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Southern Rail STRIKE details
- Thread starter Ernest
- Start date
studio150
Well-known member
So still no trains for Friday and also no trains for Tuesday. At this rate if we get a home tie in the EFL draw tonight there will still be no trains for the 2nd round game.
Albion Dan
Banned
Customers are by and large very happy with our service thanks.
- Aug 7, 2003
- 7,827
Can I just put in a word for South West Trains as they are nearly always on time and have very friendly guards
Milano
Well-known member
If we draw Liverpool then where will it be played? Their ground isn't ready, they're saying if they get a home draw they will request it's switched to an away and we couldn't accommodate a sell out with no trains!
Deadly Danson
Well-known member
Can I just put in a word for South West Trains as they are nearly always on time and have very friendly guards
And advertise the fact that their trains will have a guard. Southern could learn a lot.
Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
And thats the message that those guards really need to hammer home. Get the banners out. I posted a link on cheap portable ones. Easily done at a moments notice.
The latest update on the travel disruption.
Brighton & Hove Albion fans are advised that although industrial action has been suspended by Southern railway workers, the club has been advised that no train services will stop at Falmer station after 5pm on Friday.
Supporters travelling to our home match with Nottingham Forest are therefore advised to still seek alternative methods of transport.
Read more at http://www.seagulls.co.uk/news/arti...-hove-albion-3239809.aspx#aR8hOZXwq9HgtLi2.99
Brighton & Hove Albion fans are advised that although industrial action has been suspended by Southern railway workers, the club has been advised that no train services will stop at Falmer station after 5pm on Friday.
Supporters travelling to our home match with Nottingham Forest are therefore advised to still seek alternative methods of transport.
Read more at http://www.seagulls.co.uk/news/arti...-hove-albion-3239809.aspx#aR8hOZXwq9HgtLi2.99
Milano
Well-known member
Enough is enough, the club needs to sue. This must be breach of contract and they need to show the fans they care. This would be big in the media too.
Copied from a guards Facebook page, well ex guard as he got the sack for speaking on the radio and TV about the dispute
Why do GTR Southern persist with the nonsense about staff's salaries being guaranteed? This has never been an issue in this dispute. RMT and the conductors they represent are not asking for more money.
The truth is that GTR are offering the following to staff in order to persuade them to accept the proposed changes:
1) An immediate 10% pay rise
2) The improvement to pensions that this would bring about.
3) A reduction in the working from 5 or 6 days to just 4
4) A more varied and interesting job as an OBS
5) Removal of the threat of up to 5 years imprisonment if a passenger were to be injured as a result of a failure on the part of the conductor.
This is what conductors are turning down! Ask yourselves "Why? Are they mad?"
Its really very simple. The answer needs just one word!
SAFETY! Yours and that of everybody else!
Why do GTR Southern persist with the nonsense about staff's salaries being guaranteed? This has never been an issue in this dispute. RMT and the conductors they represent are not asking for more money.
The truth is that GTR are offering the following to staff in order to persuade them to accept the proposed changes:
1) An immediate 10% pay rise
2) The improvement to pensions that this would bring about.
3) A reduction in the working from 5 or 6 days to just 4
4) A more varied and interesting job as an OBS
5) Removal of the threat of up to 5 years imprisonment if a passenger were to be injured as a result of a failure on the part of the conductor.
This is what conductors are turning down! Ask yourselves "Why? Are they mad?"
Its really very simple. The answer needs just one word!
SAFETY! Yours and that of everybody else!
Exactly this. Guards and drivers need to be seem in full uniform and making it clear (possibly through a banner) that they are there to work, point out empty trains that are cancelled and cause embarrassment to their paymasters. Staff have lost a lot of support through the strikes, here is a gilt-edged opportunity to win it back.
Deadly Danson
Well-known member
It's a great idea but it isn't as easy as that. Legally the guards are allowed to strike and display banners etc. Publicly bad mouthing the company during working hours would be seen as a disciplinary offence, hence staff being dismissed for Facebook posts etc
Behind Enemy Lines
Well-known member
Tory MP on Channel 4 news has just admitted the Tory's want to " break the union".
Unlikely to help the on-going situation.
Unlikely to help the on-going situation.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,369
i'd have thought this was obvious: to reassure the staff that post role change there will not be salary change. if they didnt say this RMT would immediatly be claiming its leading to re-grading of roles etc.
Yeah, I get that. Hopefully someone clever comes up with an idea to get around that without getting the sack.
The Wookiee
Back From The Dead
So the strike has been suspended, please tell me what benefit this has to me as a commuter and an Albion fan ?
Norman Baker suck my lozenge
New member
Not an awful lot really,southern are so desperately understaffed,they just can't blame the nasty unions anymore.
Norman Baker suck my lozenge
New member
That's not exactly breaking news,the torys will only ever be happy when the working classes are all working for Sports direct and asking for a day off to give birth.