b******s. That is all.

"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

Holding people to ransom again eh? No surprises there, it's what they do.

Fully support the strikes, I worked in HR for a Train Operating Company for 6 years.Management at these companies are vile...I cringe at some of the meetings I witnessed.
I remember speaking to one manager who was on over 200k basic, telling me he had a plan how we could get around paying the cleaners for their lunch breaks.. his plan was in stead of them working a 8 hour all day shift, make them work 2 4 hour shifts. Cleaners were on 6.52 a hour.
The franchise system means companies come in, try to make as much money as possible knowing that they may not get another opportunity.
The management hate and I mean Hate unions... because they see them as a obstacle to them making more money.
They utterly hate the drivers... they have power.. this pisses them off no end.
Biggest regret of my career working for them... I sold my soul for £££

We all know the companies are a disgrace because we have to put up with their poor service daily but the persistent battle between staff and management helps nothing. Further it seems an industry of perpetual buck passing between operators, governemnt, drivers and Network Rail

Of course this latest strike over (mythical) conducters is a money saving exercise but even without fears over safety and redundancies, there are strikes to inhibit any sort of progress or change which union members don't endorse, while virtually every change at work inconveniences me and I have to get on with it because it's not a change resistant unionised public service.

Edited by johnfirewall (26 Apr 2016 1.11pm)

If you're not in said union, yes that's all they do.

Optimistic as ever

You're just making things up now.

Working class people fighting for their jobs always gets my support.