Tube drivers

[BOROMAN]

Get off your backsides and get back to work.

 

Anyone would think this is the 70's ..... strikes are out of date or has nobody told you. They were historic things that used to be led be Scottish people or folk from Yorkshire. Maggie stopped all that.

 

One more thing, the tubes are actually driven by computers now anyway so why do thay want more money for a job they dont even do!

[Hookey]

What?

 

Boroman, I don't know the ins and outs of this particular dispute so I can't comment, but no one goes on strike lightly.

 

You mention "Maggie" in an affectionate term but I think she is the most repulsive creature I've ever encountered. I hate her with a passion you could only imagine, yet my angst would pale into insignificance compared with those of the mining communities of the 80's.

 

The bottom line is this, it is the right (if not, with the exception of servicemen/women, it should be) of every working man or woman to withdraw his or her labour if that is the only course of action available to them in order to get a fair deal from their employers.

 

Please don't say if they don't like it they should leave, that would be too simplistic. Also I am not so naive as not to realise that some Union leaders have communistic/socialist agendas, and that to them their members are just pawns!

[MbrunoB]

If you think the strikes now are bad just wait til 2011 and 2012 when the greedy twats will be demanding a hefty rise or they will bring disruption during the Olympics. This is one of the reasons that any right minded person would have objected to staging the jolly for politicians along with the rising costs of it all.

[BOROMAN]

Originally Posted By: Hookey

What?

Boroman, I don't know the ins and outs of this particular dispute so I can't comment, but no one goes on strike lightly.

You mention "Maggie" in an affectionate term but I think she is the most repulsive creature I've ever encountered. I hate her with a passion you could only imagine, yet my angst would pale into insignificance compared with those of the mining communities of the 80's.

The bottom line is this, it is the right (if not, with the exception of servicemen/women, it should be) of every working man or woman to withdraw his or her labour if that is the only course of action available to them in order to get a fair deal from their employers.

Please don't say if they don't like it they should leave, that would be too simplistic. Also I am not so naive as not to realise that some Union leaders have communistic/socialist agendas, and that to them their members are just pawns!

Blimey....... spoken like a true Basildon socialist.

[Hookey]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

BTW I'm from Bethnal Green and live in Pitsea but yeah, a deffo pinko lefty Socialist. A bit like these guys, bloody layabout scroungers!!!

 

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

Hookey you are a looney.... Boroman has a very valid point, it's not the 70's

 

These days there are very different employment laws that are not just in favour of the employer.

 

If things are done correctly there isn't actually an employment requirement to be part of a union, more just that some folk can't think for one!

 

I quite like ASLEF's stance on the whole thing.... 'a strike is the last option, not the first' and it works for them.

 

I'll give a tenner to anyone who gives bob a shiner!

[Eastside Urchin]

The strike is ridiculous,actually alienates more people than getting them on side.

To do it when a match at wmbley for england is being played is stupid.

Should FIFA suddenly decide that our bid for 2018 would not be a worthy one because of last nights strike then the strikers and their union leaders would look like complete idiots.

If that game had of been called off last night,fifa may well of took this action,and there was talk on tuesday of the game being cancelled for safety reasons

[Hookey]

Westy, You need to read my post again you div.

 

I haven't defended the tube strike as I've said I don't know the reason for it. But to say no one should be allowed to strike and to hold up Thatcher as the defeater of unions pissed me off.

 

Your comment "a strike is the last option, not the first" was spot on. Did I not say that people do not strike lightly.

 

Furthermore, as Bob Crow is a Millwall fan, I'll add a tenner to your tenner.

[Big J R]

If the computers drive them, then let the computers drive them and get rid of all the drivers.

 

Therefore less wages costs.

 

Therefore cheaper fares.

 

YEAH RIGHT ! IN YER DREAMS !!

 

It's all because of the failure of Metronet !

[arena boy]

If Neil Harris of Millwall had been picked for England on Wednesday Bob Crow would have called the tube strike off