Says it all that they didn't want to put it out to a general vote for a true balance. Afterall what someone might say in the heated bullpit of a branch meeting might not be what they actually think. They go with the flow in public to avoid being bullied.
Know a lot of RMT members, do you? A laughable take that is a million miles from the reality I see on a daily basis.
That's clearly the employers' tactic, keep putting forward the same rubbish offer until the employees get ground down and run out of steam. A negotiating tactic which can only be used where the taxpayer is being forced into bankrolling the losses, which the government freely admits already exceeds the cost of actually settling.
I find it fascinating how people are blaming the unions when it is abundantly clear that the employers are simply not acting in good faith and have no intention of doing so because someone else is footing the bill. And our government, a Margaret Thatcher pub tribute act, are happy to spaff away taxpayer money to make an ideological point.
The RMT should change their name to Serco or Michelle Mone, they'd get everything they want then!
Well put. Of course if the RMT did put it to the vote they’d be pilloried on here if they didn’t recommend acceptance. They were even pilloried for calling strikes off a few weeks ago!
It’s indeed notable how the (faux) concern expressed over costs of the railway to the public purse doesn’t seem to extend to the (equally public) funds being used to bankroll this dispute by the government.
Based on the way I’ve heard this offer being discussed I’m not remotely surprised it has been rejected. I’ll leave it there because these threads always go the same predictable way…