No Comments about the sriking tube workers?

lewisa

If the employer has been treating them like employees used to get treated in Victorian times, then I back the strike.

Of course that isnt the case so they should all get fired and given a lifetime ban from using the service.

bendix wrote: »

Only 35% of union members voted for it.

Looks like a good turn out by modern day militant asswipe standards.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

I fully support unions and the right to strike over blatant shafting by employers. I do not support striking over anything and everything; this turns public sentiment against unions and undermines all they've achieved over the years. The RMT do not seem to realise this, or do not care.

With more and more people able to work from home and on flexible hours, hopefully transport strikes will become less of an issue in future. I walked part way to work and was an hour late, but it's not really the end of the world.

Wookster

Not that I'm a big fan of Thatcher, but we do really need a dose of Thatcherite union smashing where the RMT is concerned.

They strike so much more regularly than any other union. I'd like to know what what it is about London Transport that is so much worse than any other unionised business that causes those hard done by union staff to strike quite so much.

ultrawomble

There aren't many jobs in London (or anywhere else) that have on average 50 people/year committing suicide in front of you.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

ultrawomble wrote: »

There aren't many jobs in London (or anywhere else) that have on average 50 people/year committing suicide in front of you.

The strike isn't about Tube drivers' pay and conditions though (and they are very well paid for the suicide hazard). There are no forced job losses at all- it's a redeployment of staff from moribund ticket offices to other frontline station duties.

As long as all stations are visibly manned I don't care if staff are in or out of the vending offices.

ILW

ultrawomble wrote: »

There aren't many jobs in London (or anywhere else) that have on average 50 people/year committing suicide in front of you.

This is about ticket office staff being redeployed.
If you don't like it, resign, there are many that would take the job.

chucknorris

pinkteapot wrote: »

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

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It's no use just sacking them they might somehow get their jobs back, burning them is much safer. Once 10% of them have been burned alive I think the remaining 90% will tow the line.

FTBFun

ultrawomble wrote: »

There aren't many jobs in London (or anywhere else) that have on average 50 people/year committing suicide in front of you.

You haven't been to the comedy store on a weeknight then.

Pete111

I read today in the Times that the RMT ballot their members for strike action an average of once every 3 weeks. If true this surely shows that the union is utterly and immediately confrontational in its dealings with Mgt.....as well as the relative restraint of its members!!

Not a fan of this strike - makes little difference to me (I can walk/run to and from the mainline station if I need to) but the rationale seems pretty weak.

StevieJ

Generali wrote: »

I didn't know they were on strike.

Here it is:

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



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?

Do you mean about your leading comment