No Comments about the sriking tube workers?

ILW

Just wondered why not, unless I have missed them.

movilogo

May be because people here don't use London underground?

Nosht

Leeches.
My son was an hour late for work despite leaving an hour earlier this morning.


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Generali

I didn't know they were on strike.

Here it is:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/07/3005367.htm

Millions of commuters across London struggled to get to work as a 24-hour strike by workers on the underground rail system crippled much of the network, hurting the city's convalescent economy.


Passengers took to bikes, buses, walked, or made use of extra boat services on the River Thames in a bid to beat the stoppage, called in protest at 800 job cuts driven by austerity measures.

So I see. Boris's bikes are basically scab labour.

This is presumably one of a series of strikes designed by an adjunct of the main opposition party to prevent a democratically elected Government push through a mandate for reducing Government spending.

Does anyone except me feel a tiny bit uneasy about that?

Chris2685

I forgot they were, until I reached the M25 border... Was an hour and a half late to work, and I drive in!

Blacklight

Re-employ the 800 and sack everyone who works for the union.

FTBFun

All Londoners hate the RMT, except those who are members of course.

ILW

The union spokeman who did an interview on LBC last night was a classic of 70s style miltancy. At one point he accused the interviewer of "not being able to understand because he was middle class". Doubt if they will wheel him out again.

bendix

The irony of course is that the 800 jobs will be lost by natural means with no compulsory redundancies at all.

Crow and the RMT are rightly despised through London and, if I get any joy at all from these strikes, it's that they are entirely counterproductive; they serve only to make ordinary people resent the unions even more.

It's not even a democratic strike. Only 35% of union members voted for it.

pinkteapot

Sack the lot of them and give the jobs to people who would actually be grateful for them.

Unions should exist purely to prevent unsafe working conditions, people being paid less than minimum wage, etc. Most private sector, non-unionised people have had low pay increases in the last couple of years. Get over it.

I don't use the tube - I commute in on the mainline and walk to my office from the station. Streets were packed today with people walking; looking confused and blinking in the daylight they're not used to seeing. Most strange.

ILW

They are flexing their muscles so they can demand massive pay rises just before the Olympics and hold the whole country to ransom. The employers will back down, they always do.