Tube strikes

:lol:Someone at work pulled this up on Friday. Brilliant.
I'm having to work from home these two days. Any chance they can stay out until tomorrow night?:whistle:
 
I don't want to sound like a right-wing lunatic but, if I am unhappy with my working conditions, I have two options:

1) Seek alternative employment
2) Learn to live with it

Why should the selfish f*ckers on the tube have

3) Disrupt the lives of millions of innocent people who already pay well over the odds for a shoddy service

as an option?
 
Look at the starting salaries for Tube drivers and Station assistants.

They rode the economy when things were supposedly going well; now it's going the other way, Bob Crow whinges about how why should they suffer because of the bankers and politicians.

Is there something wrong with him?

I'd love a job where I could be guaranteed no redundancy.
 
I'm with you Relkeel,
My neighbours son is a tube worker & according to her the reason it all started was that they want a contract that runs out just before the olympics, Why?

So that they can hold their boss's to ransom with threats of strike action when the olympics are on,

Scum the lot of them & I wouldn't spit on them if they were on fire!

End of rant!
 
The disput is about a train driver who was sacked not about pay he is not a member of ASLEF. he is a member of the OTHER lot and he opened the wrong doors of a train if you have ever travelled on the tube you know that you could very easerly fall from the train and or die,

Now I don't know wheather he or she was offered retraining and as a union member I think workers rights need to looked after but I also think that the travling public should be able to expect to ride a train in safty,
 
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Hamm said:
For what exactly, opening the right door?!
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No they open the wrong doors on wrong side of the tran as i'm led to beleave.:p

Do think that all the hours it took to train them up should be waisted or should they be down graded or was sacking correct knowing the fall out that would follow.
 
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If you were driving a car it would at least br DWDC. so I don't think they should have had a strrike over this matter but it also shows just hoe bad relations are that ASLEF don't surport the strike and are said to br the most milatant of the two Uuions and that Management are also poor it's not a job I would fancey doing the other thing you must remeber is how do the staff get home when a strike is called.
 
I thought it was to due to the unions wanting a 5% pay rise? Or turning down a 5% pay rise? (I wish) And a guarantee of no redundancies? ( I wish again)
 
Hamm said:
Look at the starting salaries for Tube drivers and Station assistants.

They rode the economy when things were supposedly going well; now it's going the other way, Bob Crow whinges about how why should they suffer because of the bankers and politicians.

Is there something wrong with him?

I'd love a job where I could be guaranteed no redundancy.
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That's the joys of self centred socialist unions Hamm. Whilst they do serve a great purpose and have in the past stood up to great injustices within the workplace these days they seem all too keen on holding the country to ransom.
 
They turned down 5%? Our pay rises have been 1.2% for the last 4 years, despite the increasing workload due to (increasingly irrational and unobtainable) Government targets, with no options to accept or decline.

I've been working a 10-hour day since last November just to get the clinics sorted, but I'm only paid for 7 1/2 hours and there is no paid overtime. The choice is to either do extra time and get the work done, or work the regular hours, let it all pile up and the patients and other staff suffer.

Wonder what would happen if NHS admin staff were to down tools?

Of course, I suppose we have to take into account when the tube workers' last pay rise was. If it was a few years ago, then there is no comparison, but if it is annual - bloody hell!
 
Are we talking about todays strike, or other strikes the only reason it looks that way is from hard won battles in the past, if you like you to can get a job on the tube dealing with all the travling public have fun.
 
I believe the London public would be right behind a mass dismissal of those determined to follow Crow. It surely wouldnt take too much to train up some replacement drivers and with salaris starting at 40k, would be no shortage of applicants

There would be no shortage at starting salaries of 25k i reckon.

i doubt that Boris has the guts for such a fight but its the best solution. Frankly, faced with that, the drivers would soon knowwhich way to turn.

Are they going to get 50k in the open market?

are they fck
 
clivex said:
I believe the London public would be right behind a mass dismissal of those determined to follow Crow. It surely wouldnt take too much to train up some replacement drivers and with salaris starting at 40k, would be no shortage of applicants

There would be no shortage at starting salaries of 25k i reckon.

i doubt that Boris has the guts for such a fight but its the best solution. Frankly, faced with that, the drivers would soon knowwhich way to turn.

Are they going to get 50k in the open market?

are they fck
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You tell 'em Clive.

When I started working for Ladbrokes, we had a mass exodus of managers to LUL because they could literally get double the salary for about 70% of the time. This meant me being forced to work an 80 hour week, often single manning in busy shops for less than a grand a month. And now the f*ckers are whining about it? Play the song again!
 
My understanding is that they didn't turn down a 5% rise. They asked for it and, naturally, it was rejected. They settled for a very much smaller figure with the promise of no redundancies and the unions agreed to recommend it to their members. The employers' lawyers then vetoed the deal.

I'm all for workers fighting for maximum pay and conditions but it has to be done the right way. Employers who ride roughshod over their employees' statutory, human and moral rights deserve everything they get.

I'll never forgive London Transport, as it was then called, for shafting me for being honest. I wrote to Two Jags about it and he said he sympathised but could do nothing.
 
Relkeel said:
I don't want to sound like a right-wing lunatic but, if I am unhappy with my working conditions, I have two options:

1) Seek alternative employment
2) Learn to live with it

Why should the selfish f*ckers on the tube have

3) Disrupt the lives of millions of innocent people who already pay well over the odds for a shoddy service

as an option?
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Absolutely. **** 'em - as far as I'm concerned the greedy arseholes should get the sack.

I've just about had it with greedy tossers who think they can manipulate their employers all the way. I disagree with the strike culture in a massive way and think it should becom illegal - it's just an easy way out for greedy, lazy bastards. For Christ's sake there are thousands of people losing their jobs at the moment but these greedy bastards just want above average payrises for sitting on their arses. Sack 'em all and deny them the dole for being so bloody arrogant.
 
Oh and by the way the Amateur Transplants have a CD out which is hysterical - I bought it a few years ago. Northern Birds (to the tune of More Than Words) is hilariously brilliant.
 
When I started working for Ladbrokes, we had a mass exodus of managers to LUL because they could literally get double the salary for about 70% of the time. This meant me being forced to work an 80 hour week, often single manning in busy shops for less than a grand a month.
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Should have joined a Union :D
 
"The Black & White Menstrual Tour" - fantastic links, Shadz - brilliant! I love the alternative to 'Wimoweh'...
 
Relkeel said:
Evidently, Aldaniti and Shadow Leader have no such concerns!
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Nah, I don't care - sack 'em all. That they should strike as they want a higher payrise than they're getting is disgusting and downright distasteful in this economic climate. They should count themselves lucky to have a job, nevermind that they're getting a payrise as well!
 
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