A Good Idea?

[youngmafbog]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tube-strikes-february-2014-mayor-boris-johnson-says-union-boss-bob-crow-is-holding-london-to-ransom-9103398.html

Strikes start today, Crow is on a beach in Rio on a 10K holiday. Now, as Boris says, he is entitled to his holiday but does it really send the right message?

i wonder if Milliband approves of this, must gain him some votes from Middle England; not.

[DrFilth]

thanks for that hymie i have one for trains not the underground, i think they could push for paid breaks

> Max 10 hr Day: 8.5 hrs (unpaid breaks)

[Hymie]

My heart bleeds for them.

[237SJ]

Hymie - would your heart have bled for them if you realised your dream of being a train driver? I think not.

[FredPuli43]

Boris explains his saying that ticket offices would not be closed . He said on the news that that was then and this is now. Well he actually said that 6 years ago, even 4 years ago, the technology was not such as to render them unnecessary. He referred to modern iPhones , contactless payments etc

[emmie]

the sooner we have driverless tube trains the better. some have no idea of the flipping chaos these strikes cause, if it was just the tube shut down then you can get round it, but it clogs up the buses, clogs up the roads, and companies lose many millions because their staff either can't get in or spend most of the day trying. They should also have a ballot of more than 50 percent for strike action, because 30 percent or just over isn't an a majority, it just gives the rest days off, with pay presumably. whilst the rest of us have to suffer, it's not as though the tube workers, particularly the train drivers are underpaid.

[solvitquick]

So a legal strike ballot is held and some don't like the result, hence change the rules? Typical Boris antidemocratic nonsense.
Well said jake-the-peg. Actuallly the bankers would leave tomorrow for even more money but no other country would employ them at a tenth of their pay and bonuses. So much for the "pay them zillions" argument.
Arthur Scargill was right about the list of pits for closure but the grocer's daughter and her string-pullers lied at the time (Cabinet Papers revealed this recently). If those deep-mined coalpits were active in US, India or China today they would be exploiting them to the full and making billions.
Peter Pedant: "us Anglo Saxons odd..." Too true!
I believe in a mixed economy but let's face it we are bloody awful capitalists (short term profits on any investment, no faith in British brains and skill at the real workface nor in our future entrepreneurs and back to the main point - reluctant to pay our key employees a fair day's pay for a fair day's work). Pure greed is bum calitalism.
If Boris and Old-Jim are against, then paying the train drivers must be right
Very well argued jno, Quizmonster, DrF, 237SJ etc.
SIQ.