Power to Mick Lynch

Tom_ed1987 said:
BBC are running a story this morning essentially saying that the strikes had **** all impact:

www.bbc.co.uk

Train strikes: Why haven't they caused more disruption?

The post-pandemic shift to working from home means disruption caused by the strikes has been more limited.
www.bbc.co.uk

So what now?
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Unfortunately after the pandemic a lot of companies have the ability to work from home, so that's what the majority of staff that could did.

I've got a nasty suspicion that this has just painted a big target on the back of the workers, a bit like what we saw at fast food place's where they strikes for higher wages and got replaced by machines at point of sale.

The union should have tried to get additional training for additional roles, make these guys and girls irraplaceable. So then they can either leave a d go other places or for the company's to up their wages.

I can see train stations becoming more and more automated and the number of staff reduced and the less important jobs offshored to agency staff.
 
Abraxaz1 said:
Unfortunately after the pandemic a lot of companies have the ability to work from home, so that's what the majority of staff that could did.

I've got a nasty suspicion that this has just painted a big target on the back of the workers, a bit like what we saw at fast food place's where they strikes for higher wages and got replaced by machines at point of sale.

The union should have tried to get additional training for additional roles, make these guys and girls irraplaceable. So then they can either leave a d go other places or for the company's to up their wages.

I can see train stations becoming more and more automated and the number of staff reduced and the less important jobs offshored to agency staff.
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"Unfortunately"?
 
There seems to be a massive amount of misinformation going around about these strikes and as with everything these days its massively sensationalised and cut down political lines. It really shouldn't be that hard to set out simple facts and yet this has turned into a massive mess.
 
fez said:
There seems to be a massive amount of misinformation going around about these strikes and as with everything these days its massively sensationalised and cut down political lines. It really shouldn't be that hard to set out simple facts and yet this has turned into a massive mess.
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The simple fact is that they are in the same position as most people in society right now but they've decided enough is enough. That's why the media aren't getting their way with this, it's why they have a decent level of public empathy/support and it's why Boris Johnson won't get the Thatcher moment he thought he would with this.

It's also why Mick Lynch is turning into a bit of a social media celebrity.
 
fez said:
There seems to be a massive amount of misinformation going around about these strikes and as with everything these days its massively sensationalised and cut down political lines. It really shouldn't be that hard to set out simple facts and yet this has turned into a massive mess.
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Another clear example of media bias. Who’s side are they actually on because it seems to be very one sided in the favour of the Government/Big business.

George Carlin was spot on when he said
Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.
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Dirk Diggler said:
The simple fact is that they are in the same position as most people in society right now but they've decided enough is enough. That's why the media aren't getting their way with this, it's why they have a decent level of public empathy/support and it's why Boris Johnson won't get the Thatcher moment he thought he would with this.

It's also why Mick Lynch is turning into a bit of a social media celebrity.
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He does indeed seem to be finding his level in society :)
 

Nice, I'll just take that all at face value then, /r/Labour is basically just a Jeremy Corbyn fan club/Hammer and Sickle sub.
 
Roar87 said:
Nice, I'll just take that all at face value then, /r/Labour is basically just a Jeremy Corbyn fan club/Hammer and Sickle sub.
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LOL yup, I note the redundancies are voluntary redundancies and they've had 5000 volunteers:

www.telegraph.co.uk

Rail workers inundate voluntary redundancy scheme – despite strikes over job cuts

More than 5,000 applications to quit cast doubt over rationale behind summer travel chaos
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk

The shift pay argument seems fair enough if that's true, the stuff about new roles is suspect, I suspect individuals aren't getting their/ grades downgraded but rather new staff will be.

If you've automated a ticket office etc.. but pledged not to lay people off (save for voluntary redundancies) then you'll have to find other roles for people. I suspect that going forwards, with modernisation, some roles/pay grades won't be needed.

It just seems like a mix, some of it is reasonable grievances some of it is a bunch of Luddites contributing to inefficiency.
 
dLockers said:
lol, which bit of the text is incorrect? Or is the fact it came from a post on Reddit enough to make you froth?
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I'm stating a fact, the majority of people on subs like that are below 30, a lot below 24, most of them are supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, and if you asked them their politically ideology it would be pretty far left in all regards. I have been on these sub-Reddits.
 
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