Remember, this dispute isn’t primarily about money. The Tory/Murdoch propaganda juggernaut will try and have you believe that but it’s simply not true.
The government want to carve up terms, conditions and working practises which WILL cause deaths. The RMT should not be vilified for fighting for people’s lives. The government wants to cut track maintenance budgets by 50% and want to do away with preventative maintenance, choosing to adopt a ‘fix on failure’ attitude, I.E only fix the track when it breaks. How safe does that sound? They also want to reduce minimum time between shifts to 9 hours from 12 hours, despite the fact that worker fatigue was found to be the cause of the Clapham rail disaster which claimed 35 lives. They also want to close all ticket offices all over the country, costing thousands and thousands of jobs. Those are the main points, there are dozens more minor points that this dispute involves before we even get to the issue of money.
Even if it was JUST about money, MP’s just enjoyed quite a healthy pay rise without having to fight about it or even get cross. They just got it. So if you think that rail workers are a bunch of greedy cunts and still vote Conservative then quite frankly you’re an imbecile.
Edit: Just wanted to add that the RMT does not represent train drivers so the people chiming in with “aReN’t TrAiN dRiVeRs PaId EnOuGh?!!! WhAt AbOuT nUrSeS?!?!” are wildly off the mark every time an article about the RMT strikes is posted here.
Everyone’s okay with the rail companies shareholders are all foreign hedgefunds and princelings with no hat in the ring, right? We’re all on the same page on this, yes?
As you were then…..
If we didn’t have a gov full of fucking useless tossers this shit would haven’t even started
You, too, deserve to be able to stand for better wages and conditions.
If anyone wants to know what the future holds if the government/toc’s get their way, just look over the water at America, train staff banned from striking, lack of maintenance, workforce decimated, no guaranteed sick time off, on standby most days – 4 derailments *this week alone!* One a catastrophic chemical spill…
I’m an RMT member at one of the few places not taking industrial action (for now).
Solidarity to everyone who is, keep fighting.
This sucks because I actually have plans for one of those days. Plans a few people will need to use the train for, and I’ve poked one of the organisers with the news.
However, I do have options for getting to this event. I can get the bus, although it’ll be slow and complicated (three buses, to be precise, in each direction). I can hope for _some_ service, at least to where I’d only need to catch one bus. Or I can just go for easy mode and bribe my brother to drive me there, with an offer of fuel and fast food from somewhere he likes in the area I want to go to.
The train is the most obvious way of getting there. It’s just not my only option.
(Now, if there’s a strike on a specific Friday in July, or the following Monday, then I’d definitely be scrambling… it looks like I’d need to get to the area the day before, because NatEx would get me to the coach station _much_ too late.)
Happily throwing other people who are worse off under the bus
Just never content what they have, are they?
Sorry if I am being dumb but if it not about money why do they ask for more money when it’s about conditions why not make promises to make conditions better rather then say her %% extra
> 18 and 30 March and be followed by a further walkout on 1 April.
> Network Rail members will take strike action over 16 and 17 March.
Selfishly was hoping one of the days fell on a Wednesday so I wouldn’t have to come in.
If you don’t want an East Palestine (Ohio) situation in Britain, start backing the unions.
Anyone know how chaotic the service is either side of a strike?
I am meant to be flying from LHR on the 18th, so was going to get the train down from Newcastle.
But will probably get the train on the 17th which is a non-strike day. Just not sure how mental the trains will be.
Good for them. For all our safety let’s hope they win this.
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Remember, this dispute isn’t primarily about money. The Tory/Murdoch propaganda juggernaut will try and have you believe that but it’s simply not true.
The government want to carve up terms, conditions and working practises which WILL cause deaths. The RMT should not be vilified for fighting for people’s lives. The government wants to cut track maintenance budgets by 50% and want to do away with preventative maintenance, choosing to adopt a ‘fix on failure’ attitude, I.E only fix the track when it breaks. How safe does that sound? They also want to reduce minimum time between shifts to 9 hours from 12 hours, despite the fact that worker fatigue was found to be the cause of the Clapham rail disaster which claimed 35 lives. They also want to close all ticket offices all over the country, costing thousands and thousands of jobs. Those are the main points, there are dozens more minor points that this dispute involves before we even get to the issue of money.
Even if it was JUST about money, MP’s just enjoyed quite a healthy pay rise without having to fight about it or even get cross. They just got it. So if you think that rail workers are a bunch of greedy cunts and still vote Conservative then quite frankly you’re an imbecile.
Edit: Just wanted to add that the RMT does not represent train drivers so the people chiming in with “aReN’t TrAiN dRiVeRs PaId EnOuGh?!!! WhAt AbOuT nUrSeS?!?!” are wildly off the mark every time an article about the RMT strikes is posted here.
Everyone’s okay with the rail companies shareholders are all foreign hedgefunds and princelings with no hat in the ring, right? We’re all on the same page on this, yes?
As you were then…..
If we didn’t have a gov full of fucking useless tossers this shit would haven’t even started
You, too, deserve to be able to stand for better wages and conditions.
Not part of a union yet? Join online: https://www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union
If anyone wants to know what the future holds if the government/toc’s get their way, just look over the water at America, train staff banned from striking, lack of maintenance, workforce decimated, no guaranteed sick time off, on standby most days – 4 derailments *this week alone!* One a catastrophic chemical spill…
I’m an RMT member at one of the few places not taking industrial action (for now).
Solidarity to everyone who is, keep fighting.
This sucks because I actually have plans for one of those days. Plans a few people will need to use the train for, and I’ve poked one of the organisers with the news.
However, I do have options for getting to this event. I can get the bus, although it’ll be slow and complicated (three buses, to be precise, in each direction). I can hope for _some_ service, at least to where I’d only need to catch one bus. Or I can just go for easy mode and bribe my brother to drive me there, with an offer of fuel and fast food from somewhere he likes in the area I want to go to.
The train is the most obvious way of getting there. It’s just not my only option.
(Now, if there’s a strike on a specific Friday in July, or the following Monday, then I’d definitely be scrambling… it looks like I’d need to get to the area the day before, because NatEx would get me to the coach station _much_ too late.)
Happily throwing other people who are worse off under the bus
Just never content what they have, are they?
Sorry if I am being dumb but if it not about money why do they ask for more money when it’s about conditions why not make promises to make conditions better rather then say her %% extra
> 18 and 30 March and be followed by a further walkout on 1 April.
> Network Rail members will take strike action over 16 and 17 March.
Selfishly was hoping one of the days fell on a Wednesday so I wouldn’t have to come in.
If you don’t want an East Palestine (Ohio) situation in Britain, start backing the unions.
Anyone know how chaotic the service is either side of a strike?
I am meant to be flying from LHR on the 18th, so was going to get the train down from Newcastle.
But will probably get the train on the 17th which is a non-strike day. Just not sure how mental the trains will be.
Good for them. For all our safety let’s hope they win this.