Real-life MMD: Holiday nightmare - should we forgo £6,000 or pay £1,000 more?

lutzi1

If you don't seem to have the first idea as to what this dispute is actually about, based on what's posted here, let alone whether you think it's justified, go ahead and lose your money. If you're prepared to support industrial action regardless, without knowing the first thing about it, you ask for all you get.

1867jo

Maybe the strike will be over by the time you get there !!!

DKLS

is this 2013 or the 1970's? Solidarity with Rocky Mountain Train Workers :rotfl: how admirable :rotfl:

jagu

Is the real reason you don't want to cross the picket line that it is against your union principles, or are you just worried what the pickets will think of people who go on £12,000 holidays?

If the pickets think you are fat-cats and you should cancel or move your holiday at great expense for the sake of a token gesture, they don't deserve your support.

r_p_james

I'm not sure that this is actually a current dilemma. A quick Google search shows that the Rocky Mountain Railroad dispute ended in September 2012, although after over a year it sounds quite acrimonious - I can't post the link but the Vancouver Courier has the story.

If this is a current dilemma then I don't really see what the problem is now. The dispute is resolved, there may be some ongoing picketing but it looks to me as though you wouldn't be crossing any official picket lines.

If it's historical then the length of the dispute indicates that the travel agent should have informed the customer and it would seem there was an element of mis-selling involved.

SueC_2

Is that what Unions are meant to be about?

Someone, somewhere, anyone, anywhere in the world is protesting about something, purpose unclear; but because you are also in a Union, albeit a completely different Union, in a completely different ecomony, in a completely different country, you must also protest on principle, even if it is at great personal cost?

Wow, I had no idea.

Sooler

You must cancel, stand firm with your brothers … take the hit on the cost and donate what you get back to the Rocky Mountain Train Workers. Your time staying at home can be used for fund raising and raising awareness of the workers plight. Send food parcels etc.

JimmyTheWig

Macca83 wrote: »

Im not sure in what situation you'd end up crossing a picket line on holiday. I thought you only crossed a picket line if you opted out of strike action and decided to work.

jessiedebbie wrote: »

I am a union man but I fail to see how this is a problem. If I was entering a place of work and had to cross a picket line I would refuse but on holiday. Never

I can see the OP's point.
It's certainly not as extreme as crossing a picket line to go to work, but I do think that by crossing even as a customer you send the wrong message to those on strike.

So, for example, if shop workers were on strike and had set up a picket line outside their shop I wouldn't cross the picket line to do my shopping - I'd leave it until another day or go elsewhere.

Saetana

Oh please, this is not a dilemma - but it does remind me why I find trade unionists incredibly irritating and why I regret the one time I joined one. Its YOUR problem and not that of the travel agency, I assume they only informed you in the first place because of possible delays on that part of the trip - it is not down to them because you refuse to cross a picket line for an unknown company in another blooming country during a dispute you know nothing about. Either pay the extra or cancel, I honestly don't care either way.

MSE - these so-called moral dilemmas are getting ridiculous, if you haven't got a good one that people can relate to then give it a miss that week, they have been going from the ridiculous to the sublime lately

tindella

Martin - have you seen this? Your credibility is at stake here. You couldn't make this up - or could you??

If you want people to genuinely chip in and help, don't take us for a ride!