Sorry for the error. Bound to be next in the queue & eager to join the bandwagon.
Have you not got a daily mail to read and get irrationally angry with?
Sorry for the error. Bound to be next in the queue & eager to join the bandwagon.
Aren't there almost more train companies with strike action currently happening or threatened than not?
Southern, Northern, Merseyrail, Greater Anglia, SWR, XC, VTWC, ATW. Have I missed any?
This is simplty not acceptable. I can't think of another industry currently with so many days lost to strike action & causing so much misery to the public.
Wow. So only Southeastern, Scotrail, GWR, TPE, EMT and VTEC are not striking. Plus the open access operators (GC and Hull Trains). So yes, it's more striking than not.Aren't there almost more train companies with strike action currently happening or threatened than not?
Southern, Northern, Merseyrail, Greater Anglia, SWR, XC, VTWC, ATW. Have I missed any?
This is simplty not acceptable. I can't think of another industry currently with so many days lost to strike action & causing so much misery to the public.
Sorry for the error. Bound to be next in the queue & eager to join the bandwagon.
I'm just a VTWC passenger who relies on their service to get where I need to be and have done for years. I haven't had an above inflation pay rise since 2005 and I suspect a large number of people in this country are the same. I am getting really annoyed with the RMT which seems hell-bent on disrupting the lives of the very people that pay the wages of its members then cries crocodile tears about the mayhem it causes.
I appreciate my remarks might not go down well with some RMT members on this forum but many of us are getting sick and tired of their actions
I'm just a VTWC passenger who relies on their service to get where I need to be and have done for years. I haven't had an above inflation pay rise since 2005 and I suspect a large number of people in this country are the same.
It's only a matter of time before an RMT member is injured/assaulted by a disgruntled passenger fed up with political strikes badly affecting or terminating his employment.
(Precious little criticism of how the situation has arisen, which is very telling)
(Precious little criticism of how the situation has arisen, which is very telling)
Oooh it's like a mothers' meeting in here...
It would seem that an employer has made a deal during pay negtioations, and then subsequently decided that actually they'd rather not honour it. They have then approached one of the unions representing some of their staff and agreed to an alternative in order to rectify the situation, before approaching another union representing a far greater number of staff and, basically, telling them to get lost. Protesting at that is unreasonable why exactly?
This looks very much like the popular game of "keep it sweet with Aslef but try your luck with the RMT". The management are chancing their arm, knowing very well what the outcome will be. They can deal with all of their staff in an equally fair and professional manner, or they can play silly buggers and have the really rather obvious consequences.
I see nothing to say that the reduced one hour was ever going to apply to anyone except drivers. Therefore why would management speak to anyone except ASLEF?Oooh it's like a mothers' meeting in here...
It would seem that an employer has made a deal during pay negtioations, and then subsequently decided that actually they'd rather not honour it. They have then approached one of the unions representing some of their staff and agreed to an alternative in order to rectify the situation, before approaching another union representing a far greater number of staff and, basically, telling them to get lost. Protesting at that is unreasonable why exactly?
This looks very much like the popular game of "keep it sweet with Aslef but try your luck with the RMT". The management are chancing their arm, knowing very well what the outcome will be. They can deal with all of their staff in an equally fair and professional manner, or they can play silly buggers and have the really rather obvious consequences.
I see nothing to say that the reduced one hour was ever going to apply to anyone except drivers. Therefore why would management speak to anyone except ASLEF?
It's only a matter of time before an RMT member is injured/assaulted by a disgruntled passenger fed up with political strikes badly affecting or terminating his employment.
Interesting. So there was a general commitment to reduce hours for staff and it was all going to be left down to a working group to sort out? I feel that there is something more to this story.That will be because that hours reduction wasn't done just for us drivers
You are wasting your time: Greedy evil guards (and their bolshie/commie/satanic union) paid a fortune holding decent , honest, hard working, underpaid, stirvers not skivers to ransom is a much more easily digestible narrative.
You forgot jobsworth.
The RMT NEC is out of control because Strong Man Crow is no longer around to keep it under control. He was to the RMT as Tito was to Jugoslavia.When the RMT have created the widespread perception that they’re permanently spoiling for a fight and looking to ballot for strike action and cause disruption at the drop of a hat, is it any wonder that when their members have a genuine grievance that it’s dismissed as typical RMT behaviour?
The fever pitch, provocative rhetoric that accompanies every press release doesn’t help much either because it presents every issue as an outrage and disgrace and every franchise as a basket case. As a passenger, Aslef’s approach seems much more pragmatic, balanced and professional in comparison.
There are many workers, NHS for example, that haven't had a pay rise that matches that of the railway for the past few years. So it's fair to say the railway have been lucky.
The problem is greed and there's no getting away from that.
I'm all for workers rights and all that but there are two sides to each coin, and I always struggle to understand the nitty gritty reasons why some workers decide to strike.
There are many workers, NHS for example, that haven't had a pay rise that matches that of the railway for the past few years. So it's fair to say the railway have been lucky.
But there is always another choice. Find a new job. There seems to be a growing problem with workers thinking they are entitled to a pay rise... like it's their right. Yet the job hasn't hugely changed and many don't think of it from the company point of view. If the job hasn't changed, why should you get paid more? If you want more money, find a new job... better paid version of what you already do. But that's right, West Coast workers are already among the highest paid for their roles, compared with other TOCs.