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Southern Rail STRIKE details
- Thread starter Ernest
- Start date
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
I hadn't even noticed that the date was July 13th. Even emails about SASTA are delayed.......................
I guess that's the 6.15 I sometimes catch at Wivelsfield. It's a Southern Service, so check Bet365 on the odds of it running before you leave home.........it also hooks up with another train at Haywards Heath, so as well as 5-10 mins not moving, you have a risk of waiting for the arse-end of the train to turn up. If your meeting is important I'd get the earlier Thameslink......probably leaves around 5.50 ?
Yeah that's it. Ok thanks for the advice, possibly worth getting up a bit earlier then !
Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
Im minded to think the "sickies" are returning. This Sat trains cancelled due to a shortage of train crew from Hove and Brighton.
Sunday on my return cancellations at Victoria again "due to a shortage of train crew"
Unlike last time where staff were ready and SASTA didnt deploy them, this time Im minded to say the sick notes are back in play. Lets not forget this is a reduced timetable they are running.
Sunday on my return cancellations at Victoria again "due to a shortage of train crew"
Unlike last time where staff were ready and SASTA didnt deploy them, this time Im minded to say the sick notes are back in play. Lets not forget this is a reduced timetable they are running.
Deadly Danson
Well-known member
Not at the weekend it's not.
pearl
Well-known member
I cut through Btn Stn on Saturday, lots of fed up people sitting about, saw the signs saying Shortage of Train Crew blah blah blah.
I sent an email to the new Rail Minister last week and got this reply:
'You may know that there is a strict Parliamentary protocol that means that MPs may only act on behalf of their own constituents. My constituency covers the area of Blackpool North & Cleveleys. If you are one of my constituents please ensure you have included your full name, postal address and telephone number in your e-mail. This will help me to deal with your communication more effectively and you will receive a reply in due course. Without these details it will not be possible to reply.'
Now I'm back from holiday and the football season is under way, this absolute cluster**** could well impact me finally.
What's the latest - are the union prepared to come to the table yet?
What's the latest - are the union prepared to come to the table yet?
yxee
Well-known member
They're striking for two days next week as far as I can tell, so I imagine not.
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
An ASLEF ballot for a train driver strike has been called off. Talks at Acas regarding next weeks RMT strike start tomorrow -
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/tran...es-rise-for-end-to-rail-dispute-a3332301.html
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/tran...es-rise-for-end-to-rail-dispute-a3332301.html
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
I have to attend a wedding in Dorset the day before our next home game against Brentford, so am planning on travelling to the Amex by train on the Sat morning, connecting at Southampton with the 10.32 Southern service to Brighton. I hope to God that one runs!
Southern are shit! The senior management are unbelievably incompetent. They have been delivering a poor service for years.
And yet, somehow, the RMT is making Southern look like the good guys. That takes some doing.
If the RMT has a good case for the "I wanna push the button" argument, come out on strike and STAY OUT! At least then we'd know there was no service and can adjust our lives accordingly. That way, the shareholders would force Southern to concede, or the workers would force the RMT to concede. Either way, at least we'd have a quick resolution.
All this fannying about and waving handbags at each other is achieving NOTHING other than to blight the lives of the train company's passengers.
And yet, somehow, the RMT is making Southern look like the good guys. That takes some doing.
If the RMT has a good case for the "I wanna push the button" argument, come out on strike and STAY OUT! At least then we'd know there was no service and can adjust our lives accordingly. That way, the shareholders would force Southern to concede, or the workers would force the RMT to concede. Either way, at least we'd have a quick resolution.
All this fannying about and waving handbags at each other is achieving NOTHING other than to blight the lives of the train company's passengers.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,246
For me the very worst aspect of this dispute is the way that the government appears to be quite happy for economic and social devastation to be visited on a whole region. Still, it's not like the Tories don't have previous form in that respect.
I know what you mean. As a commuter, I'm trying not to buckle when it comes to guard sympathy. I just keep reminding myself of the situation - the government are fighting a proxy war against the unions under the guise of Southern who aren't a franchise and are essentially running services under license. Unfortunately, Southern are a shockingly CRAP firm who can't run the trains and seem incapable of running industrial relations. Union intransigence comes a long way down the list of blame for this utter shameful situation.
pearl
Well-known member
this is what I can't understand.... months of appalling disruption and the government do nothing
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
- Thread starter
- #2,879
The summer trading season has been ruined for many in Brighton and Sussex, so they will not be making the cash, thus not paying taxes, they will lay off staff thus putting them on benefits and you get a vicious circle that ends up costing the government a lot more than they are trying to save but as long as those trade unionists are put in their place that is all that matters
The Merry Prankster
Pactum serva
The Goverment are causing it (by proxy).