towerman
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Post by towerman on Nov 15, 2019 14:04:36 GMT
Anyone know what's behind the driver's strike planned for the 27th of this month on the Victoria Line?
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Post by John Tuthill on Nov 15, 2019 14:20:05 GMT
Anyone know what's behind the driver's strike planned for the 27th of this month on the Victoria Line? Check out the BBC webpage |
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Post by aslefshrugged on Nov 15, 2019 14:27:21 GMT
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Post by towerman on Nov 15, 2019 16:15:42 GMT
Seems to me that since LU started employing direct recruit graduates as managers industrial relations seem to have gone to pot.Much preferred the old days where you had to do time on the shop floor & gain some experience before being in charge of staff.
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Post by stapler on Nov 15, 2019 16:30:45 GMT
Seems to me that since LU started employing direct recruit graduates as managers industrial relations seem to have gone to pot.Much preferred the old days where you had to do time on the shop floor & gain some experience before being in charge of staff. That's along time ago! I was interviewed for such a post in 1971 - and failed to get it. Sine I spent 25 years as a lay TU officer, perhaps that was a good result for both parties! |
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Post by goldenarrow on Nov 15, 2019 17:21:53 GMT
I think the issue also lies with the kind of teaching that goes into these undergraduate programmes that in my opinion totally misses the very important role that trade unionism plays in the transport industry. Part of this stems from the ignorance of the financial service industry that has little or no employment protection to rival trade unionism and ultimately most of these courses act as a pipeline to those sort of lines of work.
Even at GSCE and A Level, trade unions are portrayed as more of a nuisance than a mediator between the workforce and management. It gives a very polarised impression of a workplace under siege which is what these managers actions seem to be amplifying.
I really do wonder wether things would be different if undergrads getting into the transport industry were actually educated on trade relations rather than spoon fed some bland assumptions dreamt up by some capitalist theorist.
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Post by aslefshrugged on Nov 22, 2019 11:53:57 GMT
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Post by drainrat on Dec 25, 2019 20:15:14 GMT
Love how the right wing media use the title ‘union bosses’ as if our trade unions were the same as US unions, run by the mafia. I’ve never had a union boss, I wonder what having one would be like 🤔 I guess if I was employed by the union, then I’d have a union boss, however, I pay a sub, go to branch meetings, propose items for discussion, join in debate, vote on proposals, discuss disputes, vote on disputes....hmmm, I guess I am my own boss in the union, does that make me a ‘union boss’ I wonder 🤔 Another thing is how many of my colleagues have the notion of themselves being separate from the union, they’ve been sold a red herring and bought it. They then don’t take part in organising, think their reps are foisted upon them, decisions made they have no say in. I just wanna shake them and scream “YOU ARE THE UNION!” |
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Post by zbang on Dec 26, 2019 4:57:41 GMT
We have the same problem with the media on the left side of the pond. It's really only a few of the really huge unions that were infected with organized crime connections; the rest may have some well-known people at the national level but the locals are, well, local. And Hell has little fury like a local nurses or teachers union being upset  . |
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Post by superteacher on Dec 26, 2019 7:53:12 GMT
Back to discussing the Victoria strike please.
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