, stand up for what you want.
I listened to Newscast yesterday and apparently the BoE is hoping to increase unemployment to suppress wage increases and thereby inflation. Why does it have to only hit the people actually working and not the millionaires?
Lmao Pokémon world championships are around this time being hosted at Excel. It’s going to cause a lot of disruption I reckon
Good. If they want chaos then give them chaos. Eventually they’ll have to do something or they’ll be faced with genuine violence.
That’ll be fun
Wish people would strike for other things like global democracy, climate change and dictatorships in the same way they strike for their own pockets.
The next level way to strike is the way local bus drivers did once in Japan. They worked as normal but wouldn’t take payment. That got their bosses’ attention.
Work From Home just got real.
This mainly affects bus wankers, so no problem.
About time that they are starting to coordinate strikes. Most effective way short of a general strike
The torys and press make out there a bunch of overpaid lay abouts but London grinds to halt without them……
Just googled my walk to work.. 4 hours 6 minutes apparently.
Yay
Oh no! The impact this will have on my commute from the bedroom to my front room…
work from home for the continued win
Good. More people need to strike. The county, unfortunately, needs to be brought to it’s knees
39 comments
aight imma start heading out. According to Google, I should arrive in London from Manchester in 59 hours by foot.
Well… Here’s hoping I’m off that day
They have my support.
People are striking because asking for reasonable pay increases doesn’t work.
This is not the first step this is a last stand.
Loving the fact that people are standing up for them selves and fighting the right way rather than rolling over but a bit sad that nobody even noticed when British gas went on strike when getting their t&C’s destroyed
Meanwhile, we are going into a third week of a bus strike in the North West not that the rest of the country would know because it is unreported in national media.
We should have a general strike since nothing seems to be functioning properly.
Remember, if you’re annoyed you’re not getting a decent wage increase join a union and do your own protest.
It’s not these workers taking your money and ruining your cost of living. It’s the executives and politicians taking the cream off the top of your hard work.
Coming to a reality near you…
Monday: Transport strike
Tuesday: Nurses strike
Wednesday: Teacher strike
Thursday: Social services strike
Friday: Doctors strike
Unfortunately, despite public support, our MPs are not going on strike (they’ve already paid themselves nicely) and so will continue to make our lives worse on a daily basis.
Forget the cost of living increase issue, bus drivers have always been massively underpaid. I can see why there’s often a debate that train drivers are overpaid but I’m certain that we can all agree that bus drivers are massively underpaid for what the job entails.
I also think the job is many times harder than driving a train. There’s just constant hazard after hazard you have to watch out for, theres countless bikes, cars, and pedestrians that are all around you and can cut in front of you whenever. Can’t look away for a second. You’re not on set bus only rails like with a train, and the route is never clear like with trains. You have to make and follow your own path and around things that are constantly on your route like bikes and parked cars. Then on top of all that you essentially also have the job of a conductor/customer service person so its a customer facing roll. Again not like trains where you don’t need to worry about dealing with customers, you’re left alone to concentrate just on moving the train. Buses share the road with people who dont follow laws or dont even know the laws since you dont need a license to be on the road, with trains only highly trained people are on the tracks. This isn’t even taking into account all the automatic train operation/self driving driving features that most London Tube drivers get to use.
All that and they’re are like not even half of a train drivers wage? They make around £30k in London I think which is nothing for there. They get less than a taxi driver but having to drive a vehicle 10x as big and with over 10x as many passengers. I hate driving around central London in a car let alone in a bus with many passengers on board and barely earning enough to just about survive on in London.
I’m honestly surprised that we’re able to keep enough bus drivers employed at their wage. Out of any public transport type of job I think they’re the ones who mostly deserve a big wage. Even a 20% pay rise wouldn’t even seem worth it.
Maybe the much lower running and upkeep costs of electric buses will make it more viable to pay bus drivers more by passing some of the savings on into their salaries.
Wasn’t it supposed to be Labour who caused chaos?
Good, more more more lets have every worker in the UK out on strike delivery drivers call centres, fast food, shop worrkers warehouse staff nurses, care workers…. GENERAL STRIKE NOW!!!!
We should be having a general strike at this point, seems like the government aren’t interested.
Yesssss the best way to do it is synchronised strikes shows unity and agreement across the board by everyone that things need to change
Da iawn bus drivers!!!
Good. It’s the only thing these technocrats will respond too
japanese bus drivers had al alternative form of strike, they showed up to work, drove their routes, but refused to charge fares.
it appealed to my enjoyment of disruptive compliance.
It’s just the beginning of month I am ready broke.
People deserve a living wage. No matter what. It’s disgusting that people have to pick between eating and heating this coming winter. Kids not being fed properly is just heart breaking.
Sure there is an argument that we haven’t lived within our means but this is a matter of survival now. These clowns need to do something
HOLY SHIT THIS OF GOING TO CONSTIPATE LONDON’S ROADS AND ECONOMY HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHABAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Come on Extinction Rebellion get some road block protests going as well and the whole capital can grind to a dam holt, except those dam cyclists with their logical forms of transport.
In before all the people saying strike action over intolerable workplaces is inconsiderate to others, because if *they’re* late getting to their work for reasons outside of their control *they’ll* get in trouble….
People are slaves to the machine
Cmon cabbies….. what you waiting for! 😉
I’m glad I’m housebound and don’t live in London. Nothing will come of it though in the long run.
I’m sorry. I appreciate everybodies right-to-strike over pay and conditions. BUT this appears to be vindictive political manipulation. How are emergency and manufacturing workers supposed to deal with this?
If it hurts working class workers to that degree then that protest is not about workers rights and pay, it’s about political agitation.
Go on people, stand up for what you want.
I listened to Newscast yesterday and apparently the BoE is hoping to increase unemployment to suppress wage increases and thereby inflation. Why does it have to only hit the people actually working and not the millionaires?
Lmao Pokémon world championships are around this time being hosted at Excel. It’s going to cause a lot of disruption I reckon
Good. If they want chaos then give them chaos. Eventually they’ll have to do something or they’ll be faced with genuine violence.
That’ll be fun
Wish people would strike for other things like global democracy, climate change and dictatorships in the same way they strike for their own pockets.
The next level way to strike is the way local bus drivers did once in Japan. They worked as normal but wouldn’t take payment. That got their bosses’ attention.
Work From Home just got real.
This mainly affects bus wankers, so no problem.
About time that they are starting to coordinate strikes. Most effective way short of a general strike
The torys and press make out there a bunch of overpaid lay abouts but London grinds to halt without them……
Just googled my walk to work.. 4 hours 6 minutes apparently.
Yay
Oh no! The impact this will have on my commute from the bedroom to my front room…
work from home for the continued win
Good. More people need to strike. The county, unfortunately, needs to be brought to it’s knees