Right, good idea. Then when you've taken away all their rights you can appoint people who will work long hours with no pay! This is typical of the Mail to highlight what you're going to miss out on because people are standing up for themselves, not the quite legitimate reasons underlying the dispute, and you've fallen for it hook, line and sinker.
This will be the third Boxing Day in a row they have gone on strike, methinks they just do not want to sit on thier arses all day pushing buttons with a belly full of pudding.
Should be alright, probably just an excuse for our favourite newspaper to write as many strike related stories as possible, they do enjoy that subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYVJSOFZxDE - London Underground on strike song Warning ***VERY*** strong lyrics. Don't go there and claim you weren't warned. You will laugh, though... Vin
Reminds me of the teachers strike - I still can't get my head round why they couldn't strike during the 13 weeks of holidays they get........
Well said my backside ! London Underground Tube drivers are relativley well paid workers - they only go on strike because they know that their action will hold the travelling public to ransom and hence have a good chance of the company management giving in to them. There are plenty of other workers with real issues if you want a cause to champion.
In the past tubes and buses have not run but games have still gone ahead. Not sure why it should be different this year!
Wouldn't be a very good negotiating tactic would it? If the strike has no adverse affects why would you acquiesce to their demands? Indeed there are, many unquestionably more deserving of our sympathy, but just because there are people who are treated even worse doesn't mean this isn't a just cause.
It wont be long now before you get your wish. It has been done in the past and some people are awaiting sentencing for it now. It is called slavery and it is every capitalist's wet dream. It is what made this country rich and created the Tories. It is not too big a leap when you consider what a pittance the statutory minimum wage is.
i looked on the tfl website this morning and i believe the press have made it look worse than it actually is. There will still be tubes operating just on a reduced sunday service and the district line is still on which means you can get to putney bridge. Hope this clears a few nerves up
Just cause !! LU Tube drivers agreed a 20% rise over 4 years only 12 months ago, at which time the average tube driver was on £46,000 p.a., rising to over £50,000 p.a. - for a 35 hour week ! I doubt that many of the public wishing to travel in London on Boxing Day will be very sympathetic over this 'just cause '. Dont be so bloody wet !
Well, good for them, their strikes are obviously highly effective! If you are jealous of that success maybe you should seek work as a tube driver, or perhaps you should unionise and push for more rights/money for yourself and your co-workers rather than attempting to push down other people's. For every well-paid and well-publicised tube driver there is a very poorly-paid cleaner or blue-collar worker, who mysteriously you never hear about, whose livelihoods are materially damaged by the attitude you and others have towards their right to strike or even unionise at all.
Good for them ? I dont think so - these sods have got unaffordable salaries due to striking and not through good work ethic and bettering themselves - all because it is easy to hold the public to ransom. I am jealous of no man - for your info i am unionised, have been all my life but never striked. Like many others I got on in life through hard work and professional education over donkeys years. Your pathetic socialist ideals dont work - the poorly paid cleaners that you mention are not members of ASLEF, and they have no means of holding the public to ransom. Buts thats fine, if you are a cleaner you cant expect large salaries - when i was cleaning in a Wimpey Bar years ago to help pay my way through college i wasnt bleating, i was did something about it by getting up the ladder and better life. If these tube drivers strike and prevent the likes of Saints supporters attending the Fulham game on Boxing Day then they should be sacked on the spot - there are plenty of newly qualified graduates that post on here alone who would love a £50,000 p.a. job and would probably make damn fine tube drivers given a little training.
