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thismustbetheblog · 2 years
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Saw this shared on Twitter, and I have to say I wasn’t aware of all of this- but it shows the absolute justification the RMT have for a strike. Any one of these issues would be enough for a strike.
It would be good to share this as widely as possible.
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seeing a lot of discourse within the british media about these strikes, most notably the fact that several pundits and politicians are claiming that raising wages will "increase inflation".
to be completely blunt, this claim is absolute bullshit. wages haven't kept up with inflation since the 2007 financial crisis, and yet corporations (e.g. private rail companies) have reported record profits. so how the fuck is it acceptable for corporations to enjoy massive profits, but when workers demand pay rises to be able to afford to live, its somehow wrong?
and yes, i know strikes are disruptive, but that's kind of the fucking point. direct action, whether industrial or social only works when disruptive.
so yeah, support the strikes, support workers, and fuck the companies who refuse to pay them properly.
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drumlincountry · 2 years
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Strikes are a great opportunity to consciously appreciate what other people do for you without u noticing! Which is 1. Good for our common wellbeing (builds solidarity). 2. Good for your personal wellbeing (gratitude, hope, and connection are better headmates than despair, alienation, and loneliness). 3. Good for wellbeing of the strike and the union (directs the anger about the strike where they should be, aimed the people who are mistreating workers)
Like @ my UK folllowers. The rail strike is super fucking annoying right? You can't get where you need to go! Your life is more difficult right now. The flip side of that is these rail workers have been making your life quietly, subtly easier for years and years and years!
Capitalism loves to obscure these relationships - and it's true that they're mostly impersonal relationships. You're not FRIENDS with everyone who grows your food or makes your clothes or drives your trains or cleans your city.
You will never meet most of the people whose daily work supports your life - or most of the people who benefit from your work! But they're real. We're real. And we're really helping each other. That's a real connection. They're people you owe a lot to.
And these people who make your life better every day are suffering for it! They haven't been treated fairly or right.
It's easy to just get annoyed at the inconvenience of strike action, and God knows there are powerful forces urging that annoyance. But this is how we can regain some of our lost humanity, in this system of violence that crushes us all. This is what solidarity is. These people have been helping you. This is time to learn, connect, support. Help them back.
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pumpumdemsugah · 2 years
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' I don't even know your name '
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janemacneil · 1 year
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RMT strike, Lime Street, Liverpool, December 2022 
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robbielewis · 2 years
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What are the dates of the RMT Rail strikes?
The three strike days are Tuesday 21 June, Thursday 23 June and Saturday 25 June. RMT members will strike at Network Rail and 13 English train companies: Chiltern, Cross Country, Greater Anglia, LNER, East Midlands, c2c, Great Western, Northern, South Eastern, South Western, TransPennine, Avanti West Coast and West Midlands.
Because Network Rail staff – including signallers, who are crucial to the daily operation – work across Britain, the walkouts will affect Scotland and Wales, too.
In a separate but parallel dispute, RMT members on the London Underground will also strike on 21 June.
VIA:  The Guardian
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thismustbetheblog · 2 years
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The government are saying they won’t get involved with the RMT strikes, and then this - which will also cause way more disruption than 3 days of strike action.
Anyway, you can donate to the RMT strike fund here: https://www.rmt.org.uk/about/national-dispute-fund/
Their fight is our fight.
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apas-95 · 2 years
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the-happy-man · 1 year
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THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT: Lynch, the general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) union, said he believed a deal could be reached but that ministers had been absent since a meeting in mid-December…
He said: “We’ve outlined what we need to make progress; these are experienced people we’re dealing with, but the government simply will not give a mandate to the employers, Network Rail and the train operators that will allow this deal to be resolved.
“They’re sitting on their hands and are noted by their absence from this scene. They keep saying that they’re facilitating a deal. And I think it’s absolutely the opposite to that.”
Lynch added: “The executives who run the industry day on day are in despair at what the government is making them say in these talks.” [?]
The RMT leader said the union was looking for a settlement, with “sensible proposals”, but said the government was “out of their depth.”
Lynch said policy was behind problems on the railway. He said: “They’ve given us a structure that simply doesn’t work: abandoned franchising, they’ve abandoned their latest Greater British Rail [sic]… they stumble from one day to another and all they want to do is bash the unions.”
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afrobotics · 1 year
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Big Mick.
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pumpumdemsugah · 2 years
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The most frustrating thing about the rail strike, the Tory media keeps painting it as train drivers striking because train drivers typically earn more than the average UK wage and not the signaler, cleaners, ticket people etc who don't earn a lot
And it's on purpose. People that earn a lot more than train drivers are lying on purpose and there's kier acting like he's not the leader of a party called the LABOUR party
God help us.
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