What the f*** do the RMT think they are playing at.....

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So, the RMT are striking for a pay increase....during GCSE's. The poor kids who use the train to get to school are going to be left up the creek without a paddle, but no, a £44k average salary is not enough and they have decided to hold the country to ransom for more money.

There are 4 (possibly more) GCSE's being held next week and probably many a-levels too, schools are already warning that if pupils are late the exams will have to start regardless.

They cancelled trains that got kids to school during the pandemic, they are paid above average.

I would actually like to see the RMT fail, and be called out, on this one, AIBU? They are a disgrace.

I am a union supporter generally, but this is greedy in the extreme and smacks of extortion to line their members pockets at the expense of the general public. Higher wages = higher fares.

Here's a thought. Maybe the employers could engage in some sensible and constructive negotiations with the unions so that no strike is necessary?

They are holding the country, all workers and just about everyone, to ransom. People will miss hospital appointments, funerals, exams, interviews, just about everything. The roads will be chaos with people who usually travel by train. People will die in the back of ambulances waiting in traffic queues (rather than waiting because hospitals are full). It's outrageous.

They didn’t have to hold their strike in the run up to GCSEs. So no you are not being unreasonable

Full support from me - call out the hedge funds, the oligarchs, the tories who are looting out societies and enriching themselves whilst the world burns. Look up not down or across and see who the real villains are.

And they need to consider that more and more people are starting to want to WFH whenever possible. If they aren’t careful then this could backfire on them massively.

Which RMT staff earn £45k - the cleaners?

They didn’t have to hold their strike in the run up to GCSEs. So no you are not being unreasonable

There will always be a week that's not good for some.

And I still maintain there isn't that many children who catch train to school.

Let them crack on. It won’t ultimately buy them public support. I’m sure ultimately drivers will be replaced by machines in my living memory. Machines aren’t greedy and entitled.

See other threads! There are so many good posts on threads started just like this.

The police aren't allowed to strike, no-one seems to have a problem with that.

Other Alpha World Cities have automated Trains so I don't see why London can't.

The RMT are stuck in the 70s with On the Buses and Blakey etc.

I agree with this. The current year 11s and 13s have had such a tough time. Why can't they wait a few weeks?

Everything will be machines in the future including a lot of middle-class jobs whilst the proles fight amongst each other for scraps of the rich person's tables and 'other' those that want to fight for their rights. It's no coincidence that the Daily Mail is pushing a flood of Royalist bilge down our throats currently whilst demonising sections of the organised working class. Incidentally, the Rothermere's - owner of the Daily Hate and 'great patriots' offshore most of their money.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Harmsworth,_4th_Viscount_Rothermere#:~:text=He%20has%20non%2Ddomicile%20(non,father%20had%20lived%20in%20France.

Who maintains the lines? Programs the computer? Cleans the train?

Just take responsibility for your own kid. The RMT didn’t decide to conceive your child - you did!

Oh grow up.

Strikes are meant to cause inconvenience. There's no point to them otherwise.

It's about time all workers being shafted by their employers and this government went out on strike as far as I'm concerned.

Or OP could grow up and stop whining!

"Who maintains the lines?"
Robots
"Programs the computer?"
Other computers
"Cleans the train?"
More robots

^this

strikes are supposed to be disruptive when the employer doesn’t listen.

the unions were destroyed and look at the state of workers rights now. Shit pensions, overworked and under paid.

Strikes make an impact when they disrupt, rightly or wrongly ...

I'm still a member of Unison even though I'm self employed now. I'll gladly give up a day's pay and march on a nationwide day of action in support of the strike if one is called.

The union scum are an absolute disgrace!

Please, for the love of God, can we stop with the 'earning 44k' bollocks that has been debunked by anyone with a brain and without an agenda. Jesus the level of maths literacy and reading comprehension in this country, along with our critical thinking, actually makes me despair.

That figure includes train drivers, who earn a great salary but crucially are mostly not part of the striking union and also are an anomaly amongst the huge numbers of much lower paid staff doing jobs on the railways.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

the only ones who benefit are the bosses who take in the coins.

Agreed.