Apart from the passengers which the RMT's action is denying a train service, the businesses the RMT's action is sending to the wall, and the workers who risk losing their jobs, the strikes are achieving absolutely nothing. It's truly bizarre how the RMT seem to wear the "38 days" like a badge of honour when really it's nothing other than an abject failure for all parties involved.
The idea that calling even more strike days, or striking more often, would be a "mind blowing escalation" is laughable. All it will mean is you inconvenience passengers even more than you're doing already, do even more damage to the regional economy, lose even more money, while still continuing to achieve absolutely nothing.
At what point does the penny drop that the RMT are a busted flush who have massively overplayed their hand and are striking their way into irrelevance?
The RMT are not going to see sense, at least not under their current leadership. Yes their actions should be nothing to be proud of, but they are extremists, and don't think like you or I.
...the vast majority do not want doo...
Absolute nonsense! If you ask people who actually have experience of the electric trains in the Glasgow area, which is clearly what the Northern network
should be like, I am sure they will be happy. Customer service on those trains is infinitely better - on average - than on Northern trains. The staff are happier, they are friendlier, they are much more visible, on average. There'll always be exceptions but they are few and far between in my experience.
The only reason people will agree with you is if you paint a biased picture. I've explained to some people who were mislead by RMT supporters what DOO actually means and that there are many DOO trains with highly visible staff, and they realise then that the RMT are not being truthful.
The RMT can continue on their destructive path if they wish but the truth needs to be revealed to passengers. The more they try to twist things, and falsely claim that trains in Glasgow are unsafe, the more I will expose their lies, and I hope others do too.