No Comments about the sriking tube workers?

StevieJ

pinkteapot wrote: »

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.

And there is me thinking the current govt don't believe in the minimum wage etc

Generali

Pete111 wrote: »

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.

And presumably your ticket includes a cost of paying a few union reps to persuade members to walk out.

ILW

StevieJ wrote: »

And there is me thinking the current govt don't believe in the minimum wage etc

None of the strikers are on minimum wage, what are you going on about?

ILW

Generali wrote: »

And presumably your ticket includes a cost of paying a few union reps to persuade members to walk out.

No, that comes out of teh subsidy from the taxpayer.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

So for 24 hours, Londoners have to deal with the same costs/inconvenience of transport that the rest of the country do every day.

I'm not seeing the problem here.

StevieJ

ILW wrote: »

None of the strikers are on minimum wage, what are you going on about?

It was in reply to this comment, so what are you going on about

Unions should exist purely to prevent unsafe working conditions, people being paid less than minimum wage,

chewmylegoff

the RMT's case is that existing ticket staff who now have no work to do because of the change in the ticketing system should be left sitting behind glass screens doing no work and being paid for doing no work, rather than reassigned to other duties within the same station. the justification for this is that without some halfwit sitting behind a glass screen who would never intervene in any sort of criminal activity in the first place, the stations will turn into lawless crime hotspots.

in reality this is just another ridiculous strike dressed up as being in response to concerns over passenger safety. no doubt the only way it is possible to allay the safety fears of the RMT is to pay all of its members more, so they can pay more to it in union subs, so bob crow and his fellow union cronies can have a bigger salary. pretty sure an arch socialist like crow shouldn't be happy to take a six figure salary.

what the RMT will especially enjoy about this strike is that the strike is so unreasonable that there is very little that LU can reasonably offer which would force the RMT to negotiate.

chewmylegoff

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

So for 24 hours, Londoners have to deal with the same costs/inconvenience of transport that the rest of the country do every day.

I'm not seeing the problem here.

so every morning your commute consists of having no way to get to work and having to walk or work from home?

you should get yourself a car or something.

ILW

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

So for 24 hours, Londoners have to deal with the same costs/inconvenience of transport that the rest of the country do every day.

I'm not seeing the problem here.

I think Aberdeen would grind to a halt if your one set of traffic lights packed up.

FTBFun

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

So for 24 hours, Londoners have to deal with the same costs/inconvenience of transport that the rest of the country do every day.

I'm not seeing the problem here.

London is the biggest city in the country by some distance. Nowhere else in the country has comparable issues with transport.