Some tube strikes, just for a change.

[Citizen66]

Which is kinda true. The driver of a tube train is paid a lot more than, say, a nurse with 8 years' experience and a degree.

But it wasn't the drivers who were balloted for this action.

Honest question. Why can't the tube drivers strike on the nurses's behalf?

It happened recently, I'm sure; can we change it back?

Secondary striking is illegal in this country. You can thank Maggie for that one.

 

[scifisam]

But it wasn't the drivers who were balloted for this action.



Secondary striking is illegal in this country. You can thank Maggie for that one.

I know, but I really didn't phrase myself well. What I meant was, why is secondary striking illegal, and why can't we change it back?

 

[Blagsta]

I know, but I really didn't phrase myself well. What I meant was, why is secondary striking illegal, and why can't we change it back?

Thatcher made it illegal, during the miner's strike iirc. It ain't gonna change back.

 

[scifisam]

Thatcher made it illegal, during the miner's strike iirc. It ain't gonna change back.

I know it was made illegal under Thatcher's government. I was just wondering what the justifications were for it, and indulging in a pipe dream where the law was changed again. Mind you, a government that would change that law would probably a government that workers didn't particularly need to strike against.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Thatcher made it illegal, during the miner's strike iirc. It ain't gonna change back.

I'm not so sure it won't come back. I think that pursuing certain types of cases - e.g. cases where permanent employees are not allowed to organise action in solidarity with their agency colleagues and/or actions taken by the employees of one franchised operation in support of another - through the means available at European and international level could see at least a limited return of legal solidarity actions...and a very good thing it would be too.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[Isambard]

You know, if it weren't for posts like these and others I've seen on here, I'd be staunchly against the strikes, relatively high tube drivers' pay (try to persuade me their pay is not relatively high, and you'll lose me, so please don't),

London tube drivers get decent money. They get it becasue they stick together.

Now, let's take 30 grand and do the maths. Under the fucked up way that mortgages had developed it was standard to get a mortage of say 5 times your salary. Pray tell me where in London were and what you get for 150K ?

My salary isn't a million miles away from a London tube driver.
I can live well on it as I don't have depedents and live in a cheap flatshare.
My colleagues who have a family to support find it HARD.

 

[DarthSydodyas]

Now, let's take 30 grand and do the maths. Under the fucked up way that mortgages had developed it was standard to get a mortage of say 5 times your salary. Pray tell me where in London were and what you get for 150K ?

Aside from salaries being out of line with morgages, we have to contend with an increase in cost of living. £30k was a good sum, maybe 10 years ago.

 

[Isambard]

Oh indeed. Although some people live and survive on a lot less, 30K isn't the pot of gold salary that some commentators like to suggest it is.

 

[Oxpecker]

40k

 

[Citizen66]

40k

lol

Honesty is the best policy

 

[Oxpecker]

In that case £40,112 -

 

[teuchter]

And here we go again, again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7558763.stm

It will be interesting to see whether Boris gets directly involved in this one, or not.

 

[JTG]

without even reading that I can tell you that the tube workers are right

 

[Oxpecker]

 

[minkboy]

Well Tubelines are not that far away from running out of money. PPP is almost over!