Network Rail Signallers: Strike Action

[mickey]

You lot were quite willing to attack the FCC drivers over not working their DAYS OFF a few months ago.Would you work your days off?

While noting the reminders above about support for drivers in this case, it's useful to point out that the reason so many people get annoyed with cases such as this (and the LM dispute at the same time) is that railway staff always seem so reluctant to move to 7-day rosters (or equivalent, e.g. 14-day fortnights, etc.), which most people would expect to be the norm in a service industry such as the railway. Certainly if I worked on the railway I would expect to have to work Sundays on a non-voluntary basis - after all, we should be providing a service when customers want it, not when we want it. I would still expect to get days off, I just wouldn't be as picky as some seem to be about which days they were. As I've said before, ordinary people don't necessarily disagree with industrial action, only when it's over something they consider unreasonable.

 

[jon0844]

I think most people actually were supportive of the FCC drivers on here - and elsewhere. At least until it started to drag on and got so bad (at least on the TL side) that trains were wedged and there could be hours between trains. The public can't stay supportive forever, they have lives too - and may well lose money in numerous ways as a result; with no way to recover it.

I'll probably never know what was going on within management, but don't forget we had some rather major changes in management in a short space of time - and who knows who was for or against sorting it out, and the outside influences from First Group and the Government.

FCC does seem to have been quite quick to try and make amends with passengers since, and has only just in the last day or two increased the compensation even further for TL users. Sadly, still sod all for the GN side. We were affected too, even if nowhere near as much.