Plashet Grove Pete wrote: ↑Wed Jun 22, 2022 3:42 pm
Yeah, nothing to do with the RMT the innocent little scamps.
So misunderstood - still, there's alway an apologist to defend their objectionable behaviour.
Turn it in mate. This isn't drivers, it's the day to day public facing minions that are not particularly well paid, and they're being shafted by their employers.
I challenge you to call me an apologist when a multi-million quid profit making organisation are butt-****ing their staff and trying to erode their pensions, pay, working rights, and work/life balance.
You up there on your high - horse, you count yourself lucky that you must be in a job where your employer isn't trying to shaft you.
I generally never stick up for rail strikers, especially when it is drivers - but on this occasion, you're someone else that's been taken in by the press, and the **** memes on social media claiming this strike is about drivers on 70k a year - it's not. It's those down at the very bottom. if you are happy to see them shatted on from a great height, and call people apologists for defending them using their right to take industrial action, then that makes you a bit of a twunt.
What IS objectionable, are people like you that are happy to see a race to the bottom.
We're out on strike in August, because like these workers, we're about to be shafted. I'll be there standing on the picket line showing solidarity with my colleagues so we can all have an acceptable wage, acceptable conditions, and not have the stuff we already have, eroded away whilst we're trying to make an honest living supporting our families in tough times - whilst also carrying the responsibility of carrying your families from point a to point b in safety.
When your cargo is the most precious in the world - people, the people with that responsibility should be remunerated accordingly - and for years, they haven't been, and the worm is turning - and whilst we're fighting our fight, we'll stand shoulder to shoulder with the railway workers - not train drivers, not managers, but the boots on the floor workers.
If you've got an issue with that, that's your problem, and with respect, tough ****.