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They certainly must be in the Top 5 Public Sector Cunt Showers of All Time. Fuck them, fire them and give their jobs to some of those Indian workers that have got IronGiant so riled up this morning. |
Tube Strikes • Page 2
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StarchildHypocrethes 33,974 posts
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myk 796 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI think that they should be allowed to strike, but that it should be limited so that they don't take down the entire system (say one or two lines per day). At the moment the impact of strikes is disproportionate to their demands. -
myk wrote:
I think that they should be allowed to strike, but that it should be limited so that they don't take down the entire system (say one or two lines per day). At the moment the impact of strikes is disproportionate to their demands.
Whatever their demands they would be disporportionate, they're already overpaid.
It's a fucking disgrace. -
boo 13,901 posts
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Registered 18 years ago3000 strikers. 3,000,000 affected Londoners.
Put each striking tube worker in a pit with 1,000 Londoners, and if he's still of a mind, after one hour, then he can go on strike. -
boo wrote:
Joyous. Got to get in to work tomorrow for a course that's been booked for ages, so can't be moved.
Which means walking from Kings Cross to Victoria, and then back again at the end of the day.
I may take a baseball bat just in case I see Bob Crow. It'll help me put my considered opinion across with a bit more impact.
AHA! How long does that take? I might do that tomorrow. -
boo 13,901 posts
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Registered 18 years agoGoogle maps says 1 hour 10 mins, but I can cut across the park and save a bit of time. I reckon an hour. -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoExcept they're not public sector, strictly speaking are they? Just protected rights/Unionised from when they were - so blame the Govt that let them keep that!
Thankfully doesn't affect me when I'm in town, but it's a shambles that pretty much an entire economy can be brought to a halt by a few hundred workers. -
Wobble 1,028 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThe best bit about this is the reason that they're striking:
"they don't feel that they should be financially affected by mistakes made by bankers"
seriously... what fucking planet are they living on?
Why the hell is there a law not protecting london from shit like this? If you work as a part of essential infrastructure for the city then this shit needs to be made illegal. -
Wobble wrote:
The best bit about this is the reason that they're striking:
"they don't feel that they should be financially affected by mistakes made by bankers"
seriously... what fucking planet are they living on?
Why the hell is there a law not protecting london from shit like this? If you work as a part of essential infrastructure for the city then this shit needs to be made illegal.
Have you spoken to the average Tube employee? Occasionally they're alright and granted, a few are pretty cool, but most of the time they come off as bored, unintelligent cunts who've bagged an easy job with great pay.
So yes, this doesn't suprise me that this unrealistic, idiotic view is being peddled by the Tube mafia. -
Fatiguez 8,930 posts
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Registered 13 years agoDon't these people already get paid more than teachers? Unbelievable -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoGood luck anyone going to the football at Wembley tomorrow. Jesus, that would be a hellish journey. -
Phily50 2,384 posts
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Registered 15 years agoWobble wrote:
The best bit about this is the reason that they're striking:
"they don't feel that they should be financially affected by mistakes made by bankers"
According to the London Evening Standard:
'Tube shut down by dispute over two sacked men'
Wankers. -
Hunam 20,675 posts
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Registered 15 years agoDon't most men have two sacks? -
They've got a lot of balls.
/two sack joke in case you didn't spot it. -
MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI am less than impressed with them this time around. I don't mind the walk so much, but it means getting up so much earlier =( Several people here are having to use holiday because it's too much of a pain for them to get in. -
Grunk 4,718 posts
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Registered 17 years agoWhy can't you just sack them for not turning up to work?
That way they don't get redundancy, they also don't get to sign on for a while I don't think.
Then hire folk with a no-union clause in their contracts. -
Hunam 20,675 posts
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Registered 15 years agoThat's all very good ideas Grunk, and illegal, but still good ideas. -
Phily50 2,384 posts
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Registered 15 years agoFrom the Standard:
One driver, Carl Campbell, was sacked for opening the doors on the wrong side of the train at a Victoria line station, then lying about carrying out safety checks.
The other, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is due to go on trial later this month for theft.
RMT chief Bob Crow said he was willing to meet for further talks today - but only with the Mayor or Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy.
Boris Johnson labelled the RMT leadership "demented".
He has launched an unprecedented "Keep London Moving" campaign, with extra buses, more river boat services and a taxi-sharing scheme during peak hours at rail stations.
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MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI don't think stopping people from having the protection of a union is a good idea. There ought to be a middle ground between arsehole strikes and Masters over Slaves. -
StarchildHypocrethes 33,974 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI think it's outrageous they were sacked for blatant breaches of working practice.
The unions can get fucked as far as I'm concerned. I don't have one so no-one can.gif)
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Just got my oyster card fixed, the guy at the counter wasn't part of the union and was embaressed by what's going on. None of the staff had been told exactly what was going on and probably won't until the last minute, and frankly he was entirely embaressed by it because people kept asking and he didn't know. -
I don't get why they need a union any more than people with a regular job. The rest of us work on the basic principle that if you don't like your pay, you can either find another job, or ask for a pay rise, but refusing to work until you get one isn't an opinion, and fucking damn right! -
Also, have to say, Boris hasn't exactly been the unprecedented disaster some were predicting before, has he... -
MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agoTo be fair, no, he hasn't. -
Plus he has the entertainment value when he falls over. -
replace them with robots like on the dlr!
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