regarding staff losing money you said " ultimately a few hundred pounds here or there is little in the grand scheme of things" you must be on a good wage to say that...
My earnings are irrelevant to the point I was making - you’ll notice my comment was also agreed with by another member of staff.
You’re no doubt blissfully unaware of the current situation but many members of current rail staff, including very modestly paid ones, feel the need to take action now to stave off long term erosion of their pay and Ts and Cs. Does the phrase “short term pain for long term gain” mean anything to you?
If you really did thirty years on the railway, did you never take part in industrial action yourself? Perhaps you were one of those who were happy to take the perks but looks down your nose at those fighting to defend them?
Yes i'm ex railstaff and the "beneficial Ts&Cs i'm now enjoying", are staff travel cards, which i recieved in lieu of monetary content in wage negotiations,
And a decent pension, and a job you said you did for decades, which has presumably set you up for retirement?
Staff fighting for their livelihoods, then re my comment above about "a few hundred pounds",
As I said, the staff I know fully agree with the sentiment I expressed. Trust me you’re in no position to know better than they.
What did you do on the railway yourself, out of interest? Maybe some of your current colleagues still working in the industry can give you some direct feedback on your views on their approach to taking industrial action.
your comments about passengers, ie i don't really care whether you continue to use the railway or not... you'd be a real laugh behind the counter, even a role model.
"Strewth" was my exasperation at the comments you've been making as per above...
Thanks very much for your feedback on my customer service skills. Duly noted. I must ask, has it escaped your notice that this is an anonymous Internet discussion forum? I’m on here to discuss railways in general and, on this particular thread, my views on railway industrial disputes. If you want “customer service” I suggest you go to Twitter.
Doesn't matter what you think.....I work in the industry and you don't. Which puts me in a much better position to actually understand what's going on. Clearly some of the internal stuff isn't available to you. Which of course it would be should you actually manage to gain employment in the industry. Give it a go.....
This attitude of “people who expect customers to come back shouldn’t work in the industry” of course comes from people who have an axe to grind and *wish* passengers wouldn’t return! It is a simple reality that railway passengers have come back after every strike ever. It’s intriguing how much that simple statement of reality irritates some on here.
They’re also continuing to come back after Covid. I’ve just passed through a thronging London Bridge. I guess I must have imagined the hoards of people piling on and off full and standing thameslink trains. After all we know from this forum the railway is busily carting around fresh air and needs to close.

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I’m afraid it wasn’t. It was entirely down to the relevant local ASLEF reps for each TOC, most of whom were not as accommodating about training during Covid as yours were when presented with the same proposals.
Yes I agree. It’s such a pity as many trainees had left jobs & left in limbo on furlough when there really was no need. It was all done very safely & totally at the trainee/DIs discretion.
I’m the *last* person to defend OTT Covid nonsense. However it strikes me as completely wrong to single out the railway unions for behaving in the same way as every single other union, and indeed merely acting in accordance with government advice. The railway unions were at least happy to keep the service running unlike (say) the teaching unions who seemed to spend most of the pandemic calling for schools closures.