I'm concerned we won't get get the threshold for a reballot like the nurses.Difficult as the Tories have chosen the railway unions to make their stance, and as there’s profit it in for the networks, by way of the countries people, it suits their agenda.
Said many months back that this would get screwed, hopefully nobody affected by this has even a thought of voting Tory.
That's me fucked for the Fulham match. :(other words, you could have the poor pay increase if thousands of us are made redundant and you allow us to rip up everything we have negotiated and agreed in the past.
We will not
All members involved in the dispute to take strike action and NOT TO BOOK ON for any shifts between:
- 0001 and 2359 hrs on Saturday 26th August 2023
- 0001 and 2359 hrs on Saturday 2nd September 2023
I ask you again to stand firm, take the action, keep campaigning and see our dispute through.
Yours sincerely
Michael Lynch
General Secretary
How come they generally target weekends now and not week days?
Seems a risky game going forward. I feel like train travel has become unacceptably unreliable and expensive to be worth using now.
Better to drive, get a coach or even sometimes fly.
Because it's now the busiest day of the week as commuter travel has dropped off with WFH culture.
And it means the employees in supervisory and management grades covering front line roles are inconvenienced by being forced by senior management to work Saturdays.
How come prices haven't reflected that then? Peak time fares are still on week days.
Perhaps because since privatisation, the railways, (and the buses), have been run on a profit-making basis, not as a low-cost service for the public, with profits syphoned off to the shareholders who, in many cases, are not even based in this country. A fucking diabolical shambles.How come prices haven't reflected that then? Peak time fares are still on week days.