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  1. Published on: 22/06/2017 05:38 PMReported by: roving-eye
    The three days of RMT strikes on Merseyrail will mean more days of disruption for passengers.




    Jan Chaudhry-van der Velde, Merseyrail’s managing director, said:

    ‘Although we brought several new initiatives to the table in the last round of talks, the RMT is unprepared to work with us to find middle ground. As well as guaranteeing a job to all guards who wish to stay at Merseyrail under the same terms and conditions, once the new trains arrive in 2020, we also put on the negotiating table a member of customer service staff on every train after eight o’clock at night.

    The strike on Sunday 23rd July is timed to cause maximum disruption to people attending the last day of the Open Golf at Royal Birkdale. At a time of heightened fears of terrorism, it beggars belief that RMT are prepared to disrupt this event and make protection of the crowds more difficult for us and our colleagues in the police and security services.

    They are striking during the weekend (8th July) where Liverpool is proudly hosting the British Style Collective for the first time– an event that’s bringing much excitement and profile to the Liverpool City Region.

    ‘While we, as always, will do our best to minimise disruption, our passengers should not be made to suffer at the hands of the RMT, and the Liverpool City Region should not be caught in the cross-fire of a national dispute directed by unions in London.
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  3. justbecause says:22/06/2017 07:42 PM
    The officials at the RMT are pure filth.

  4. local says:22/06/2017 07:58 PM
    They want to keep jobs and guards on trains not exactly criminal aspirations.

  5. Little Londoner says:22/06/2017 08:20 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by justbecause View Post
    The officials at the RMT are pure filth.
    I bet they think well of you also. I don't suppose you could expand on your obvious expert knowledge of the rail industry. Or was it just a snippet you saw on page 3 of the Sun.

  6. FormbyHightown says:22/06/2017 09:32 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by roving-eye View Post
    When did that train visit Southport?

  7. ausard2 says:22/06/2017 09:56 PM
    Wow, you pay 60p a month membership and somebody on £100,000 a year + tells you strike. Please you guys are more
    Intelligent than this. You
    will loose what ???? whilst your leadership are enjoying a meal costing ???? They don't loose wages.

  8. Little Londoner says:22/06/2017 10:48 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by ausard2 View Post
    Wow, you pay 60p a month membership and somebody on £100,000 a year + tells you strike. Please you guys are more
    Intelligent than this. You
    will loose what ???? whilst your leadership are enjoying a meal costing ???? They don't loose wages.
    You really don't have a grasp on Unions do you? No one TELLS you to go on strike there are branch meetings at which a vote is taken whether to BALLOT for strike action after the branches have voted and the Union has a mandate to BALLOT it's members it arranges through a third party (so that it is not rigged) to send out BALLOT Papers to ALL members with a stamped return envelope.
    The papers go back to the THIRD Party and are counted and the result declared, then if the vote is for Strike Action the Union informs the employer(s) of it's intention to hold a strike.
    The employer(s) have notice so that further negotiations can take place or not as the case may be.
    As for the 60p a month you claim it costs proves you know nothing about the subject you so venomously decry. As for intelligence I hope you are not claiming to be more intelligent than a Union Member as they would know the difference between LOSE and LOOSE.
    I hope this helps then in future you may realise that when people vote to go on strike they do it knowing that they are going to LOSE money so obviously they don't do it lightly.
    We all know the Tories would love to do away with Employees rights and have everyone bowing and scraping and dancing to the Employers Tune for whatever HE decides is a fair wage to keep the bu**ers from starving to death. So whatever job you do or did the rights you had to Holiday Pay/Sick Pay/Overtime Rates were more likely than not set by Unions in consultation with employers.

  9. ECHOEONE says:23/06/2017 08:10 AM
    Ultimately self defeating.

  10. Little Londoner says:23/06/2017 08:42 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by ECHOEONE View Post
    Ultimately self defeating.
    Oh right ! If they were ALL SELF DEFEATING I would think they would have been abandoned and Unions gone out of business.
    The thing about people who know so much about Unions but aren't in them is that they think they are just there to arrange STRIKES and don't recognise the good they actually do for their members. I have been in a Union for the last 47 years and have been on strike TWICE but they have also come down hard on bosses who have just fallen out of the IDIOT tree and prevented someone being seriously hurt. Sorry to burst your bubble.
    As for the Strike in Question since the Idiots in blue decided to privatise the Railway the people running most of these firms have no knowledge whatsoever of Railway operations.
    In BR days with the exception of the Chairman of BR all the management had come through the ranks and knew what they were on about unlike today when someone from the British Ballet Shoe Corporation gets a job running a Train Operating Company they haven't a clue. And when Virgin took over the West Coast Main Line one of their top men brainlessly asked "why can't our trains overtake these others"
    And you think Unions are Worthless.

  11. gerrard24 says:23/06/2017 10:45 AM
    All his union Bashing is ridicules . How many Train Drivers are on Zero Hours, How many Train Drivers are on the Basic wage. None to Both and the reason is the Union. Why don't the people express there anger to the Private companies that are only interested in Greed.

  12. libraryguy says:23/06/2017 03:05 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by FormbyHightown View Post
    When did that train visit Southport?


    It's a representation of the new trains being built for Merseyrail, it hasn't been built yet

  13. FormbyHightown says:23/06/2017 05:08 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by libraryguy View Post
    It's a representation of the new trains being built for Merseyrail, it hasn't been built yet

    😜

  14. Knot wright says:23/06/2017 06:29 PM
    It's a representation of the new trains being built for Merseyrail, it hasn't been built yet

    so we get another half baked train solution that fails at the first fall of leaves ?

  15. Tallboy says:24/06/2017 12:49 AM
    How to make friends and influence people NOT! Time this useless Union was brought into the modern age that the rest of us live in. Get real FFS, irony is MiseryTrail is 42% owned by Liverpool City Council, nuff said.....................

  16. jonnybgood says:24/06/2017 03:44 AM
    If people from out of the area want to watch the golf,then either drive,or get a coach into Southport for the Open Golf,instead of getting a train,or just stay at home,and watch it on the Tv instead...simples.



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