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Tube Drivers are at it again.
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No its quintuple pay, a lieu day and Christmas Dinner at the Savoy!0
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Perhaps someone who objects to these tactics should organise a strike by tube passengers on boxing day.Tube drivers acting in self interest then. Plus ca change.
How is this different from MPs voting for a weeks holiday this winter to compensate for holiday lost during the summer riots ?
If passengers weren't going to be using the tube then management would not be pressured into paying extortionate amounts to the drivers.
I'm old enough to remember when the whole country didn't feel the need to go shopping on boxing day (or Sundays for that matter) and yet the world kept turning. The boxing day sales were called the January sales and everyone still managed to spend their money on rubbish that they never really wanted/needed until somebody put a reduced sticker on it."When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson0 -
Hmmm, Boxing Day sales again...
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I can't agree with their tactics but I have to accept that the tube drivers have leverage. That's all it is really. They are not the only group in society which can use essentially a 'closed shop' to drive up their income.
It seems no different to investment bankers threatening to take their labour to foreign shores, when the bonus issue was under threat. It's just using the leverage ability you have to maintain self interest.0 -
Do we have to have this exact thread every two months?
No-one is forcing you to read it."There's no such thing as Macra. Macra do not exist."
"I could play all day in my Green Cathedral".
"The Centuries that divide me shall be undone."
"A dream? Really, Doctor. You'll be consulting the entrails of a sheep next. "0 -
its all down south so who gives a stuff. sooner or later we'll be screwed and why shouldn't tube drivers. council workers, public sector all earn a lot and we'll all just pay more tax... we love to spend money on stupid things - london 2012, afgan war, libya etc... (rant mode off)0
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Do we have to have this exact thread every two months?
depends on how often these overpaid underworked cretins decide they want to strike.
I would be happy to have this thread every day.
These people should be on £25k MAX. easy manual labour that at least 90% of the population could do, probably some monkeys and definitely robots/automatic trains.
It is a disgrace and makes my skin crawl that these people get paid 3 or 4 times what a nurse or ambulance driver (who is also a paramedic) get paid. It is beyond ridiculous.
The Govt need to make Bob have a high profile accident. They did with David Kelly (allegedly). I hear Bob is feeling a little suicidal.0 -
The Govt need to make Bob have a high profile accident
You appear to be getting your hate figures mixed up.
Bob Crowe is General Secretary of the R.M.T.
You should be directing your bigoted bile at Keith Norman who holds that position for A.S.L.E.F.
http://www.aslef.org.uk/information/131545/tube_drivers_to_vote_on_boxing_day_strike/'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'0
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