Southern Rail STRIKE details

[narly101]

It's always about money but they tart up with words like "customer safety" and the "needs of the consumer" - but it really just boils down to how much the train drivers want in their pocket

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Utterly STUPID to have a pop at the unions over this. IMHO, like. By common consent, the service is better on a non-strike day than it is on a strike day. How about the hard-of-thinking take a moment out of frothing at the mouth to consider just how shite your daily commute is on a non-strike day and there's no leaves on the track and no squirrel trapped in a grille? Which is to say, most days.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Utterly STUPID to have a pop at the unions over this. IMHO, like. By common consent, the service is better on a non-strike day than it is on a strike day. How about the hard-of-thinking take a moment out of frothing at the mouth to consider just how shite your daily commute is on a non-strike day and there's no leaves on the track and no squirrel trapped in a grille? Which is to say, most days.

Course it is brother THPP and some people are more equal than others. So add that to the strikes and there is no let up is there. If its not southern its strikes if its not southern its strikes if its not southern its strikes.

Common consent is its BETTER on strike days (London line anyway).

However now the drivers have joined the party why not have a pop? They too are becoming part of the OVERALL problem.

Personally Im sick of being piggy in the middle. Some of the militants on here talk about the working man. I think most of us here are working men (and women) and rely on the trains, as the OP said generally strikes are supposed to hurt the employer..but they are not they are hurting ME. When it hurts me then I take it PERSONALLY. IMHO like.

 

[wakeytom]

Utterly STUPID to have a pop at the unions over this. IMHO, like. By common consent, the service is better on a non-strike day than it is on a strike day. How about the hard-of-thinking take a moment out of frothing at the mouth to consider just how shite your daily commute is on a non-strike day and there's no leaves on the track and no squirrel trapped in a grille? Which is to say, most days.

Will be interesting if its as good on a strike day over Christmas. Already had to cancel a number of things with friends and family where I normally rely on the trains over Chrsitmas due to the strikes. I have zero sympathy with them and see Ernest as always ignores honest questions as one above as to the reason others can operate in the way that southern are proposing to do.

I wonder how the unions will fell when they have blood on their hands. I for one detest drink driving as many do but some who see it as more an acceptable thing to do, but would normally get the train are likely to push the boundaries more than they would do with a full train service.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

However now the drivers have joined the party why not have a pop? They too are becoming part of the OVERALL problem.

Guess what? GTR performance levels would have been utterly unacceptable during the lifetime of this franchise without any kind of union action at all. Strike action just masks the underlying problem and the total failure of the government departments whose sole sole raison d'etre is to monitor this stuff. Anyore else smell fish?

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Guess what? GTR performance levels would have been utterly unacceptable during the lifetime of this franchise without any kind of union action at all. Strike action just masks the underlying problem and the total failure of the government departments whose sole sole raison d'etre is to monitor this stuff. Anyore else smell fish?

I agree there the whole thing is corrupt, rotten and morally ambiguous to say the least...however the unions are battling the government and in war terms the passengers are collateral damage here...and thats unacceptable. We are being ****** over enough by an already unfit for purpose "system"

If they have a problem they should be marching to number 10 or some original campaigns that I dunno a football club that had their home sold by moneymen under their feet conducted maybe.

 

[Arthur]

Guess what? GTR performance levels would have been utterly unacceptable during the lifetime of this franchise without any kind of union action at all. Strike action just masks the underlying problem and the total failure of the government departments whose sole sole raison d'etre is to monitor this stuff. Anyore else smell fish?

I don't think anyone has disputed that. At least I haven't anyway.

I still don't have any sympathy with the union because they are making and already shit situation shitter fighting a battle they've already lost.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I don't think anyone has disputed that. At least I haven't anyway.

I still don't have any sympathy with the union because they are making and already shit situation shitter fighting a battle they've already lost.

And here we have the most sensible post on the thread.

 

[Bozza]

Tube drivers have just voted to strike too.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

And here we have the most sensible post on the thread.

To be fair most of us have been saying that.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

If the government had one iota of common sense, then Peter Wilkinson should have been out on his ear as soon as his 'break the unions' guff got into the public domain.

Like a red rag to a bull, Cash et al have taken this up with a mandate to defend their position. Started off with a noble cause, but now I reckon a serious number have forgotten, or at least lost sight of, what they're fighting for.

Wikinson gave the RMT and ASLEF carte blanche to fight for whatever they felt like, purely because they wanted the fight. As TMLS said, it's US that are being f***ed, not the government/DafT/Southern/GTR/ASLEF/RMT.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Tube drivers have just voted to strike too.

Isnt it only Central and Piccadilly lines?

 

[pearl]

And here we have the most sensible post on the thread.

I have sympathy for everyone that has to use southern rail or works for the company. I'm starting to feel ASLEF have fvcked the RMT over somewhat and as most of the guards have signed the new contracts it isn't looking good for anyone IMHO

 

[beorhthelm]

I don't think anyone has disputed that. At least I haven't anyway.

I still don't have any sympathy with the union because they are making and already shit situation shitter fighting a battle they've already lost.

thats the stupidity of it, they've told their members to accept the new role. while not accepting any conditions around when the OBS is required, weakening them long term.

 

[Springal]

Service going to shit again. No 16.20 to Brighton, 16.17 to Littlehampton doesn't have a driver from Haywards Heath so terminating there

 

[1066familyman]

Will be interesting if its as good on a strike day over Christmas. Already had to cancel a number of things with friends and family where I normally rely on the trains over Chrsitmas due to the strikes. I have zero sympathy with them and see Ernest as always ignores honest questions as one above as to the reason others can operate in the way that southern are proposing to do.

I wonder how the unions will fell when they have blood on their hands. I for one detest drink driving as many do but some who see it as more an acceptable thing to do, but would normally get the train are likely to push the boundaries more than they would do with a full train service.

Wow!

So now, on top of everything else the unions are to blame for, they're to be blamed for any increase in drink driving over the Christmas period too!?

Incredible. Simple incredible.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Drink driving after Amex evening games has surely increased with the disintegration of the evening match rail service.

Either that or the albion have some very poor drivers amongst their support.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Tube drivers have just voted to strike too.

Oh finally some good news.

 

[pearl]

Service going to shit again. No 16.20 to Brighton, 16.17 to Littlehampton doesn't have a driver from Haywards Heath so terminating there

loads of cancelled trains on east coast again tonight .... can only see it getting worse next week and it's e-ffing cold

 

[Ernest]

Will be interesting if its as good on a strike day over Christmas. Already had to cancel a number of things with friends and family where I normally rely on the trains over Chrsitmas due to the strikes. I have zero sympathy with them and see Ernest as always ignores honest questions as one above as to the reason others can operate in the way that southern are proposing to do.

I wonder how the unions will fell when they have blood on their hands. I for one detest drink driving as many do but some who see it as more an acceptable thing to do, but would normally get the train are likely to push the boundaries more than they would do with a full train service.

Hysterical OVERREACTION #stupididiot