Do you support the RMT?

[bluethrunthru]

Out the bastards - the public needs to know

 

[bluethrunthru]

Hate the machines with a passion, what's the point in having a row of barriers and 5 employees checking the tickets the machines don't work with?

People make businesses not machines, I haven't got the solution here but having empty train stations isn't that solution, more people less machines please.

same all over isn't it? Self service tills. Parking you can only pay for on line etc etc - when it inevitably goes wrong human intervention is needed.

 

[mat]

Out the bastards - the public needs to know

It's boils my piss how much this isn't emphasised.

The Rosco's practices are licenses to print money.

Schapps has been demonising us with his archaic practices jibes. Yet says fuck all about this.

 

[bluethrunthru]

It's boils my piss how much this isn't emphasised.

The Rosco's practices are licenses to print money.

Schapps has been demonising us with his archaic practices jibes. Yet says fuck all about this.

why would that be? Privatisation is the only bit of Thatcherism they remain wedded to

 

[bluethrunthru]

A Brillo fail

 

[mat]

A Brillo fail

Another arse handed out.

 

[Vic]

Sold off cheap at privatisation to managers who then sold them on at huge personal profit.

Because the operating franchises are maybe a fifth of the lifespan of the rolling stock, you have to lease rather than buy - otherwise when Avanti takes over from Virgin, you've got no Pendolinos. Or when Northern Railway takes over from Northern Trains you've got no Pacers (I think they have all gone now).

Or you renationalise and the state owns and operates the trains. What a simple idea. Then you can save billions by standardisation and not have different companies with different trains that other companies' drivers can't drive.

 

[Blue Maverick]

A Brillo fail

Thats the whole point of the union it represents everybody! This unfortunately means the scabs who cross the picket line will still get the rise as well, it’s called collective bargaining. I was invited on Radio 4 to argue my case for strike action, take a listen if you like it’s only 10 mins (although the conversation was 70 mins), be gentle ;)

The Listening Project - Lessons in Life - BBC Sounds

Strikes; loneliness, Long Covid kids and home schooling, the joy of being ten years old.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[mat]

Sold off cheap at privatisation to managers who then sold them on at huge personal profit.

Because the operating franchises are maybe a fifth of the lifespan of the rolling stock, you have to lease rather than buy - otherwise when Avanti takes over from Virgin, you've got no Pendolinos. Or when Northern Railway takes over from Northern Trains you've got no Pacers (I think they have all gone now).

Or you renationalise and the state owns and operates the trains. What a simple idea. Then you can save billions by standardisation and not have different companies with different trains that other companies' drivers can't drive.

On of the "archaic practices" Schapps doesn't want to talk about is how major stations such as Manchester Piccadilly have to refuse wheelchair passengers on some services because they don't have the correct Ramps for the trains that arrive. Network rail and the TOCs involved refuse to pay for the specific ramps arguing it's the other party that pays. I have to take those passengers off at Stockport and arrange taxis to get them them there.

 

[Postman Pep]