#RailStrikes
Sneering presenters got schooled by Mick #Lynch… again
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2023/06/08/sneering-presenters-got-schooled-by-mick-lynch-again/
[RMT's} Mick Lynch Is SCHOOLING The Media Again
"Transport itself is a liberation vehicle. It liberates working-class communities. If it’s cheap, affordable, safe, well-scheduled, and all the rest of it, you certainly get an uplift....The Tories just want to cut it to the bone because they’re not interested in it. They don’t use it; it’s not in their communities. Their people are driving around in Range Rovers"
Good interview with Mick Lynch of the RMT in #Tribune
#RailStrikes #Railways #UKPolitics #MickLynch #RMT
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/06/mick-lynch-this-is-a-battle-for-the-future-of-the-railway
Mick Lynch: ‘This Is a Battle for the Future of the Railway’
Mick #Lynch sits down with #Tribune to discuss the latest #railstrikes, how the government is scuppering negotiations – and why rail workers are prepared to keep on fighting.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/06/mick-lynch-this-is-a-battle-for-the-future-of-the-railway/
"German rail workers announce nationwide 50-hour strike starting this Sunday"
Think of it as an extended Ruhezeit, or four-day weekend.
Pledge number 4 from the CONservatives is to make NHS waiting lists fall and provide the care that people need.
Their "promise" in December 22 didn't even last 6 MONTHS before they reneged on it.
OK -sure, so I wonder how THAT is going to happen if the CONservatives are cutting £250 MILLION from #SocialCare funding and recruitment. #ToryFascistDictatorship caused the
#NursesStrikes
#RailStrikes
#RawSewage dumped
So many #BrexitBenefits
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/17/government-to-cut-250m-from-social-care-workforce-funding-in-england-report-says
RMT members have voted to accept the latest pay offer. Key features of the offer include an uplift on salaries of between 14.4 per cent for the lowest paid grades to 9.2 per cent for the highest paid.
It also included a total uplift on basic earnings between 15.2 per cent for the lowest paid grades to 10.3 per cent for the highest paid grades.
Strikes work. I hope #NHS workers take heart from this and reject the govt's insulting offer.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-end-train-strikes-sight-29504552
Very glad that my colleague @SamGoodman22 was able to speak on behalf of @hk_watch at today's London rally for #HongKong #47Democrats #FreeHKPoliticalPrisoners I would have been there had it not been for #RailStrikes which left me unable to get there - but am with #HK in spirit https://nitter.hongkongers.net/benedictrogers/status/1637135973858287618#m
Rail strikes: TSSA settles for 9% pay rise, putting pressure on RMT | The Independent
#TSSA
#RailStrikes
#Lynch
#RMT
#RailDeliveryGroup
#RDG https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/rail-tssa-union-rmt-aslef-b2289108.html
“Rail workers need to take the dispute out of the hands of the RMT executive which is strangling it. Rank-and-file committees must be established to determine the course of action and draw up demands for a pay rise and defence of terms and conditions against the restructuring and re-privatisation agenda.”
Rail strikes could last until 2026, union chief warns | Morning Star
#RailStrikes
#Strikes
#StrikesUK
#Aslef
#AslefUnion
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/s/rail-strikes-could-last-until-2026-union-chief-warns
>Aslef members return to pickets for a series of 24-hour strikes
Following up our thread from last week about the 1983 CPBF programme 'Why Their News Is Bad News', we've written up a longer blog of highlights from the programme. Fascinating parallels to #BBC coverage of current #railstrikes!
https://bettermedia.uk/2023/02/02/why-their-news-is-bad-news-cpbf-programme-from-1983/
"Education is in crisis" in the UK.
After 13 years of #Tory misrule, can anyone name a public service that ISN'T in crisis?
A friend suggested "the BBC", but while that may not currently have a funding crisis, it has plenty of problems created over the last 13 years.
#teacherstrike
#nursesstrike
#RailStrikes
#universitystrike
#civilservicestrike
A warning for anybody travelling to #FOSDEM by rail from the UK in two weeks time. There are rail strikes planned for Wednesday 1st Feb and Friday 3rd Feb. Friday is the day most of us will be travelling.
The #Eurostar is running on both those days, but it might be difficult to get to London by rail.
One option is to take the train to London on Thursday 2nd Feb, stay in a hotel overnight, then Eurostar to Brussels on Friday.
#RailStrikes cost UK £1bn and settling would have been cheaper, minister admits - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/18/rail-strikes-cost-uk-1bn-and-settling-would-have-been-cheaper-minister-admits
This poll from Opinium is not good news for the Tories and Sunak.
I was so impressed with Mick Lynch, Frank Ward and Mick Whelan at the Select Committee yesterday. If only we had the quality of these people as MP's. If only. #RailStrikes #Unions #MP's #ToriesDestroyingOurCountry #SelectCommittee #ParliamentTV #Fediverse #Mastodon
As reported by Adam Bychawski for CentralBylines (reposting from their @bylines.social instance) https://centralbylines.co.uk/rail-firm-paid-shareholders-500m-before-asking-workers-to-take-wage-cut/
"Rail firm paid shareholders £500m before asking workers to take wage cut.
CEOs of the six biggest train companies took home a combined salary of more than £5m in 2020"
Basically shareholders and management made good, asked workers to suck up a pay cut and unsafe working conditions to keep it going.
Rail firm paid shareholders £500m before asking workers to take wage cut
CEOs of the six biggest train companies took home a combined salary of more than £5m in 2020
Adam Bychawski @CentralBylines
Trying to plan #train travel to UK in February (because #FlyingLess).
Anyone have any idea if #RMT #RailStrikes have been scheduled for February yet and where I might find information - not getting much on a #FWSE?
Also #UKBorderForce strikes? Any further details?
Fully vaccinated against everything so hoping to avoid encounter with #UKNursesStrike... 😬
#UKstrike #UKStrikes #UKRailStrike #UKBorder #UKBorderStrike
Sunak must seize the opportunity to break the unions forever
#Politics #politicsuk #RailStrikes . Is #HMG pulling back from #Standoff with the #Unions ?
You all know where I stand. #Solidarity #ToriesOut #RejoinEU ✊💖🇪🇺 xxPalky
British Trains: Did Privatisation Cause the Current Chaos?
The fundamental problem in Britain today isn’t strikes, it’s an economy that makes strikes necessary – record numbers are seeking help from Trussell Trust food banks..” #RishiSunak #r4today #NursesStrike #AmbulanceStrikes #RailStrikes https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/06/rishi-sunak-anti-strike-legislation-britain-economy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Good news #ScotRail to run extra services. #Railstrikes #Scotland #TheNational
We need a rail service for the many, not the few (shareholders). Driver only trains aren’t safe for drivers or passengers & aren’t accessible for many with disabilities.
We need a nationalised rail service with subsidised fares to make rail travel affordable for all to reduce car use.
We need a government which is proactive for the #ManyNotTheFew & to reduce #CO2Emissions
#PassengerSafety #DisabilityRights #RailStrikes #ClimateChange
RMT’s Mick Lynch slams Tory minister for lying and insists government torpedoed a deal to prevent rail strikes
Rail workers cannot stand aside as the RMT, the government and the employers finalise a rotten deal. The blocking of unified action by the rail unions must be opposed and the struggle taken out of their hands.
UK rail workers resume strikes as Network Rail declares sell-out deal within “touching distance” - World Socialist Web Site
Train strikes: Rail union leader Mick Lynch claims No 10 lying on first day of New Year walkout.
#SameOldTories #RailStrikes
#Solidarity with all the rail workers striking this week for an inflation proof pay rise and against rail operators' proposals to make our railways unsafe in their quest for profit.
#RailStrikes #RMT #ASLEF #UKPolitics
The union leaders are terrified that support for nurses and ambulance workers could galvanise millions who see in the attacks on NHS workers a link between the fight to defend public health and their own struggle to defend their livelihoods.
UK trade union bureaucracy tries to sabotage mounting strike wave
January 2023 strike dates: When trains, nurses and buses are striking and if there are more Royal Mail strikes
"Many of those taking action today are fighting not only for increased wages, but to save their industries, just as the miners did in 1984 and 1985. The constant cuts to our NHS and the privatisation by stealth of our health services represents a threat to its existence and to the nation’s health"
#Solidarity with all UK key workers on strike today.
#UKStrikes #UKPolitics #Strikes #KeyWorkers #RailStrikes #NursesStrikes #PostalStrikes #RoyalMail #NHS
At the #RoundHouse #union workers brave the cold to #protest STRIKE BREAKING and the contract [written by Rail CEOs] forced on them by #Congress.
Labor deserve better then what congress gave them.
#RailStrikes #RailStrike #strike #labor #santafe #NewMexico #SupportRailWorkers
📞"You know who's at fault for these train strikes? It's Jeremy Corbyn! He's trying to take us back to the 1970s!"
🎙️"I thought you wanted us back in the 1970s?"
📞"I did, but not this part😡"
Colin from Portsmouth is fuming over the train strikes, despite not being affected.
I see the #BBC #news site is bending over backwards to paint the #railstrikes (and #MickLynch) in the worst light possible, up to and including accusing Lynch of being a latter #Grinch.
Look at the language used, which emphasises the disruption and 'militancy' of the strikes, while downplaying the context and reasons behind it. The Beeb is funded by the public, and I would argue that is a good thing, but it takes them for fools
"His master's voice", as ever.
"The RMT general secretary told a press conference on Thursday: “This negotiation and this dispute is one of the most corrupt set-ups you will ever see in corporate life in Britain.”
Railway companies “will not settle, cannot settle and have got no motivation to settle because they’re not losing any money” because the government is indemnifying them against losses of revenue, with taxpayers’ money."
#RMT #RailStrikes #UKPolitics #MickLynch
@rbreich it’s infuriating. #profiteers #RailStrikes
@Haggis Mick Lynch for PM, I say! #RailStrikes #RMT
#RMT have anounced more #RailStrikes in the run up to Christmas. Massively inconvenient for me: I'm going to miss a football match, have fewer days with my family. Am I angry with the #union? Not at all! I'm angry with this bloody government, with the indignity of their silence. #Solidarity with all striking workers! Victory to the RMT!
#SteveBell on the #Tory approach to #RailStrikes – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian
#UK #Politics #Satire #LizTruss #GrantShapps #RishiSunak #MargaretThatcher #RMT