National Rail Strikes June- I Am Furious

[gordiescotland1]

I am furious there are 2 proposed national rail strikes in june one of them over the time I am due to go down to my nephews confirmation. I have booked and paid for hotels and theatre tickets now I will have to go by coach overnight or I will lose quite a bit of money. How dare unions hold this country to ransom and disrupt plans bring back Margaret Thatcher she would never have allowed this God I hated that witch but she knew how to sort out the unions. Strikes should be illegal. Staff are bloody lucky they have jobs millions not so lucky. No sympathy for their cause whatsoever nothing but contempt for the plans they have ruined. Is there nothing David Cameron can do I know hes as weak as dishwater at the best of times but Maggie wouldnt have put up with this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32920794
Apart from my rant what is everyones take on these strikes

[TWR]

Wolf, to the joy of some on here I remember working for a pratt that said "You Will Do It" that does not work in my mind, there is a way to talk & ask employers, to day it's the case of "Do It r feck off" that does not work with me either, I sorted this clever *** basdsd myself, he now works for someone else, that someone else is treating the person the same way as that someone treated their employers, Unions are there for your protection if used it the right way, I do not agree with the Red Robbo days of British Leyland in Coventry, " You put a screw in that door when someone else should do it" that in my opinion was stupid, some on here do not remember them days, I do, I also remember the day's when Employers were treated like SH IT, in my opinion, them day have long gone.

[mushroom25]

//them day have long gone. //

i'm not sure they have, mr boss is just not as blunt. the script now runs:-

do this. oh and by the way, if you don't, i'll go and find someone else who will.

[TWR]

That's why you need a Union Mushroom, but that's why the Tory's want to get rid of them, obviously I'm wrong to a few on here.

[lcg]

fascist! the right to strike should be a god given one for every worker in this country to ensure that the government and employers don't treat them like crap. if you follow your logic.....it's your own fault for not having a car!

[Baldric]

///I also remember the day's when Employers were treated like SH IT///

Who would treat their Employer like that if they wanted to keep their job?

[TWR]

A tory employer.

[tonyav]

Hey TWR, my boss is a labour Lord. He bought it fair and square off Tony Blair.

[Baldric]

You seem confused, let me explain, an Employer is someone who gives you a job and pays your wages, why would you treat them like ***?

[Svejk]

No need to go off the rails, gordie.

[lcg]

exactly twr.....the government in charge of the nhs is a prime example. i am a qualified psych nurse (8 years) and have worked in the nhs and care establishments for 20 years.....but if i had the chance to go back to when i was deciding what to do at uni, i would tell my former self to run a mile from making all of my care exprerience and hard graft 'proper' by becoming a nurse. i did so and loved it to start with, every minute - but over the last 5 years......i have begun to hate it. we are understaffed, underfunded and under resourced. i never get a break, i never leave on time, i can never do all the work that is required by everybody and spend my time apologising mostly. it has become soul destroying and i am becoming physically and mentally unwell as a result of such an environment. when people say nurses never do anything and are useless make my blood boil. i would like for them to walk a mile in mine or my colleagues shoes. most wouldn't have the balls for a start. so yes......a labour government is very much wanted and needed. or the poor, disabled, sick, homeless and disenfranchised will be f*****.

[TWR]

Tony, A little story of arrogance & the sort people I used to work / deal with, I ended up on a Friday night at Chatham Docks waiting for the SAT morning load up of timber for the North, " For some, that's North of the Thames, these arrogant badsds loaded their own local trucks first obviously been 20 mins from home before loading us that had 200 mile+ to travel, I once met a clever sod that his Father owned a pub on an Ind East in Tonbridge Kent, this knob though, because he worked in the City & for the Daily Mirror may I add, he was the above the rest!! I may not be the most educated person on this planet but in a room full of his so-call crownies, it back fired, do you kown wherd I am going with the Bridge Tony?

[TWR]

Icj, been there, see the cock up's, heard about the big wages for causing cock ups, but there again what the hell, how's paying for it?

[ToraToraTora]

chaptazbru:"Anything that upsets the tories, is good in my books ! " - this doesn't, this delights tories, it upsets lefties like the OP! Tories love strikes it turns public opinion against the unions and that is good. TGL herself was a product of loony tunes unions. Thank guys.

[chaptazbru2]

I'm a member of the public and it doesn't turn me against them ! More power to their elbows I say ...

[naomi24]

Why?

[chaptazbru2]

Because I agree with them, OBVIOUSLY !!

[cesdlv]

My take: you are a very selfish human being who wishes to deny working people the only weapon they have to maintain and improve their terms of employment. Simple.

[boxtops]

Gordie, believe me, you're not the only one affected by the proposed strikes - but the whole point of striking is to upset the population, to put pressure on employers to get them to change their minds.

[ladybirder]

I worked in the private sector almost all of my working life which was long. If I ever had a problem, and that was a very rare occurrence, I would go and talk to my boss and we'd sort it to our mutual satisfaction with good will on both sides. I must have been particularly lucky.

[naomi24]

chaptazbru2, but you only agree with them because you think it hurts the government, whereas as has already been said it simply makes the general public more anti-union. Can't help thinking you haven't really thought this through.