Good News- Signallers Strike is cancelled!

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A post from yesterday from the OP;


" At the moment I'm in a finance job for a rail company and have a decent chance of a graduate job in the industry on 26k. "

Speaks volumes.:rotfl:

helend

robt wrote: »

Maybe you should not use a car or a bus or a plane either. Or a bike. Or leave your house. But then again most accidents happen in the home.

How will you get through the day? By posting melodramatic posts on message boards?

You must be either a union rep or are easily influenced by the media.

As for Potters Bar, the points were inspected TWICE in the ten days leading up to the accident. That is shoddy workmanship, not a lack of inspections. And the private company who completed the inspections admitted this and paid out.

Didn't mean to sound melodramatic - will remove the comment. However, no I wouldn't travel on a plane that hadn't been maintained properly.

As for Potters Bar, becuase Raitrack didn't have the staff they had to use contracted staff who weren't properly trained on those particular points (HSE findings)

Some of the HSEs main recommendations were "accelerated progress in this area [safety management]and urges the industry and those who influence it to work in partnership to accelerate progress in developing the safety culture."

also: "the Board recommends that Network Rail builds on its developing approach to risk in these areas, recognising that safety goes hand in hand with good business, particularly on the railways where attention to inherently safe design and preventative maintenance can lead to improved reliability, less down time on the network and improved safety."

But now they want to reduce maintenance? Loke maintenance alone is being reduced from once every 3mths to once a year.

less maintenance = faults = delays = fines paid to train companies per minute per delay = less money in budget...

We've already seen that running the railway on the cheap doesn't work, so why are they trying it again?

I can understand the need to costcut but surely they should be looking at other areas first eg. not paying 5* hotels for meetings instead of the conference rooms they own up and down the country; not paying over £400k in bonuses to the head man each yr (nearly doubling his salary) this would save 20 maintenance posts straight away, not to mention the bonuses to the rest of the management team

I'm not a union rep, I have never worked for NR, I don't read newspapers, I do try to look into issues that interest me properly before forming an opinion.

I honestly hope the issues can be resolved without strike action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L3xafXev3M

Ms-Pacman

I do work for network rail maintenance and having read comments from other staff on a work discussion board I do understand what the concerns are. Saying that I don't agree with striking. I'm not a member of RMT but am of TSSA who seem to have a calmer approach in dealing with the staff concerns.

I think that what ever happens the strike will eventually go ahead as there are a lot of very unhappy signallers right now and thats not even mentioning maintenance side.

jd82

Why won't be people learn that they are just eroding their own jobs? Whats to stop Network Rail making all the signallers reply for their own jobs?

roscolabri

jd82 wrote: »

Why won't be people learn that they are just eroding their own jobs? Whats to stop Network Rail making all the signallers reply for their own jobs?

How exactly are the eroding their own jobs?

What's the point of signing a T&C contract when you first start work if the company you work for will change it at a later date with a click of the thumb?

Another thing that seems to have gone amiss in the news reports is that it's not just about the safety of the trains, it's also about the safety of the people that work out on the track. The basic opinion of the average public member to me seems to imply that they don't care about this. As long as they can get to work they don't give a damn. I suppose it reflects the somewhat selfish attitude of todays society.