Do you support the RMT?

My mate works for London Underground- works in the control room- gets 80k plus bonus
Yet a co pilot with EasyJet after paying over £130k for his own training and in an incredibly difficult and stressful job gets about £32k
 
Thatcher tried to kill the Union movement. That should tell you all you need to know.
My parents were a shop steward union man and his Thatcher loving wife.
Christ knows how they celebrated 50 years of marriage ;-)
He hated Thatcher, she loved her. She hated the days of the early to mid 1970s when unions were all powerful (according to her).
Yet we need unions now like never before, because it's almost the last bastion of the working man and woman
 
Any reason you chose EasyJet?
Nope, other than I heard what the basic starting pay on one of those “come fly with us”type docu soaps they did.
My basic point is in the private sector the market dictates pay, like it or lump it
As regards the public sector, the Railways get public subsidies.
In other words tax Payers, not customers, on nothing like that amount of money, are having to pay for these excessive wages out of their taxes
If the railways relied on customer funding only and made a profit good luck to the staff.
 
Thatcher tried to kill the Union movement. That should tell you all you need to know.
My parents were a shop steward union man and his Thatcher loving wife.
Christ knows how they celebrated 50 years of marriage ;-)
He hated Thatcher, she loved her. She hated the days of the early to mid 1970s when unions were all powerful (according to her).
Yet we need unions now like never before, because it's almost the last bastion of the working man and woman
Ask the Car Industry how the Unions helped ruin them in the 70’s/80’s.
 
It’s like all other threads on politics this.
Seems to attract the same old faces.
If you look at the voting pattern above less than 10% oppose the strike which is about par for the course.
If you went out on the street and ask Joe Public their thoughts on strike action me thinks the percentages may be a little bit different.
Impossible to have a reasoned debate on a 10-1 basis
 

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