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Siptu to ballot for strike action at IE

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    #62
    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    He must do right buy the taxpayer? Has he forgot that Irish Rail staff pay tax as well and cut in wages means less tax for him?


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    #63
    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 28,987 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    he's a politician, say whatever to make yourself look good with the public, all the while not caring one jot about the tax payer or customers, so he's not going to let facts like irish rail staff pay tax also to get in the way, if he cared about the customers he would make sure there is enough money to actually run everything including the removal of short formed darts and so on.

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #64
    mikemac1
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    end of the road wrote: »
    if he cared about the customers he would make sure there is enough money to actually run everything including the removal of short formed ddarts and so on.

    If drivers demanded more money for eight carriage darts will they accept it's fair to accept less money for short DARTs? :p


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    #65
    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 28,987 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    If drivers demanded more money for eight carriage darts will they accept it's fair to accept less money for short DARTs?

    why don't you ask them? i'm sure there must be a driver or to on here, i would suggest that the size of the train and the amount of wage is irrelevant to each other, drivers get the same wage long train or short train and rightly so as otherwise things get complicated when sorting out wages, the size of trains is down to the amount of subsidy which keeps getting cut as the government seem to think you can keep cutting it and the same amount of service will be provided, it eventually won't, and we'l all lose

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #66
    Infini
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    mikemac1 wrote: »
    If drivers demanded more money for eight carriage darts will they accept it's fair to accept less money for short DARTs? :p

    Not driving a train unless theyre being paid more sounds a little off to me. Think it was before my time but maybe there was liability issues or something involved as well matters like this strike tend to be made to look as trivial as possible to the public to try and undermine workers while avoiding the additional factors that are inflaming the situation.

    And here we were thinking paschal might be less of a gobshyte but he seems be going the way of the varadatard. Honestly the guys wouldnt wanna actually strike if there was an alternative but theyre not gonna be railroaded into cuts at a time when the cost of living is going up and on top of a 6yr pay freeze and additional taxes cutting into that since the wankerbanker crash.

    Besides the whole The measures dont need to be implimented either they need to fix the funding so the rail is being funded properly which they havent for a number of years I mean the workers agreed to previous cuts and the goverment simply just cut the subsidy after they were agreed thats deliberate undermining of a service in any language.


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    #67
    Hilly Bill
    Registered Users Posts: 6,039 ✭✭✭Hilly Bill


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    If drivers demanded more money for eight carriage darts will they accept it's fair to accept less money for short DARTs? :p

    They should be told that :). They get paid to drive a train not per carriage and they are not expected to push it :). Its that kind of carry on from drivers and per way that has the company in the state its in.


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