TfL strike today - sympathy for fellow sufferers

Keith

More strikes tomorrow

geordieracer

Can i ask why people are supporting these strikes?

And isnt it on the 2nd when the next one is planned for?

Rossy.

geordieracer wrote: »

Can i ask why people are supporting these strikes?

And isnt it on the 2nd when the next one is planned for?

Because sometimes employers just take the !!!!

If you do nothing you get walked all over. Simple

geordieracer

Rossy. wrote: »

Because sometimes employers just take the !!!!

If you do nothing you get walked all over. Simple

Thats sound reasoning that is. In fact that is the clearest reason yet i have ever heard for supporting the strikes.

Award yourself a point

Rossy.

geordieracer wrote: »

Thats sound reasoning that is. In fact that is the clearest reason yet i have ever heard for supporting the strikes.

Award yourself a point

Why else would someone strike? Because they don't like the uniform??

Unless you've experienced it first hand, it's a tough thing to go through, No only is there guilt but frustration too. Rota changes, Pay issues. No increases, longer hours etc take it's toll on a person yet the company's sit back and don't care.

Fighting back is the only way a human being knows how to overcome something. At least by striking you make the company aware of the issues and try to make it amicable. If the union and company agreed before a strike happened then it wouldn't go as far as striking.

Sadly though a company will refuse, 1,2,3 strikes will happen before your back in the position you asked first of all.

I agree unions don't help enough to avoid strikes but nor do companies. Finding a balance is not always the easiest but it can, and usually always is resolved with communication and willingness

geordieracer

I wasnt asking why they were striking(but now i will) i was asking why you were supporting them. Im well aware that companies can and do in some cases treat all staff like !!!! but the same can be said for the unions too by holding the underground to ransom as it seems to do every year for the last god knows how long over very very minor issues.

Now do you know why they are striking?

Rossy.

geordieracer wrote: »

I wasnt asking why they were striking(but now i will) i was asking why you were supporting them. Im well aware that companies can and do in some cases treat all staff like !!!! but the same can be said for the unions too by holding the underground to ransom as it seems to do every year for the last god knows how long over very very minor issues.

Now do you know why they are striking?

Apologies i have have mis-read your post.

Here you go. Not much info but it's to do with redundancies etc

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/media/newscentre/16933.aspx

geordieracer

Yes they are letting some people go but not as many as the RMT would like you to think. The RMT are claiming over 800 people will lose their jobs as they want to close lots of ticket offices - well the hours they are open anyway. In actual fact the staff will still be there but just doing platform and assisting with the ticket machines and wont be losing their jobs at all.

In fact given that these changes are already in place at lots of ticket offices the RMTs campaign is not telling you this only that stations will be unstaffed which is not true. There will always be some one on the station as there is now. At some stations staff are sat there in ticket offices and selling as little as 10 tickets per hour which is not cost effective at all. And now that most people who live and work in London now use oyster and can top up at their corner shop or similar there is going to be less and less demand for ticket offices to be open all day long as they just dont take in the revenue any more.

diable

I'll worry about the tube strikes once I have a job and have to start using them again, ahhh the bliss of doing nothing......

Keith

geordieracer wrote: »

And isnt it on the 2nd when the next one is planned for?

From 7pm on the 1st