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LizOwen · 41-45, F
Making the drivers work extra weekends for less money, closing down ticket offices and making people unemployed.

SW-User
@LizOwen My heart bleeds for them...not. They have jobs and thousands don't. If there hard left union leaders would actually negotiate sensibly this could be sorted quickly. Same with RMT

SW-User
@Barny52 Yes do that...and bully the rest of the country into submission.
Barny52 · 56-60, M
@SW-User work extra hours for £0

SW-User
@Barny52 Negotiate then
Barny52 · 56-60, M
@SW-User don’t work it doesn’t cost or join a union and don’t get bullied into working for £0
Philth · 46-50, M
@SW-User you think that the unions didn't try negotiating before balloting for strike action? You don't know that Britain already has some of the most stringent anti Union laws in Europe?
Philth · 46-50, M
@MartinII I've often thought that forcing workers to do longer and longer hours on more and more unwieldy and fatiguing shift patterns, to the point that public safety is endangered, should be illegal, but yeah I guess that makes me one of the loony left in your eyes?
Go look up the report into the Croydon tram crash and tell me - and the relatives of those killed - its about consumer choice, or that unions shouldn't be allowed the ultimate form of protest.
Go look up the report into the Croydon tram crash and tell me - and the relatives of those killed - its about consumer choice, or that unions shouldn't be allowed the ultimate form of protest.
MartinII · 70-79, M
@Philth No, not at all. My point is that the public shouldn’t have to suffer the withdrawal of an essential service when no alternative is available. On safety and customer service issues, the railway industry is highly regulated and standards should be enforced on both employers and employees. Of course that is also an argument against privatisation!
On the loony left, I would only comment that they, or their leaders, are very far from loony. They no exactly what they are doing!
On the loony left, I would only comment that they, or their leaders, are very far from loony. They no exactly what they are doing!