From the speeches at the RMT AGM is sounds like we can expect a complete railway system shutdown due to industrial action in the next year or two. If the government goes ahead with anti-Trades Union legislation as expected that is.
Well, that being the case, it will all go to help with the current Government plans to defer works on much of the railway network. Not often you see a Trades Union going out of its way to aid and assist Conservative Party policies...
This seems an opportune time to quote the Basil Fawlty anti-union rant from "The Kipper and the Corpse" episode...
"Another car strike. Marvellous isn't it? The taxpayers pay them millions every year so they can go on strike. It's called Socialism. If they don't like making cars, why don't they get themselves another bloody job - designing cathedrals or composing violin concertos. That's it!! The British Leyland Concerto - in four movements, all of them slow with a four-hour tea break in-between".
Ever recall the stirring Socialist chant.."The people, united, will never be defeated". That did not seem to help the poor sods who were lifted out of the cities and towns and forcibly made to work in agricultural projects by the Pol Pot regime. There are always far worse regimes than the one you feel are oppressing you....ISIL being a very recent addition to that particular fold of nightmare state rulers.