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Lincoln Imp

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Feb 2, 2009
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Fascist bully boys with no redeeming features whatsoever. I hold them in absolute contempt.
 

sjamesb3466

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Jan 31, 2009
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Leicester
Fascist bully boys with no redeeming features whatsoever. I hold them in absolute contempt.

I may be wrong and misinterpreted the article but it seems that drivers and other staff are being asked to work nights on certain lines, not increasing the number of hours worked but changing the shift pattern to include these all night shifts. If this is the case I wouldn't work nights for a 2% pay rise and a one off £2000 so I agree with them for fighting for a better deal. If I've got it all wrong then I am just a dunce!
 

Springal

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Feb 12, 2005
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GOSBTS
Is this affecting trains? Southern ?
 


Springal

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Feb 12, 2005
23,682
GOSBTS
100% disagree with you in this case, would you like to work night shifts without being paid for it?

They aren't getting paid? Working for free?
 


Not Andy Naylor

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Dec 12, 2007
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Fascist bully boys with no redeeming features whatsoever. I hold them in absolute contempt.

You don't specify, but I take it you mean the employers, in which case I agree.

Four different unions are involved in the strike action, so it appears that the workers are in accord with you too.
 

Westdene Seagull

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Oct 27, 2003
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Fascist bully boys with no redeeming features whatsoever. I hold them in absolute contempt.

Out of interest, if your employer suddenly forced you to work nights for an extra tenner a week would you doff your cap and say 'Anything you say my Lord' ? Because if you did you'd be f**king stupid.
 
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dazzer6666

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Out of interest, if you're employer suddenly forced you to work nights for an extra tenner a week would you doff your cap and say 'Anything you say my Lord' ? Because if you did you'd be f**king stupid.

I'm usually against the miltants, but agree with them this time.
 

alfredmizen

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Mar 11, 2015
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Fascist bully boys with no redeeming features whatsoever. I hold them in absolute contempt.
Yes they should know their place and be happy to have a job in the first place , who on earth do they think they are ? they should just accept whatever the management want them to do :facepalm:
 


Lincoln Imp

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Feb 2, 2009
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Out of interest, if your employer suddenly forced you to work nights for an extra tenner a week would you doff your cap and say 'Anything you say my Lord' ? Because if you did you'd be f**king stupid.

I don't have an employer. Worked for myself for decades. Frequently did all-nighters for no extra money. They may well have a case this time but the endless sense of entitlement of the public sector and ex-public sector unions just wears me down sometimes.
 

beorhthelm

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Jul 21, 2003
35,238
Out of interest, if your employer suddenly forced you to work nights for an extra tenner a week would you doff your cap and say 'Anything you say my Lord' ? Because if you did you'd be f**king stupid.

i had sympathy for this strike originally. but its not £500, the deal on offer is 2% and £2k. for two nights. im less sympathetic.
 


Westdene Seagull

aka Cap'n Carl Firecrotch
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Oct 27, 2003
20,923
The arse end of Hangleton
I don't have an employer. Worked for myself for decades. Frequently did all-nighters for no extra money. They may well have a case this time but the endless sense of entitlement of the public sector and ex-public sector unions just wears me down sometimes.

But that's YOUR business you're working hard for and also your choice. So the beneficiary of your hard work is you.

i had sympathy for this strike originally. but its not £500, the deal on offer is 2% and £2k. for two nights. im less sympathetic.

It's a one off £2k ( just over a grand after tax and NI ) and an extra tenner a week. Would YOU switch two days for two night for that ? As someone that has done that shift pattern it's actually doing the two nights that does you in - five nights is actually much easier. Regardless, this is also being forced upon them and includes working nights over the weekend. I struggle to believe anyone on here would actually happily accept that change to their own working conditions if it was forced upon them.
 

Ernest

Stupid IDIOT
Nov 8, 2003
42,739
LOONEY BIN
This isn't, but Southern engineers are due to strike next week. Whilst officially things will be 'normal', expect carnage as unexpected faults happen........

http://www.southernrailway.com/sout...mt-industrial-action-on-the-southern-network/

The problems will happen when a train arrives at a terminus with a minor fault that the fitters can fix in a few minutes and away we go with usually hardly any delay caused, no fitter the train will arrive and there it will stop thus causing blockages to platforms. Also units will be recalled to the depot when they're out of mileage and with nobody to service them they will stay there so it has a chance that it will be chaotic if it takes place
 

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