Recent content by highdyke

Under UK law it would be more to do with contract law and custom and practice, but this is a very complex legal area and I'm not a lawyer or judge. Personally support work to rule btw, striking I'm erring more toward binding arbitration after a set period for striking.

I'm not obliged to answer the question? And WTF has the RSSB Rule Book got to do with French employment/contract law?

Ask a French lawyer. Their laws work very different from ours, they have a completely different constitution.

It's not, it's industrial action though.

France have laws if workers abuse the right to strike or have political strikes, or picket it's illegal. http://www.asi.is/media/7581/Strike_rules_in_the_EU27.pdf

http://www.brightonandhoveindependent.co.uk/news/transport/transport-secretary-to-discuss-second-brighton-mainline-1-7773707 --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Yes indeed 30% service and work to rule is illegal, unlike here. In the USA striking is illegal by public service workers...

As a signaller I used to rely on TOPs all the time for platforming, it's no good putting a 5 car train into a bay that holds 4 cars or a freight train that has too many SLUs for some loops! Seems to me the railway needs better UX designers at times, ironically Simsig had train running...

That data is available on TOPS etc and could be incorporated into schematic train running information by hovering your mouse over the headcode.

As a centrist, I believe in strong left and right wing parties to get the best of both worlds! (And ultimately the policies I would like enacted!)

Heard the news? A clause has been inserted into other TOCs contractual agreements saying the government will be covering the cost of industrial action. Pacer replacement and train replacement in Liverpool was done on the basis they will be DOO. It doesn't take much imagination that when sprinter...

Poll after poll has shown it. For example. https://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/11/04/nationalise-energy-and-rail-companies-say-public/

Until they become completely private and provide amazing value for money, whatever they think, they don't have any choice. The democratically elected government want a reduction in the operating costs. Whether you think guards shops be the sacrificial lamb, middle management, delay attribution...

Going by what the RDG come out with yes? Obviously, we know the TOCs run by the ex-Guard are not quite so keen.. Ultimately, aside from perhaps open-access, while the industry benefits from so much public cash, they have to do as they are told by its paymasters. I suppose given preference the...

It's all semantics I know, but really what you can conclude is they are opposed to DOO full stop and want a roll back. The RMT are just opposed full stop, but ultimately have to run with ASLEF policy. This is the quandary for the government - who support that railway with over £4bn of taxpayers...

The irony being, the strike campaign is funded by capitalism (shares and property portfolios) by a bunch of socialists for a socialist cause aka nationalisation. The strike is absolutely political from both sides, ultimately.