RMT signal staff vote for strikes

[fullyautomatix]

After the BA strikes we are hearing about train company employees going for a siesta.

It isn't like these employees are being forced at gunpoint to go and work in these companies. So what is going on ? How could private sector companies let Unions become bigger than the company? And how could this happen during Labour in power and a few months before election ?

Thankfully I am not travelling anywhere this Easter, but if I was taking the train and it was cancelled because of strikes I would be supremely pissed.

[minestrone]

What I ...trying to hold back... hate about the RMT is the way the train staff get to wear the union tie and badge as if it is uniform.

Even the poles who are working on my trains now have them.

Honestly, sack the lot of them, the GMT are striking in Scotland over train guards on the new line between Edinburgh and Glasgow.

******* hate the lot of them.

EDIT: removed the obvious swear filter tryer: 4 hours a day commuting on the trains does that to you.

[fullyautomatix]

Why are they striking ? It isnt a council job or anything where they are stuck for life. It's private sector, so why cant they do what we do and join another company? Surely their skills will be appreciated by a competing company ?

[minestrone]

Why are they striking ? It isnt a council job or anything where they are stuck for life. It's private sector, so why cant they do what we do and join another company? Surely their skills will be appreciated by a competing company ?

...calm...angry...calm...compose...

A drunken train driver who was caught three times over the alcohol limit after downing a bottle of whisky while on duty has been jailed for more than four months.

linky

then there was the other guy who got so pissed on the job he forgot to open the doors and fell asleep leaving everyone stuck on the train and Edinburgh.

My rants could go on and on and on

[shaunbhoy]

The RMT. Are they the ones with that nice Mr Bob Crow in charge? He always comes across as such a personable conciliatory chap............NOT!
He has the sort of face you'd never get tired of kicking!!!

[minestrone]

A week of trains and I am having a nice time just now, Oban 14 year old, a bolivar, beach boys on the big speakers.

Give it monday morning I will be back on this thread.

[xoggoth]

Automate them and sack all the staff.. Sure it should be possible to have a robot train that was safer than one with a human driver.

[Moscow Mule]

Automate them and sack all the staff.. Sure it should be possible to have a robot train that was safer than one with a human driver.

It'll only be another 10-15 years before we all live a life of luxury whilst robots do all our work for us....

[threaded]

Automate them and sack all the staff.. Sure it should be possible to have a robot train that was safer than one with a human driver.

Erm, the signals people are them that look after and maintain the many automated systems on the railways: things like track circuits (you no longer need a guy at each end, the tokens are transferred electrically) the switches (you no longer need a guy at either end to push them over and make sure they're locked).

[doodab]

It'll only be another 10-15 years before we all live in vats of sludge while robots harvest our body heat for energy...

FTFY