pb21
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- Apr 23, 2010
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It’s not really a chip on the shoulder thing though is it?
Tory thinking is along the lines of if doing A over B increases the obvious and immediate financial profit then A is better.
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It’s not really a chip on the shoulder thing though is it?
Tory thinking is along the lines of if doing A over B increases the obvious and immediate financial profit then A is better.
proof of what?? That the strikers are adding to the misery of train travellers...I should think that was pretty obvious with the nos of trains cancelled.
It was not that long ago passengers were deemed able to open and close doors for themselves!!! I for one would be happy to manually open the door although these days it only entails pushing a button I assume.
Well I would have thought that you who`ve been rattling on about it would agree that the train service from the south (I`m interested in Eastbourne to London line) is piss poor and Striking does not help us travellers in the least as many trains are cancelled. Get back working with no threats of striking and travel service would improve...Don`t you agree ??
pb21
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- Apr 23, 2010
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Yeah you train plebs should know your place so I can get my train to London on time, and while your at it you can lick my shoes clean too.
The Albion Roar
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What strike?
There have been seven days of strikes this year, which led to disruption on those days, and is irritating. There has, however, been a full-blown programme of worsening cancellations, instigated by GTR, which are nothing to do with strikes, sickness or any industrial action, even though they'd love you to gullibly believe that.
So in answer to your question - no, travel service would not improve.
Calling your post childish would be an insult to children............So you abuse your paying customers as you do your employers...Without Customers or Employers you may well struggle.....
Contrary to what you might believe I think......I do believe that the railway workers/Union are only part of the problem...I agree with you that heads need banging together and compromise is needed from both sides...However SASTA do not as far as I know come on NSC so I can`t have a go at them.
beardy gull
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I can't see any tweet from Southern saying this?
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The Albion Roar
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In terms of disruption through industrial action / strikes, the RMT must take a certain amount of responsibility. I believe that if they must indulge in industrial action, they are far more imaginative in their methods. Strikes are the ultimate - the 'nuclear option'. There are others ways of showing their displeasure. One suggestion I have is to have the staff work as normal, but not collect fares / allow people through permanently open platform gates. I do understand that may piss season ticket holders off, but it wouldn't exactly be every day. And the only people missing out are the franchise holders.
However, regarding the arbitrary cancelling of trains over the past few months, that is almost entirely down to SASTA, in the hope of getting the public onside by blaming the unions. How do we know? The government's top civil servants within the DfT said so at a public meeting.
You don't cancel tens of thousands of trains over several months because of seven days' disruption. Unless you're SASTA. Linking the dispute to the cancellations is exactly what the government and GTR want you to think.
Dolph Ins
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Thanks for that Blue. The Seagulls site is still saying there will be a limited train service tomorrow so use alternative travel. Ho hum
Hampster Gull
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- Dec 22, 2010
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Strikes should be banned on critical services like trains. Just saying
Trains, critical?