London Underground

[SueEllen]

Teachers strike are different, they are striking because the regulations are affecting ALL teachers across the country (workign for the government) not just because one teacher was sacked unfairly!!!!

There has been a school where all the teachers in that school have gone on strike due to unruly pupils and a bad head.

Unfortunately you can't really compare tube workers and teachers for more reasons than that.

Edited to say: Luckily not all tube workers are members of the RMT. Some are in no union and others are in different unions. So there will be tubes on the Northern Line for example.

[PinkPoshRat]

I like to see what would happen if all contractors were to strike

[TykeMerc]

I like to see what would happen if all contractors were to strike

That's simple, the strikers would be terminated and very rapidly replaced. The whole point of contract resource is it's short term and expendable.

[original PM]

I like to see what would happen if all contractors were to strike

How would you tell?

[amcdonald]

How would you tell?

They'd notice less people searching for meaty cock burgers ?

[TimberWolf]

And the pain hasn't even started yet.

Good Mash article:

The disagreement is over pensions, with public sector workers being asked if they would actually like to contribute some money towards them.

But the arbitration experts Acas said many Unison members struggle to differentiate between employment and retirement and currently believe they are being asked to pay for going to work.

The Daily Mash - Council offices to grind to whatever is slower than a halt

[PinkPoshRat]

That's simple, the strikers would be terminated and very rapidly replaced. The whole point of contract resource is it's short term and expendable.

Don't get all serious on me, it was a joke!

[zamzummim]

Secretary Dave Prentis said: "If our demands are not met, bins will continue to just sit there forever and ever

Am I the only one who sees this as a business opportunity

[amcdonald]

Am I the only one who sees this as a business opportunity

What like offering a pest control service once all the rats go postal ?

[Sysman]

The interim employment tribunal ruling is that the guy was sacked due to union activities.

That's a good reason to strike. Unions and their reps are there to stand up for workers rights. (I personally know someone who was paid off due to his union activities and this company was locking fire exits.)

Even though we are contractors some of the laws around to protect us i.e. Health and safety wouldn't be around without unions.

Yep. One of my student holiday jobs was carrying weft t' t'looms and the older folks there had horror stories of what it had been like: mechanics working on running machinery and losing limbs; huge leather belts driving machinery, and when those snapped folks got seriously maimed or killed, no safety guards etc.

I used to have a good mate who was union shop steward. A fair bit of his work was Health and Safety. He was on the buses, and for example he did ensure that drivers weren't asked to exceed their legal working hours. He also represented workers facing disciplinary charges. There's more to it than negotiating pay rises. That in itself is typically very confrontational, with both sides asking for the impossible in the board room, but it's normally settled during a rest break.

Having said that, I'm pretty anti-union and have never been a member of one, but I do think there's a place for them as long as they aren't run by Marxist madmen (or champagne socialists).

While Bob Crow is a Marxist f*****r unfortunately some of what he has said previously about TFL and London Underground i.e. over the tube maintence contracts was true.

Oh and teachers are striking as well on 30th June. The government must be really pissing people off if a teaching union that has never striked in it's history is striking.

Which union is that? I'm relying on memory here, but I'm pretty sure at least one of the teachers' unions has gone on strike in the past.