Rail strike: Rail workers walk out over pay dispute, as train drivers announce new strike
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2022
- As a fourth day of strikes by members of the RMT brought many rail services to a halt, there was news of more disruption next month with the announcement from Aslef that train drivers at nine companies will stage a one-day strike on 13 August. (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
Passengers today were advised not to travel because only around one in five trains were running - and in some areas no trains at all.
The Transport Secretary Grant Shapps floated the idea of new measures to curb industrial action, but his suggestions provoked fury from union leaders.
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Solidarity with the workers, in the railways and across the whole economy.
The solution to the cost of living crisis is lower profits and higher wages.
100 %. It's time to stand together
Billions paid to the fat cat's, and shareholders! The worker's overworked and underpaid. That's the Tories for you.
@@paulfairbairn1066
Indeed. That capitalism for you.
@@pithikoulis
Wrong.
Higher ticket prices are part of government rules on how the train industry works. They go up by RPI every year - 11%.
And then they want to give workers a pay rise of 4%, and of course, trouser the difference.
@@paulfairbairn1066 Go and buy shares yourself if you think that they get such a great deal.
Solidarity with rail workers and fair play on unions
Watching the UK descend into ruins is quite interesting.
@@Lemonboy132. Would you prefer the tories race to the bottom?
100%. All stand together
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Now I'm late to work because some people who literally only stop and start a train want higher wages??
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Solidarity with the RMT and all underpaid workers.
they are paid £66k a year plus double pay overtime
@@boredphysicist Yeah sure. Every cleaner, caterer, signaller and electrician working for the railways is on £66k right? Are you ok? Most of the RMT members earn less than 30k. And the dispute is not only over pay.
@@boredphysicist. Have the decency to research your claims, that way you not make such ignorant, erroneous comments.
@@boredphysicist Double pay on Sundays stopped 20 years ago. Do you pluck things out of fresh air?
@@thomasc5443 I drove a train for 33 years. Never earnt 66k ever.
I wonder how long it took them to find selfish people moaning about strikes for them to push their narrative. Solidarity with rail workers and fair play on unions
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Or they were planned
Really nauseating
They legally cant do that and rail workers (not talking abt the other unions) are overstaffed and overpayed, a train driver makes £66k plus overtime and bonuses
@@basilmagnanimous7011 Not you sticking up for the billionaires. The greed is so out of control, people are STRUGGLING to live whilst the CEOS boast about record breaking profits.
We're experiencing a cost of living CRISIS that is going to get worse come winter, stuck in the middle of brexit, feeling effects of the Ukraine war, on the brink of another recession, our government is ridden with out of touch rich boys. We NEED change, Change only happens with disruption. Change only happens with disruption.
Solidarity for the workers. Good for them
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@@basilmagnanimous7011 I agree, throw your degree away when you don't get paid appropriately for your work. Throw your future and those of your dependents away, because CEOs need to be paid millions. I agree, makes total sense to freely enslave yourself by your overlords.
Definitely communist.
How do you know they are underpaid?
60k plus there salary I'm band 6 nurse with 43k per year...yeaas sure they are so underpay
@@king489. You have such a poor command of the English language I wouldn’t trust you to read a menu let alone a prescription.
Good. Hold their feet to the fire, get every penny you're worth and not one less!
While Kier starmer shows what a poor choice he is for the Labour party sacking Sam shame on starmer he needs to be replaced he s shown he s not for the workers
I fully support the strikes, workers need a fair deal!
Then you don’t use london public transport
@@okiamyacine664 no, haha, I live in Norfolk, there's barely a bus where I am!
@@okiamyacine664 Corporate bootlickers like you always pretend during times like this that you're concerrned about low paid, non unionized workers not being able to get to their low paid jobs. The irony never fails to make me laugh.
There payment is 60k plus per year
@@king489 "Their" bad bot
Hi, it is not just pay, it is job security, maintaining working conditions and hours and a wage to keep pace with inflation.
The power of solidarity and community. I support the workers and their right to strike.
From where do you get the idea that anyone has a what you call a "right to strike"? - Is it some sort of tenet of some sort of religion?- What is a "right?
How exactly is a "right" defined?
You have not the faintest idea? - This you are about to illustrate by signally failing to define a right.
@@vhawk1951kl Rights are legal, social or principles based in law. You’re correct there is no specific “right” under a law act that empowers one to strike. However, there are statutory law protections (principles) for the organisers of these kinds of industrial actions (or strikes). As a last tool to negotiate, union members based on those principles in statutory law are protected and have the right to take industrial action (or strike) - it is this that I support.
@@ACsPianoCorner You see? You immediately fall into circularity and begging the question, that is why you cam up with what even you can see is empty waffle or meaningless blather.
@@vhawk1951kl pompous verbosity.
@@ACsPianoCorner well the salary is 60k plus pe year...
I am thankful for what my union in the Netherlands did when they negotiated our severance pay with my US employer when they decided to close down their presence in the Netherlands. We, the staff and the staff representatives, delegated our union to negotiate the terms. The union doesn't have to put every offer the employer makes up for voting. They only have to keep the staff representatives informed of the progress of the negotiation. I was so gratefull that I continued paying my monthly dues to the union for 12 years even after I left the Netherlands to work elsewhere.
As a Russian woman, I'm glad for the strikes 🤣
Labour should be dominating on this issue. They are the LABOUR party FFS. Instead Kier Starmer is running scared of Rupert Murdoch. He's a coward and a sell-out. 😡
Well done Sam Tarry ✊
Yes ,well said.
When will people open their eyes and realise the labour party are just as bad as the Torys. The grass isn't greener on either side
Baldy bonce is loving the attention.
I guess the problem is the last time they attempted to do that in 2019, the country basically ruined them for doing so, and Labour cannot afford to lose the next election. In many ways it’s unfortunately the result of an electorate who are determined to vote against their own interests, and Labour essentially only having one real attempt left to gain power. They seem too scared to do anything.
You need to think more strategically. If Labour win the next GE, how do they negotiate with the unions when the Transport Minister had been on same picket lines in the recent past?
When you suddenly realize that voting for Tories in power for 12+ years is a bad idea. Wait, but they are still in power: trust the Tories at your own peril.
Maybe if the shadow transport minister got involved......oh no wait, the Labour leader sacked him for joining the picket line 😂
Weve not voted for them since the 1950’s 🤷🏻
@@davebirch1976 whataboutery
@@toriesdontgettazered7464 "whataboutery" the usual reply from people who don't like to be told the truth that the Labour party are just as bad as the Tory party when it all boils down to it 😂
Hear, hear, hear !!!!
'Its about putting the users of this service first' I didn't hear them saying this when they made train travel more expensive then air travel. I didn't hear them saying this when they privatised the profit making areas and left the public to find the rail infrastructure. Disgraceful, shameful, lying government. Get rid of them ASAP.
The private firms who took over in Thatcher's era make a fortune in profits but pay for the workforce is rubbish and they now want to downgrade maintenance .Ticket sales , cleaners , guards , are paid a pittance for today .Drivers are the equal of pilots and have a huge responsibility .The Government has a nerve .they do not serve the public , get paid , have expenses , a second house Oh yes and a pay rise ..PS can we know the salary of the CEO of Network rail etc etc etc
@@HelenaMikas. 👍. Absolutely 100% spot on.
@@HelenaMikas Thatcher didn't privatise the railways. Do your research
If you wish to sell a particular commodity, is it not wisest to do your best to provide it in the most attritive manner that you possibly can?
It may be that it is not particularly attractive not to provide what you claim you are willing and able to provide, always supposing that anyone wants to buy the commodity that you are selling
John Major’s conservative government privatised the railways.
Solidarity with workers
Which in practice means chattering like a monkey on this does it not?
Yep
Good the strikers, well done! Now the rest of the country. Barb
The lack of empathy with some people who are clearly "alright Jack" and some who are also struggling, clearly highlights ignorance and selfishness. Imagine how they'd complain if the poor nurses or hospital staff went on strike.
You are merely saying that those to whom you refer are sinners are you not? - Why do you religious fanatics keep dragging religion and sin into it?
They ARE going on strike, the dates are yet to be announced but they have been balloted and have overwhelminly voted to strike. It will be the first strike of its kind in the NHS.
It will be interesting to see how all these ignorant people who say things like protests are blocking people getting to hospital (while ignoring the ambulance crisis and crumbilng nhs infrastructure) or complaining about rail workers getting better pay than NHS workers... I will be very interested to see how many of the support NHS workers striking for better pay and conditions... will they still be vocal about the hospitals and NHS staff then?
They should. About time we had a general strike. Nurses pay and conditions are nothing to do with rail workers. Looks like you've been gaslit Allan.
@@stephenjon3502 I never said that the nurses pay has anything to do with that of the rail workers Stephen, I don't know where this idiotic inference came from. A general strike might help for sure.
@@TheLegenDacster So why mention nurses then? You've just trotted out the same old nonsense like all the RW media have been talking about for years.
It's not about modernisation - we have more than enough to ensure best quality living. It's the distribution of wealth that's the problem.
Train drivers refuse to accept some of them being made redundant despite the fact they are redundant, modern rail doesnt need as many drivers but our push for modernisation has been hamstrung by greedy unions run by luddites
@@boredphysicist Strange comment considering a train won't run without a driver. Do you live on Mars?
@@stephenjon3502 actually a significant amount of trains could be run without drivers but the drivers unions force them to not, look at the Paris metro where multiple lines are driverless
@@boredphysicist That's France fella. Auto running has been on a few underground lines for years. You still need a driver for operational problems and defect handling. Driverless trains are probably about 30 years away.
The real issue is with retraining if people are no longer needed for these jobs how do we retrain them for new work? Wheres the investment? Maybe everything shouldn't be so cut throat when people are out of work for a while.
Solidarity with all rail workers
Railways back into public ownership. Starmer is part of the establishment. Revolution is required.
Hear, hear, hear !!!!
energy companies back in public ownership too! We live in a capitalist society these companies will always try to make as much profit as they can, while paying the least wage they can get away with
Water, electricity and gas.
@@lolazal1 and public transport...! Stop the pilfering bastards profiteering off our hard work.
Idiot
Are the MP’s getting a pay rise?
Up the workers✊
Ouch!
The trains have earned a fortune over the years packing us in like sardines in such a way that trains were never disign to run and they wouldn't have done their costing based on such a system.
Well done you guys. Fight for your RIGHTS. Let the Ministers who are having a huge salary & enjoying their wealth take notice of your hardship.
May God hear your appeals.
Yea, let those who DEPEND on your rail services also STAND UP WITH YOU & speak up for you guys.
RMT is working for Russia
Train drivers get paid around the same as MPs
@@stephenjon3502 look it up
Those that abuse capital letters emphasise nothing but the hysteria of the abuser.
What in blue blazes is a "right"?
Think your average unskilled train Worker is on roughly 40 grand per year.
Its not well done, they need to stop being greedy and get back into work..
Solidarity with real workers ✊
And your "solidarity" - which is no more than chattering like a monkey on this, takes what exact form? - Are you paying the wages that they are not earning?
Yeah, right.
You *talk* a good game but actually *do* nothing, is that not exactly correct?
The plain fact of the matter is that there is nothing that you can do nor are you prepared to do anything, is it not?
Exactly how many of those on strike do you know personally and with whom you are intimate and familiar in detail?
Yeah, right. You keep it as vague and sentimental as possible titch, that way you don't have to actually*Do*anything. Tee hee. It turns out that nobody can eat your religious mumbo-jumbo but that does not prevent you from indulging your taste for it.
Why do MPs get above inflation pay rises but not other public sector workers?
Why didn't Channel 4 ask the Chief Exec of Network Rail how much his salary is and how much of a pay increase he received?
Sky did
@@AzadAli-re2fz One channel. They all should be questioning how much they get paid. How much is paid out to investors. The people who get you from point a to point b shouldnt be the ones being shamed.
£588,000 salary.
This is the result of 10 years of cuts (in real terms).
Government own website:
"Around 40% of working-age adults in workless families were in *relative poverty* before housing costs in 2019/20"
"Around one in six people in the UK are in relative low income before housing costs (BHC), rising to around one in five once we account for housing costs (AHC)."
The Tories are thinking this is good, but we can do better!
I believe it is 1 in 5 in the EU so not to bad .
If Labour no longer supports Unions, it's no longer the Labour Party.
Hear, hear, hear !!!!
The RMT haven’t been affiliated to the Labour Party for about 10 years now, this shows you why, good on you Sam, shame on you Keir.
I thought Starmer's job was to support workers not fat cats.
If fairness and justice is to be achieved sadly there must be pain. If we lose this EVERYONE will suffer.
You mean everybody but the wealthy shareholders and CEOs.
go, workers. Lizzie is throwing oil on the fire. She is the biggest risk the UK has seen in a century.
Stand with the Unions.
Which if it were any more than empty talk or chattering like a monkey would consist of contributing £100 a week to the strike fund all the relevant union, would it not?
Yeah, right. Talk is cheap and boy do you talk titch.
yes
Against the unions
Solidarity with the strikers 👍 😊
Solidarity with the rail workers ✊
@@basilmagnanimous7011 You should get out more you sound like a right bootlicker 😉
take away right to strike, take away democracy ...
It will be delt with the same why the tried to stop protesting around parliament, instead of shouting you sing. Instead of striking you just do collective none production day, turn up and everyone doesn't do there job.
Yes of course :)
Solidarity to the workers, shame on the media.
General Strike incoming I reckon
@norman smithers. You’re right! Tony Blair tore up clause 4 years ago, now Starmer has tore up the whole Labour movement, shame on him.
@@johnmoore9862 unfortunately Labour isn't the party it once was. Corbin tried to bring it back and we all know what happened there....
@@drundub73 same mate, needs to be done now
@@redmozzy. Yes absolutely, we need a clear distinction between the two main parties. Unfortunately I don’t think Keir is the right person to take that forward. It’s time he nailed his colours to the mast. 👍. All the best.
Hainess is on 600k per annum plus bonus. He gave himself 6.5% increase last year
“And the train arriving at Platform number 10 is the gravy train to Easy Street.”
And the Palace of Westminster, the social club on the banks of the Thames.
@@chrissmith7655 free beer for the workers ✊🏼
Solidarity
I’m loving these comments. More people need to stand up for their rights and for a better life.
The public mood has shifted. People support the strike and the RMT, Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey are the most popular men in the country right now. Nobody wants Starmer Tory-lite.
When you can't feed your family or pay your bills, a sporting event pales into insignificance.
Solidarity with the rail workers 💪
A sporting event bring lots of tourists to the area, giving local businesses that are struggling during a crisis more income. That means more families fed well.
@norman smithers completely agree 👍
@norman smithers Spot on. Starmer needs to go.
i can assure you they can all fee their families. this is the far left holding the country to ransom. they failed in the 70s, they'll fail again now.
can't feed their families train drivers are on like 60k already lol they are just greedy
Power never exceeds to demands without a threat. Fight, fight, fight.
8% over 3 years, He really thinks that's acceptable in the present climate? Well his 600k salary really seems unpalatable by anyone with any sense of justice.
8% for who? Those on 60k? Or those on low wages which of course should be raised if they struggle
@@krob2327 Track workers 20-23k, platform staff 17.5k-27k, even trainee drivers are 23k, 38k after 1 year, 43k year 2, then 53k, The Elite Drivers may earn 60k on the big routes, many local drivers do not. Drivers do some of the most antisocial hours you could dream up, a sign on time of 04:30am, which means arising from sleep at 0330am. They have to witness suicidal people jumping infront of their train travelling at speeds of over 50mph, people think a train drivers job is easy and fun and doesn't deserve a salary of 60k. I certainly wouldn't work on a platform, risking getting my head caved in, Verbally abused, or spat on during covid, just because someones drunk to much and want's to fist someone because their train is 30 minutes late, Just not worth 17-23k.
@@handheldmerchant7671 wages have stagnated for sure. Look at us and the Eu vs the USA since the recession. They recovered we didn’t. I just don’t see how the Trains are going to be funded going forwards. They most likely won’t reach full capacity again so it will have to change. People are taking voluntary redundancy etc . I do understand the low wage issue. It’s a joke all across the economy.
@@krob2327 people need to stand up and be counted when the £500 million profit the railways made last year went straight to the shareholders and a £600,000 directors salary, not to mention the 130 billion the government are sinking into the HS2 black hole. Money is swilling around but not for a workers payrise.
Power to RMT and workers rights.
Enough is enough!!!!!
When senior managers and MPs show pay restraint I'll vote in favour of my pay offer as I did during covid in solidarity with those who weren't fortunate to have the job security and conditions I have. Until then I'll continue to encourage colleagues to use their collective position and refuse it. The only way forward from austerity and the wealth moving upwards is to say we won't accept trickle down BS and we want a bottom up approach.
Bottom up approach is never going to happen. It's just not the way the world works. The rich and powerful get to make the rules and the people at the bottom have to struggle to find the a way to survive. In the mean time, the solution for the rich is to pit people against each other. Devide and conquer.
@@adrianmargean3402 yes I agree mate I talk in an ideal world where we could make the change happen by some democratic means but unfortunately we don't live under a system which would allow it. It hasn't evolved far enough from the 17th century and instead of gentleman's sons representing us we now have the sons of corporations and the banks. We need some new levelers but that would take a revolution.
Solidarity with all workers. 👏
hate strikes but gotta say - I agree with what he is saying
Not a single comment from any interviewer or interviewee on whether rail workers should actually get a rise and that would be another good way to "put a stop" to this rather than finding new legislation to stamp out their right to protest and say how unfair it is on the public and the country and how selfish they're being etc... Not a word about the general disparity of wealth that is behind the whole thing.
All these stories are perfectly crafted to ignore the massive elephant in the room. Privitatisation in this country must've followed the Soviet way, it's all it's done is create profiterring monopolies and everyone apart from the top 1% are worse off.
The media is the mouth piece of big businesses and politicians, who work for big businesses 🙄
Well done to the unions for making a stand. We need more unions and more worker rights. Why should the rich eat most of the pie we bake?
You know it's bad when the TSSA go out, they hardly did (if ever) when I was on the railway (RMT member) back in the 80s / 90s
I'm a rail worker, and the last thing we want is to disrupt the lives of our customers! Believe it or not, the average train driver out there actually does care about the customers. But right now, we're desperately afraid that there won't be anything left of the railway in 2 years if this government gets its way, and that's why we (and our colleagues in other sectors of the railway) are opting for temporary disruption as opposed to the permanent disruption that will be there if the government dessimates the railway like it wants to! Remember, this isn't just about pay. This is about job security, safety, etc. As it stands now, almost every train I drive is delayed because of countless speed restrictions on the line because Network Rail aren't being allowed to invest money in fixing things. If the government cuts 2000 jobs as it wants to do, the infrastructure will collapse, and worst case scenario is that people will die because trains will derail (which we're already close to as some parts of the tracks are so bad, we can't go through at line speed any more). The government also wants to close all ticket offices, and get rid of all train guards. This will make the railway so unsafe! We've already seen at stations where there are no staff, drug dealers and gangs take over, intimidating passengers, vandalising stations, etc. Not to mention extremely unsafe dispatch methods. My company has already got rid of guards. When I pull into a station with a 12 car train, with 800 people on board, and I've got 16 tiny cameras as my only means of checking the side of the train, with sunlight obscuring the view, bugs covering the camera lenses, and the cheapest technology the company can get away with so the cameras blur and flicker all the time, someone could easily fall down the side of the train and I wouldn't know. Not to mention, there will be no one to assists disabled or elderly passengers. Our railway could be so incredibly good, but this government seems to want to destroy it completely for their own short-term profit! Sorry, for such a long write-up, but please remember that this is WAY more than just a fight for a pay rise. This is fight for the future of the railway itself! And I guarantee you, if we lose this one, the government will be after the NHS next!
But you do realise that every time you guys strike the sooner the government would want to automate the entire system right?
And I get it you're going through a hard time but you're not the only ones.
Machines and other automated systems definitely won't call in sick, demand pay rises, or go on strike. And I'm frankly sick and tired of not being able to see my family and friends and doing the things that I need to do Simply because you think you're the only ones owed more money.
@@callum2877 Automatic trains run on the tube and have done so for years.
When they go wrong guess who they need to move them?
A D R I V E R.......
I'd like to know what the pay increase (inc bonuses) for the CEO of Network Rail was between 2021 and 2022; I bet your bottom dollar it was more than 4%.
10:00, that women is ignorant. This is why working class is screwed. What RMT is doing RIGHT NOW is fighting not only their pay raises but they are FIGHTING for the working class. RMT is showing the other working people that WE HAVE THE POWER to change things but if you just go along with corrupt system, YOU WILL LIVE YOUR LIFE POOR until you die poor.
Yeah by her logic ALL workers would never strike and accept whatever.
"They've gotta think about others not just themselves"
That's literally what they're doing you silly person
She's probably not got a union.
She's clearly not smart either.
And probably on Zero hours contact.
*Why* "think about others"? - Some sort of religious mumbo-jumbo?
Bloke is full of it. Network rail should be ashamed!!!!
WELL DONE MICK LYNCH SOLIDARITY TO MY FELLEW RMT MEMBERS
Yeah, good on yeah Mick, what you on now, over £100,000 Solidarity with the workers
**Support the Strikes**
@@JupiterThunder. No one wants your poxy support.
a general strike is what is necessary , and ally it to mass non payment of utility bills (cancel direct debits to make this work ) for those also not in work to show solidarity and achieve real change to reverse 12 years of tory theft of our wealth
Starmer should resign immediately
And Mick comes in at the end to sweep up all the BS and drop some truths. Good. The general public needs to hear this. We never have a voice in media. Mick speaks to and for a larger number of the public than Labour and the Tories do.
Solidarity with the RMT. The fact that they have been called militant (lol) goes to show how much of an impact they are having.
Cut the transport minister pay and kindly asked him to work on Sunday for the same money with no time on off see what's is response
Absolute solidarity with the workers!
Don't be mad at them for fighting for their worth. Start fighting for your own worth!
If something is an "essential PUBLIC service" why is it in private hands?
I support industrial action. We need to support the unions and workers in our efforts to create a more fair and equal society.
And of course Labour ends up looking bad to all possible constituents...
Because the current leadership are bought by big businesses, whilst pretending they work for the people.
Vote Green and SNP.
Damn, how the worm has turned. Yrs ago, comments would have shown the public at large unhappy at the strikers. Now, support is almost universal in recognition that we are all being taken for a ride as inequality widens,
Anyone who uses the term "militant trade unions" should not be allowed to be in power.
Hear, hear, hear !!!!
Keep it up. 💯 % support
"discounted travel" wtf, is that a joke?
so many people criticize the workers, but no one criticizes the CEOs and shareholders who increased the profits in a time when the salary of the workers went down but forget the rails are running because of the workers not because of the CEOs. the unions would not be on strike without the possibility of the impression of the workers. if all workers quit on the railways there is no company anymore, and no one will work if they can not make a living out of it. make clear, that if the engineers are not keeping the railways or trains in working conditions there is no railways, the shareholders will sell them quickly and no one can use them. it was a great idea to get private shareholders in public service
SOLIDARITY TO ALL WORKERS YOU DESERVE BETTER. NATIONAL STRIKE NEEDED ACROSS THE BOARD
Ya lets have rampant inflation and cripple the country! Duh!!
My full support for the workers.
The lazy dossers couldn’t work in convulsions ,they are earning more than they deserve already . Absolute shower of Bolsheviks the lot of them holding the public to ransom . The union leaders should be arrested for sedition & subversive activities .
Well done Sam Tarry! I know he got fired but he did what Keir Starmer should be doing!!! But of course Keir Starmer is a Tory with a Labour tie!
I hear people saying: "Well I also didn't get raises, nurses and doctors are also earning less".
Yes, exactly. They should also earn more but sadly don't have a strong union.
Remember what unions and socialists got you: abolishment of child labour, 5 instead of 7 day work week, 8 instead of 12 hour shifts, paid leave...
These things were not brought about on its own.
Strike as long as is necessary. We support you!
👍. Absolutely 100% spot on.
👏👏👏👏 we so got healthcare and pensions and all these things are being undermined. It's literally everything
50% cut in maintenance.
But billions of 'profits' are funnelled to the top.
It's not just about wages.
40,000 workers who on strike because they believe they're getting fleeced, 1 Politician, and 1 CEO saying they are militant and should put up with it.
I thought we lived in a democracy?
Unity is strength
Who cares about "reduced revenues" if the company is still making a huge NET profit that's going straight to the top.
NET profit needs to be shared in a far more equitable way.
People earning hundreds of thousands have no grounds to tell people who earn 25k-40k that they can't get a pay rise.
Every time I see economic issues being discussed on Legacy Media, they always ignore the NET, shareholder dividends, CEO bonus' etc
From what planet is Grant Shapps? Surely Sunday was traditionally almost the only day of leisure (or half day) that some working people enjoyed; to the point that when “Sunday Working” was introduced, employers were not permitted to force established employees to work it, and it could only be enforced with new employment contracts.
He wants slaves, would surprise me if his ancestors did have slaves, his mentality stinks
and by the way, that minister said, "we need to modernize our railway system", and how do you do that? the railway system is private, mostly under control from companies, they are not obliged to do so, one of the so called freedom of privatizations. public transport, power, water supply and some other key areas, were never ment to be in private hands, this are goods of the state / people. since the UK gov. has made the decisions to sell these assests to private companies, they sold out the state, removed control over certain things, but the thick hads of UK people, do not see this, "we have an empire", we do not need water, electricity or transportation means, because we have an empire.
good bye UK
Put it to a referendum he said, what he actually means is hopefully we can split workers solidarity, stick with it folks the world is watching and supporting you.
Andrew Haines trying to pass this off as a good deal and READILY stating that it is, in real terms, a pay cut is INSANE. How people have the audacity to stand there like that and suggest that it's a good deal is unreal. Y'all keep striking! Solidarity from the US.
that's exactly what I was thinking - and trying to justify it with the possibility of cash bonus and discounted travel, as if that levels it out somehow. the man's living in lala land.
Why not push for a pay ratio cap for top to bottom? That includes bonuses. That way profits are more even across each company and people will feel more loyalty, as every works harder profits go up, CEO gives himself a raise, everyone automatically gets a raise to fit with the ratio cap.
Absolute joke , thousands left stranded stress to other travel companies 😡😡😡
Solidarity with everyone suffering in this situation. RMT need to do what they are doing, which in and of itself is a sad indictment of our times. I'm sorry others suffer as a consequence at a terrible time, but the people have to stand together to challenge the direction this society is going, with poverty at sickening levels and everyone losing living standards at a frightening rate. Keep fighting people!
No! Where do you stop. They just want more and more and the large unions can bully us to satisfy their greed
Everybody should strike. The rich need to show some respect.
I'm a pensioner, 79 years and living alone. No point in us going on strike is there?
Every little helps William 👍all the best.
Everybody Strike Now !
Hypocritical of a Tory to criticise unions for operating on certain principles that date from 1919 when they are in amidst of a party leadership race organised by a committee that has principles from 1922 and indeed is known as the '1922 Committee'. Once again, as with partying during lockdown, one rule for them and a set of rules for everyone else.
Power to the people!
Solidarity with rail workers who are demanding better.
Solidarity and Support for underpaid and disrespected Workers throughout the UK 🇬🇧
Solidarity with rail workers,
Bravo to those hard railway workers. Pay them fairly like those useless MPs. 8 percent in 3 years is not fair.
Ultimately striking is a protest against inequality. Inequality is the main cause of the degradation of the economy. Therefore, I stand with the strikers.
The inflation we are in now is caused by the economy being less productive, making less stuff, and therefore pushing the prices up.
Since there are less resources to go around the prices go up, wages don’t follow, and consumption goes down.
The rail unions are demanding their consumption stay the same, ultimately taking food from the mouths of others. Total consumption MUST go down when the economy is less productive, SOMEONE will have less if they have more.
The only solution is making the economy more productive, then everyone can have more. But instead they further damage productivity, stop commuters from working and adding productivity, stopping freight from arriving to shops, causing more scarcity and higher prices.
People who support this just don’t have the mental capacity to see the bigger picture.
If only you had a basic understanding of economics and the difference between supply driven inflation and demand driven inflation . I’m all for someone learning skills and getting paid more for being more productive, but all they are doing is fighting over scraps and taking food from the ones who really need it most
The economy is more productive when the general population (rather than the elite) have more money. If they have more money they can consume more. Striking and demanding higher wages is a way for ordinary people to ensure they have more money in relation to the elite. The ideal situation would be if all working people demanded higher wages. Then we wouldnt have such an unequal society that we do now. Unfortunately there are ignorant people like you going around convincing theirselves and others that its better to have a lower wage and be poorer. Keep it up clever cloggs!
@@frixosfriedman7813 resources are finite. Consumption can't be higher than production, think about it dummy.
Lack of resources is the cause of inflation. The only solution is to be more productive, these strikes are making our economy less productive, and making resources even more scarce.
The honest working members of society can't get to work to he productive, freight trains can't deliver goods to shops which causes more scarcity which makes prices even higher.
There's a real lack of education in this country 🤦
What do you think the train company does with their profits? Do you think the owners just shove cash under their beds? No. They invest it in capital to supply more goods and services. Even if the profits were put in the bank, what do you think the bank do with the money? They lend it to businesses to fund projects which produce goods and services
@@ctb1977 Its not always true that a lack of resources is the cause of inflation. Inflation is where the value of the currency is weakened with respect to commodities. You can have a situation where there is no change in the amount of resources available, but inflation persists because there is an increase in the money supply.
Your point about the strikes only serving to add to inflation: the aim of a strike is to negotiate a wage increase and then get back to a functioning and productive transport system. Its the employers failure to negotiate and provide the wage increase quickly that is causing the prolonged disruption.
As to your point about businesses investing and supposedly putting the money back into the economy. Some of the money does go back into the economy and creates jobs, etc (though remember that the goal of a business is to minimize the amount of jobs it needs to create). But in recent decades most of the money just flows out of the country into tax havens, and into the stock markets and speculative investments.
Why else do you think there has been stagnating growth since the financial crisis of 2008 with no wage increase?
Dont you think your approach which appears to be 'more of the same' Conservative austerity party of the rich politics will just bring about the situation we are in now but worse? Or do you think perhaps some kind of politics for working people might bring about a positive change?
After all, madness is repeating the same thing but expecting a different result.
Rail workers walk out over pay dispute. Is this real
Hardly represents the situation.