Title: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: Lee on March 18, 2008, 21:55:05 I Work For FGW blog post link.
http://www.iworkforfgw.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=66&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a Title: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: Lee on March 20, 2008, 01:49:40 BBC article link.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7305316.stm This Is Plymouth article link. http://thisisplymouth.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=181429&command=displayContent&sourceNode=229968&home=yes&more_nodeId1=133174&contentPK=20191441 Title: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: dog box on March 21, 2008, 12:20:03 If this dispute goes ahead looks as if FGW Trains will be in for a busy time...its a bit funny really some older posts on here where people are singing the praises of SWTand suggesting lots of FGW services should be handed over to them...........if that had happened a lot of people would have had No train to go to Work on
Title: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: swlines on March 21, 2008, 12:42:22 The driver's aren't really being unfair bearing in mind what they had to ballot on - a lot would not mind with a 4.5% increase with no change in terms & conditions, but that is not what they voted on.
Title: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: Lee on March 22, 2008, 00:50:27 I Work For FGW blog update link.
http://www.iworkforfgw.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=69&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a Title: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: swlines on March 22, 2008, 09:01:03 Hmm.... I wonder where I recognise that timetable from...
Oh yes, the previous strike ... Title: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: eightf48544 on March 24, 2008, 11:12:53 One of the reasons why so many free marketeers wanted BR broken up was to curb the power of the Unions.
Well that that ones come back to bite them, by handing the unions more power rahter than less. They don't have to call all drivers as they did in BR days they can just call out a few hundred from one TOC and win their dispute. Then they go to the next TOC and say that lot have given us X% but they lost Y days of strikes, how about X+1 and no strikes? A classic case of divide and rule. It's good to see the workers winning for a change. Good luck to them I say. Title: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: mjones on March 25, 2008, 21:16:43 ... Which workers? Not the people who won't be able to get to work and may end up losing pay, many of whom are paid less than railway workers >:(It's good to see the workers winning for a change. Good luck to them I say. Title: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: Conner on March 26, 2008, 09:59:07 I've just realised this is the week I am in Weymouth for a holiday.
I was hoping to take the train around and get some SWT pictures as I have never seen them before. Well now I can't. I'll leave my thoughts off or the other moderators will kick me. Title: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: swlines on March 26, 2008, 13:48:39 Conner, I would imagine that there will be a few 444s parked in Jersey sidings or in Weymouth itself during the strike. Jersey sidings are a pair of sidings about a 15 minute walk from Weymouth station.
Title: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: Conner on March 26, 2008, 14:56:55 Conner, I would imagine that there will be a few 444s parked in Jersey sidings or in Weymouth itself during the strike. Jersey sidings are a pair of sidings about a 15 minute walk from Weymouth station. Good, will pop up there when I get there on Monday, I have a few hours to kill in Weymouth.Title: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: Lee on March 26, 2008, 15:49:55 Further BBC article link.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7314016.stm Title: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: Ollie on March 27, 2008, 13:20:01 Strike has been suspended.
Title: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: Conner on March 27, 2008, 14:13:56 Strike has been suspended. ;DTitle: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: Lee on March 27, 2008, 21:52:15 Latest I Hate FGW blog post link, which may well have been composed before news filtered through about the suspension of the SWT strike.
http://ihatefirstgreatwestern.blogspot.com/2008/03/sarkozy-effect.html Title: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: Ollie on March 28, 2008, 00:09:24 Posted 14:38, strike called off just after midday I believe :)
Title: Re: SWT Drivers Strike (31/03/2008-03/04/2008) Post by: Lee on March 28, 2008, 00:14:04 Posted 14:38, strike called off just after midday I believe :) Perhaps I should have said "which may well have been composed before news filtered through to her." ;D To be fair, she probably didnt know that the strike had been suspended. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |