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« Reply #105 on: February 16, 2023, 18:13:36 »

Probably does for those workers trying to use the trains too.
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« Reply #106 on: February 16, 2023, 18:42:15 »

Complaints on social media that for some/most? staff, all four days fall into one pay packet…

Nothing to prevent anyone unhappy with the dates announced from crossing a picket and booking on.
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« Reply #107 on: February 16, 2023, 20:31:27 »

Complaints on social media that for some/most? staff, all four days fall into one pay packet…

Hearts bleeding across the land.....
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« Reply #108 on: February 17, 2023, 06:56:55 »

Complaints on social media that for some/most? staff, all four days fall into one pay packet…

Nothing to prevent anyone unhappy with the dates announced from crossing a picket and booking on.

It's never as simple as it sounds for an individual, it is known that so called "black legs" will be ostracised by their work colleges for years for people in safety critical rolls could lead to dangerous occupancies.

There is disquiet within some NR» (Network Rail - home page) work locations, there have been people leave the RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers).  The RMT move to ban overtime for NR staff could backfire
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« Reply #109 on: February 17, 2023, 12:22:33 »

March and April strike dates have been announced
Thursday March 16,
Saturday march 18
Thursday March 30
Saturday April 1,
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« Reply #110 on: February 17, 2023, 12:37:23 »

See reply 527 above. Huh
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« Reply #111 on: February 24, 2023, 14:16:47 »

TSSA» (Transport Salaried Staffs' Association - about) accepts offer and calls off industrial action.

https://news.sky.com/story/train-drivers-union-tssa-cancels-strike-action-after-members-accept-pay-deal-12818865
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« Reply #112 on: February 25, 2023, 11:26:21 »

Complaints on social media that for some/most? staff, all four days fall into one pay packet…

Nothing to prevent anyone unhappy with the dates announced from crossing a picket and booking on.

When you see staff members that are still ostracised 41 years on after coming in during the 1982 dispute, that’s not entirely true.
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« Reply #113 on: February 25, 2023, 12:05:08 »

Complaints on social media that for some/most? staff, all four days fall into one pay packet…

Nothing to prevent anyone unhappy with the dates announced from crossing a picket and booking on.

When you see staff members that are still ostracised 41 years on after coming in during the 1982 dispute, that’s not entirely true.

That says a great deal more about those doing the ostracising than the staff members who went to work.
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« Reply #114 on: February 26, 2023, 08:21:52 »

Complaints on social media that for some/most? staff, all four days fall into one pay packet…

Nothing to prevent anyone unhappy with the dates announced from crossing a picket and booking on.

When you see staff members that are still ostracised 41 years on after coming in during the 1982 dispute, that’s not entirely true.

That says a great deal more about those doing the ostracising than the staff members who went to work.

Whilst that may be true, it isn’t much comfort to the staff involved.
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« Reply #115 on: February 26, 2023, 09:18:30 »

An interesting conflation of the conflict in Ukraine with the latest RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers) dispute from one of the NEC» (National Exhibition Centre - about)....... Roll Eyes


https://twitter.com/STWuk/status/1629483933548044292?s=20
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« Reply #116 on: February 27, 2023, 03:23:03 »



When you see staff members that are still ostracised 41 years on after coming in during the 1982 dispute, that’s not entirely true.

Just how many 57+ year old staff are there still ostracising picket line crossing colleagues?

There's bearing a grudge for four decades then there's hyperbole...  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #117 on: February 27, 2023, 04:11:40 »

The recent First Kernow bus strike saw a minority of union members 'intimidating' others by hard staring at certain vantage points.
Feelings still run deep between strikers and non strikers.
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« Reply #118 on: February 27, 2023, 06:30:18 »

The recent First Kernow bus strike saw a minority of union members 'intimidating' others by hard staring at certain vantage points.
Feelings still run deep between strikers and non strikers.

Paddington Bear used the same tactic.
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« Reply #119 on: February 27, 2023, 10:55:42 »



When you see staff members that are still ostracised 41 years on after coming in during the 1982 dispute, that’s not entirely true.

Just how many 57+ year old staff are there still ostracising picket line crossing colleagues?

There's bearing a grudge for four decades then there's hyperbole...  Roll Eyes

As a quarter of all drivers are 55 and over, quite a few. And that rubs off on others too.
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