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RMT drivers strike for Weed game


hntreagle Flag Croydon 20 Dec 17 7.01pm

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This is just brilliant.

 
Hubbo Flag Near a team called Palace 20 Dec 17 7.22pm

And to think weekend engineering works was one of the reasons the Weed insisted in a Monday night game!

 
nickgusset Flag Shizzlehurst 20 Dec 17 7.40pm

Southern need to sort their s*** out then.

 
cryrst Flag The garden of England 20 Dec 17 8.03pm

Originally posted by nickgusset

Southern need to sort their s*** out then.

Good old unions eh
Originally they did a great job protecting employees as bosses took the piss and worked unsafely.
Nowadays they call out workers over non urgent or non dangerous situations.
Mainly dough and keeping themselves in a job!!!
Why not just ban overtime working unilaterally.
That would have an effect in the bosses pocket as agency staff are dearer.
Why punish normal people going about they're business.
Disgraceful

 
nickgusset Flag Shizzlehurst 20 Dec 17 8.17pm

Originally posted by cryrst

Good old unions eh
Originally they did a great job protecting employees as bosses took the piss and worked unsafely.
Nowadays they call out workers over non urgent or non dangerous situations.
Mainly dough and keeping themselves in a job!!!
Why not just ban overtime working unilaterally.
That would have an effect in the bosses pocket as agency staff are dearer.
Why punish normal people going about they're business.
Disgraceful

I know, Southern have acted despicably throughout the dispute. They don't give a s*** about passengers anyway, the contract gets paid regardless of whether trains run.

Could have picked a better day though.

 
mayler/rh13eagle Flag horsham 20 Dec 17 10.03pm

Rmt is a guards union as most drivers tend to be in Aslef.
This will make very little difference to those travelling to the game as they will still run at least a weekend service as they tend to get management out working trains to lessen the impact of the industrial action. Whilst it may be disrupted there should still be fairly regulated services running!

 
Pierre Flag Purley 20 Dec 17 10.08pm

Originally posted by Hubbo

And to think weekend engineering works was one of the reasons the Weed insisted in a Monday night game!

Not sure it was the weed or Sussex Police force used the engineering works as an excuse however the engineering works only reduced the number of trains an hour by one from 6 to 5!

 
Epsom Eagle Flag 10 miles from Selhurst 20 Dec 17 10.27pm

Originally posted by cryrst

Good old unions eh
Originally they did a great job protecting employees as bosses took the piss and worked unsafely.
Nowadays they call out workers over non urgent or non dangerous situations.
Mainly dough and keeping themselves in a job!!!
Why not just ban overtime working unilaterally.
That would have an effect in the bosses pocket as agency staff are dearer.
Why punish normal people going about they're business.
Disgraceful


If you ban overtime there would be even fewer trains running as Southern need their drivers to work their rest days.
You can't use agency staff to drive trains, each driver needs to be trained in all aspects of the railway rules & regulations, traction and route knowledge (this can take 12-18 months).
Trains will still run as it's only RMT striking & not Aslef.


 
kenbarr Flag Jackson Heights, Queens, New York ... 20 Dec 17 10.28pm

Several solutions come to mind.

1. Palace away travel lay on more coaches for supporters.

2. Beam the game back to Selhurst Park.

3. Move the game back to Sunday lunchtime with BT retaining the rights due to "extraordinary circumstances."

 

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Hubbo Flag Near a team called Palace 21 Dec 17 12.37am

Originally posted by Pierre

Not sure it was the weed or Sussex Police force used the engineering works as an excuse however the engineering works only reduced the number of trains an hour by one from 6 to 5!

I thought I read somewhere it was the club but in any case, CPFC offered to lay on coaches for a lunchtime game. BHA and the Sussex Police just continue to show they are either out of their depth in planning these fixtures, or of course it could be a Barber conspiracy against us!

 
Hubbo Flag Near a team called Palace 21 Dec 17 12.40am

Originally posted by kenbarr

Several solutions come to mind.

1. Palace away travel lay on more coaches for supporters.

2. Beam the game back to Selhurst Park.

3. Move the game back to Sunday lunchtime with BT retaining the rights due to "extraordinary circumstances."

I like Option 3 as it would also show the RMT up further on a national level for the grief they have caused for so many over such a long period now

 
Michaelawt85 Flag Bexley 21 Dec 17 1.13am

Originally posted by Hubbo

I thought I read somewhere it was the club but in any case, CPFC offered to lay on coaches for a lunchtime game. BHA and the Sussex Police just continue to show they are either out of their depth in planning these fixtures, or of course it could be a Barber conspiracy against us!

They did for the Sunday. Now it's the Monday night which is more of a safety risk imo we have to pay. Stumped up £17 for my seat. Don't want to go through a repeat of last time. Personally I think the club should pay it

 

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nickgusset Flag Shizzlehurst 21 Dec 17 1.42am

Originally posted by cryrst

Good old unions eh
Originally they did a great job protecting employees as bosses took the piss and worked unsafely.
Nowadays they call out workers over non urgent or non dangerous situations.
Mainly dough and keeping themselves in a job!!!
Why not just ban overtime working unilaterally.
That would have an effect in the bosses pocket as agency staff are dearer.
Why punish normal people going about they're business.
Disgraceful


They don't run the trains. They get paid regardless whether their service is white or not.

 
Badger11 Flag Beckenham 26 Dec 17 2.55pm

Originally posted by Epsom Eagle


If you ban overtime there would be even fewer trains running as Southern need their drivers to work their rest days.
You can't use agency staff to drive trains, each driver needs to be trained in all aspects of the railway rules & regulations, traction and route knowledge (this can take 12-18 months).
Trains will still run as it's only RMT striking & not Aslef.


The Rail unions haven't learnt from the failed strikes of the past such as the dockers and print workers. They claim they're concerns are about passenger safety. Well when a tube driver was sacked for failing a breathalyzer they called a one day strike. They claimed it was a false positive because he was a diabetic yet failed to provide any medical proof to back that claim.
LBC asked a medical expert who poo pooed it. A mate of mine who is a tube driver felt it was all about the sacked driver being a mate of the union bosses.

When driverless trains are proposed and the unions ask the public for their support I wonder if they will get it?. Same mate has told me that the technology has been installed on several tube lines just not switched on. How long before it is on the railways.

Better to work with progress than draw a line in the sand. By the way how did it work out for the dockers and the print workers?

 

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