Barristers End Strike After Accepting Offer

[FatticusInch]

So back to work after being offered 15%?

https://news.sky.com/story/criminal-barristers-vote-to-end-strike-after-accepting-government-pay-offer-12717193

Strange how the government can speak to one section of disgruntled workers but not others?

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[davebro]

Why are these apples different from those oranges? It ain't fair, I'm gonna complain to the management!

[mushroom25]

i don't know about health workers, but the disputes on the railway could drag on for months. a separate dispute at Transpennine Express has been ongoing for more than a year, giving you a flavour of what might be to come. simple fact is, the railways aren't as necessary as they were (or appeared to be) before covid, working from home now accepted by many employers as part of a move to hybrid working. ASLEF caught on to this and plan their strikes for saturdays, but it's easy for all the footie fans to make alternative plans. so the train companies and Network Rail can just dig in and wait for the unions to blink.

[Zacs-Master]

‘so the train companies and Network Rail can just dig in and wait for the unions to blink’

Do you mean wait or the Govt to blink? The unions are representing the train companies etc.

[davebro]

The real crunch will come when technology allows for driverless trains (which is probably already possible).

[Zacs-Master]

Nurses have been given a 4% pay rise earlier this year. As has been pointed out in many other threads, Nurses receive a fairly good rate of pay. I would have thought the money required to raise barrister’s pay would be far less than that of nurses.

[FatticusInch]

It would, but again it’s all about where the government decides their priorities lie?
At least(as Lynch acknowledged) they’ve started speaking to the RMT union, unlike Shapps.
Why aren’t they doing so with nurses? Seems an odd stance to take given their numbers in comparison to barristers, rail workers etc?
Or is it another sign of a dysfunctional administration?

[Zacs-Master]

I would imagine they’re not doing it with nurses as they’ve already given them a rise plus any negotiations are pointless until the results of the RCN ballot is know (some time early November).

[mushroom25]

// The real crunch will come when technology allows for driverless trains (which is probably already possible). //

yep, it's possible. but, it works best when all the trains run at the same speed, and have the same stopping pattern. it works great on metro lines, but is in the "too difficult" box - at the moment - on the grown-up railway, where there are fast and slow passenger trains with an almost infinite variation of stopping patterns, and freight trains running at a range of speeds between 60 and 95.