www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-26043372

Remember, who to blame ! -

www.kingofhits.co.uk/index.php?option=co...limitstart=20#110201

The bosses are to blame, workers are fighting for their jobs.

Up the workers.

London is raining AND there's a Tube strike. Don't you just wish you lived in Cornwall?

I hate using the tube at the best of times. My commiserations to anyone stuck in London today.

JK2006 wrote:
Don't you just wish you lived in Cornwall?

Oh, the irony !

Cornwall is a historic "kingdom" and the locals make much of their traditions and history (they even considered "independence" once !)

BUT ... as soon as the rail line goes down they panic, and demand that we "reconnect" them asap !!!!

(perhaps there is a moral for the Scots somewhere in there?)

I do believe vital services should have a no strike rule.
Should they all decide to resign on mass then perhaps....

Pattaya wrote:
I do believe vital services should have a no strike rule.
Should they all decide to resign on mass then perhaps....

well, if they resign - brilliant !
No redundancy !

Strike action is good, shame people are not allowed to strike in sympathy no more.

andrew wrote:
Strike action is good, shame people are not allowed to strike in sympathy no more.

Very Union / Labour !

How many more of these lame duck / dead dog causes are we to support?
(being Labour I dont suppose a single thought has been given to who pays for it !)

David Cameron made it clear at PMQs, that ONLY 3% of ticket sales are now through ticket offices.

The people who matter - the customers ! - have found alternative ways - online sales / smart phones / direct debit etc to buy their tickets.

The people are not being made redundant - they are being offered alternative jobs (but as I dont expect any of them have any real qualifications, thats likely to platform sweeping I think).

Anything other "dead ducks" you would like us to keep going?

Penny Farthing bicycle manufacturers for example?

andrew wrote:
Strike action is good, shame people are not allowed to strike in sympathy no more.

It isn't good when there is a strike every week and no basic services like in the seventies.

In The Know (as always) wrote:
[quote]andrew wrote:


Penny Farthing bicycle manufacturers for example?

If it's good enough for Norman Tebbit's Dad

Why should people demoted ?

andrew wrote:
Why should people demoted ?

Sometimes its their own stupid fault.
At the station in town years ago they put automatic ticket barriers in "to see if they caught on" and kept the staff on.
Most of us tried to use the people instead but they preferred to sit reading the paper and took no notice when we pointed out that they were putting themselves out of a job because they had been told their positions were safe.
They thought it was really cushy.
Needless to say, only the machines are there now and the staff are on the dole.

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Sometimes its their own stupid fault.
At the station in town years ago they put automatic ticket barriers in "to see if they caught on" and kept the staff on.
Most of us tried to use the people instead but they preferred to sit reading the paper and took no notice when we pointed out that they were putting themselves out of a job because they had been told their positions were safe.
They thought it was really cushy.
Needless to say, only the machines are there now and the staff are on the dole.

Ah, but - just like the Miners - they will be able to sit around for the next 40 years telling people how their jobs were "stolen" (it will be the "evil" Boris this time, instead of the "evil" Maggie !) - and never do a single thing to improve their situation or make themselves employable !

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
andrew wrote:
Why should people demoted ?

Sometimes its their own stupid fault.
At the station in town years ago they put automatic ticket barriers in "to see if they caught on" and kept the staff on.
Most of us tried to use the people instead but they preferred to sit reading the paper and took no notice when we pointed out that they were putting themselves out of a job because they had been told their positions were safe.
They thought it was really cushy.
Needless to say, only the machines are there now and the staff are on the dole.

Remember Bus Conductors?
ITK would be 'Blakey'

Pattaya wrote:
Remember Bus Conductors?


..... or the man who had to walk in front of a car waving a red flag? (very appropriate !)

In The Know wrote:
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Sometimes its their own stupid fault.
At the station in town years ago they put automatic ticket barriers in "to see if they caught on" and kept the staff on.
Most of us tried to use the people instead but they preferred to sit reading the paper and took no notice when we pointed out that they were putting themselves out of a job because they had been told their positions were safe.
They thought it was really cushy.
Needless to say, only the machines are there now and the staff are on the dole.

Ah, but - just like the Miners - they will be able to sit around for the next 40 years telling people how their jobs were "stolen" (it will be the "evil" Boris this time, instead of the "evil" Maggie !) - and never do a single thing to improve their situation or make themselves employable !

What bollocks you talk ITK.