Rail Union / Southern trains

[Heathblue]

Very naive of you Eric.

Sadly it is not the lowest paid people in society that are striking every week. It is not the hospital porters, cleaners, cooks and security guards that are striking in the NHS it's the privileged junior doctors who are striking about pay and unsociable hours but they pretend it's all about "patient safety".

I can't think off the top of my head a genuine strike by minimum wage workers? If anyone should be striking now it should prison guards who are having to work in appalling conditions in a system that is failing. Southern Rail employees have it good compared to the vast majority.

I think you make a very good point,
I do think on this occasion however, that passenger safety is paramount and that a guard contributes to safety.

[Organ Morgan.]

Trade union membership pro rata is at its lowest since 1940. Only one in every four employees is a member. Collective bargaining is next to impossible at so many workplaces. The rail unions draw strength and communality from having high rates of membership. Nevertheless, they have to jump through many hoops to legally withdraw their labour due to the machinations of the political class since Thatcher came to power. Politicians and their partners know only too well that a fractured workforce, as with the population generally, is easier to control.

[Heathblue]

Trade union membership pro rata is at its lowest since 1940. Only one in every four employees is a member. Collective bargaining is next to impossible at so many workplaces. The rail unions draw strength and communality from having high rates of membership. Nevertheless, they have to jump through many hoops to legally withdraw their labour due to the machinations of the political class since Thatcher came to power. Politicians and their partners know only too well that a fractured workforce, as with the population generally, is easier to control.

I rejoined a trade union this year, 32 years after jacking the union in.

[Eric Cartman]

Trade union membership pro rata is at its lowest since 1940. Only one in every four employees is a member. Collective bargaining is next to impossible at so many workplaces. The rail unions draw strength and communality from having high rates of membership. Nevertheless, they have to jump through many hoops to legally withdraw their labour due to the machinations of the political class since Thatcher came to power. Politicians and their partners know only too well that a fractured workforce, as with the population generally, is easier to control.

Agreed. Government rhetoric on this week of strikes makes it pretty damn obvious what they are trying to do, many people still not noticing.

[Barry Dragon]

Trade union membership pro rata is at its lowest since 1940. Only one in every four employees is a member. Collective bargaining is next to impossible at so many workplaces. The rail unions draw strength and communality from having high rates of membership. Nevertheless, they have to jump through many hoops to legally withdraw their labour due to the machinations of the political class since Thatcher came to power. Politicians and their partners know only too well that a fractured workforce, as with the population generally, is easier to control.

Unions dont protect the working class any more. They protect the middle class.

If they did genuinely support the working class then people might support them a bit more. But its not, its middle earners that strike. couldnt give a shit about them.