RMT strike: what you can do.

Ooh! That sounds like fun. I’ve just tried it. I got through straight away and was then put through to someone else. They seemed completely unsure about anything although the told me that the strike was completely lawful. I asked for written confirmation and they asked me if I wanted it sent to me!

I gave my name and address. I’ll see what happens. So no jammed switchboards yet, but there’s still time…

Everybody – pass it on!

the biter bit

Posted over 2 years ago by pottytime

Er…isn’t this exercise a little academic now, seeing as the RMT have called off the strike?

(Sorry to any academics reading this.)

Posted over 2 years ago by BraveNewMalden

Yes, and all those maintenance workers will be really annoyed at answering the phone and posting letters. Won’t they?

Posted over 2 years ago by Flashboy

They might have called off this strike but they have made it clear that that doesn’t mean that next week’s strike won’t go on.

And anything that might piss off people that have pissed me off has to be worthwhile…

Posted over 2 years ago by pottytime

Or you could support the workers, and not the management cuntlets that caused this fiasco …

Posted over 2 years ago by purpaboo

The management cuntlets, as you so elegantly put it, have long since fucked off and put their bonuses into offshore accounts. The sooner that bit is forgotten, the better. A bit like Livingstone’s American chummy and the shitload that was thrown in his direction. So there is fuck all we can do about them and that is almost always the case in the private sector. It’s not like they’re being sacked en masse like would be the case in many other companies and I’m not saying that they’re getting a fantastic deal, but they aren’t being completely badly done to.

What I – and, I would suggest, most people – are complaining about is that we – the commuters – are being punished for something that is completely beyond our control and something that we had no part in. The strike is about as relevant as doctors refusing to see patients because of some managerial disagreement.

How the fuck do I support “the workers” when my job as “a worker” could be jeopardised by their action? Shall I strike by refusing to use the tube?

Posted over 2 years ago by pottytime

You can support the workers by stopping pissing and moaning at them when you clearly know that it was the management that was at fault.

In what way could your job as “a worker” be jeopardised by their (strike) action?

Posted over 2 years ago by purpaboo

The strike is about as relevant as doctors refusing to see patients because of some managerial disagreement

Actually, the definition of a strike is the withdrawal of labour in protest at a grievance with the employer w.r.t. working conditions or pay. So actually, it’s entirely relevant (what other labour could they withdraw?), just as it would be relevant doctors not seeing patients when on strike.

[As it happens junior doctors have been seriously considering strike action for some months now, because of “some managerial disagreement”, although that would basically entail withdrawal of all but emergency/on-call services (thereby not endangering lives). I for one have long been an advocate of such industrial action by doctors, but unfortunately we’re “represented” by a bloated old-boys’ club called the BMA and not by a proper union like the RMT. But let’s not digress…]

Posted over 2 years ago by SFULG

2500 people bringing a city (and over 2,000,000 people) to its knees because they want “job security” is simply not on.

They’ve been promised what can be promised.

How long until the next strike?

Posted over 2 years ago by logomomo

The only way I’m affected by the strike is everyone in the office pissing off an hour early leaving me to man the office by myself because I’m the only one who is lucky enough to walk in. I hope I get some kind of reward for dealing with it all on my own, preferabably in the shape of a hefty pint of alcohol.

Posted over 2 years ago by LittleEmily

Don’t sell yourself short, kid. Ask for two.

Posted over 2 years ago by BraveNewMalden

and if they don’t give it you, you know what course of action is most effective

Posted over 2 years ago by logomomo tipped with 1K

What we need is a Customers’ Strike. Break the backs of LU, TFL, Bob Crow, and all the associated hangers-on by NOBODY buying a ticket, a pass, or getting on the tube for one solid week.

We ‘fasted’ for 2-3 days at a time before, so I say we could do a week in one go just to show those bastards once and for all who really matters here. We need a Customers’ Union and a Customers’ Strike. I’d like to see the look on Bob Crow’s horrible piggy face when the bottom falls out of his power base.

Posted over 2 years ago by drunkenbridesmaid

And how would a “customers’ strike” break the backs of the unions?

They’d just take the week off on full pay.

Please try and remember that it was the management that fucked this up, not the workers.

Posted over 2 years ago by purpaboo