I know some commute daily but some will also be hoping to visit/be visited by relies or even kids returning home from uni/overseas by train It looks to be effecting SWR who are running services to and from London Waterloo from Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Surrey and Berkshire. The strike dates given are between December 2 to 11, December 13 to 24, and December 27 to January 1 So if you or anyone you know uses these routes on those dates, make sure you check in advance to see if the strike is still active or if it has been cancelled. https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-announces-27-days-of-strike-action-on-swr/ https://www.southwesternrailway.com/
SW trains bring about 80% of the 100's of people who work in the complex I work in. Some of them have resigned due to the past strikes and no one can take all these strike days as holiday.
Remember the last tube train driver strikes? For pay and conditions? I kind of lost sympathy when I learned some of pot addled fuckwits were earning 103K!!
Get used to it, if Comrade Corbyn and his General McDonald gets their way, this will be every week for some utility or similar, especially when he privatises everything The train company are acting like venture capitalist vultures: the train workers (and union) like 1920's mafia. Will never get resolved.
"especially when he (privatises) re-nationlises everything" The only way forward according to all the experts, if we are to have a Safe and reliable rail network in this country, but it will be at a cost we have to suck that one up comrade.
Apologies, I just couldn't bring myself, even subconsciously clearly, to really think of the consequence of all key services being handed into public ownership.
Some of the same people rabidly criticising renationalisation of the railway (a good idea if only to get rid of that uucoam Branson) are screaming about any private provision in the NHS.
We don't pay for the railways unless we use them (kind of). We pay billions for the NHS. Not everyone (like most don't) use the railway. Almost everyone at some point uses NHS. One is private owned and would nee dot be purchased back costing millions. The other isn't. Not sure you can compare the two. Unless the govt also want to buy my car and let me use on a cost per mile basis...
i think every seat is subsidised. i think the infrostructure, tracks ect are still state owned. you're still paying one way or another.
£450 return manchester to London And that absolute w@nker Branson is now a tax exile, having wrapped himself in the butchers apron for years as overt patriotism seemed good for business
400 mile round trip, sounds like an absolute bargain if you compare to cost of fuel, congestion charge, ULEZ charge and parking - not...…
At least if they do strike, I won't have the whole damn family descending on us for yet another Christmas, when I would really like a nice quiet time on our own...... ......and for once I won't have to get that mile long bit of string out so we can compulsorily hang bloody cards up everywhere. Pah, humbug!
