To quote Oscar Wilde: "The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable".
The RMT▸ versus Gulf oil money..................they deserve each other !
Whatever you think of RMT the P&O workers don't deserve this.
It is the sort of action by employers that makes unions to have the characteristics you so dislike in RMT. Look at early rail accident history and you will find
ASLEF» fighting for its members against huge injustice from employers.
Perhaps you would like to read what I actually wrote - I did not say that the "P & O workers deserve this", I said that the RMT "deserved" the P & O management - and vice versa. Both sides in this dispute are equally stupid and pig-headed.
Just where did I imply, let alone say, that that the RMT has characteristics that I "so dislike" ?? I said no such thing ! Neither did I make any comment on what I might "think" about the RMT (or P & O). My comment was deliberately totally neutral - I did not identify either the "Unspeakable" or the "Uneatable" to requote Mr Wilde. When I see a fence I sit on it..................
Perhaps the senior management of P & O decided after watching the recent antics of the RMT on the rail network that the only way to resolve the problem was to get their retaliation in first ? Or is there only one side of this dispute that is allowed to be put forward ?