Below is a post from a Rail Worker explaining exactly what their strike action is about. Despite what the Tories and their media chums are ramming down our throats, it is not actually about them demanding a pay rise over 3% below the rate of inflation!
"Three years ago we accepted a 0% pay rise, two years ago we accepted a 0% pay rise.
But this year they came to us with a 0% pay rise plus over 2500 redundancies, changes to terms and conditions. An increase from 28 weeks of nights to 39 weeks of nights. An increase from 32 weekends worked to 39 weekends worked.
Currently for a night shift we get time and a quarter, for a weekend turn we get time and a half. They wish to cut both of these to time and a tenth.
So that’s a 15% pay cut on every night shift and a 40% pay cut on every weekend turn. But they want us to work more of them.
This is their modernisation they talk about. Not technology, we embrace technology and have seen more and more of it in recent years.
They also wish to fire and re-hire the operative grades and bring them back under a new job title but on £9000 a year less.
They also want them to use their own vehicles to get to work sites, this when fuel is at its highest. They will also be pooled when currently they are part of the team.
The press are painting this to be about pay above all else. It is not. But now we’ve said sod them we are going to demand better. I wish everyone could see past the government controlled media smear."
Hopefully this could be the beginning of the end for boris.
Try not to get involved in politics but I will say that I do support them and more unions are joining them.
London underground joining them really changes things.
It's one thing that boris advises people to " stay the course" for trains around the country . London will be crippled by the tube shutdown and people wont stay the course if it continues and that looks a given.
If I heard it right they want something like 11% and have been offered 3% ( might be wrong ).
It's unlikely that they're going to strike til they get 11% , I think that's a good negotiating strategy, and probably will try and settle around 5-7%.
Etonian turd is saying it would push up inflation , bs !
The debt this cunt-ry is in and the level of ignorance especially doon south is astounding.
If he survives til the next GE surely those who voted for him in the north ( which is manchester and liverpool to the arrogant fks in the south ) and those in Newcastle wont be fooled again.
Hes shown ( unintentionally) however the real level of indifference that exists between the have's and have not's within parliament and rich tories/rich people in general.
He can lie, break the law , admit to doing it and still it's ok for the English to continue to follow him.
Those who voted with him in the vote of no confidence recently should also be hounded out as theyve shown that by not voting against him , it's ok to have a lying cheating PM ( something that has always been there , they just didnt openly admit it) now they openly do admit it I'm dismayed with the English voting public who many just think no-one else could do it, run the country, so vote Tory cos they dont know what to do.
Boris doesnt run anything, hes a yes man to corporate/financial industry as all leaders are.
Crippling the capital's transport system will have as big an effect as crippling the rest of the countrys transport system.
Hopefully it will be joined by many others, which will bring hardship ( not something I want to happen) but given the u- turns already made by boris's government another one will hopefully be on the way