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  • #1052
    CINCLANTFLT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭CINCLANTFLT


    This is the 2nd Friday in a row that my work plans have been impacted... shower of &;&€;()'s!


  • #1053
    sjb25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭sjb25


    NBRU Dermot o Leary says he has no idea what's going on and no members of nbru should be picketing IR or BE and members should leave them picket


  • #1054
    hinault
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,932 ✭✭✭hinault


    Railway station at Heuston being picketted at the moment. I'm at Heuston right now. I'm due to travel to Portlaoise by train and IE are saying that no outward/inward bound rail journeys can be guaranteed today :mad:


  • #1055
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,471 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    hinault wrote: »
    Railway station at Heuston being picketted at the moment. I'm at Heuston right now. I'm due to travel to Portlaoise by train and IE are saying that no outward/inward bound rail journeys can be guaranteed today :mad:

    DublinCoach run a fairly regular service to Portlaoise if that's any help.


  • #1056
    thomasj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭thomasj


    Apparently it's bus eireann picketing at Irish rail stations


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  • #1057
    Gavinz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 171 ✭✭Gavinz


    Sack the lot of them. I'm sure that bunch of thickos would be snapped up in the private sector :rolleyes:


  • #1058
    hinault
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,932 ✭✭✭hinault


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    DublinCoach run a fairly regular service to Portlaoise if that's any help.

    I'll drive it if need be.

    Thanks for the tip.

    Just wanted to warn intending rail travellers today about the virtual lockdown at the moment here at Heuston station.


  • #1059
    Patser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,390 ✭✭✭Patser


    sjb25 wrote: »
    NBRU Dermot o Leary says he has no idea what's going on and no members of nbru should be picketing IR or BE and members should leave them picket

    What radio station was this?


  • #1060
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,471 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    thomasj wrote: »
    Apparently it's bus eireann picketing at Irish rail stations

    Not alone it seems.. Morning Ireland on RTE Radio 1 said that there are train drivers picketing alongside them in Cork with handwritten signs.


  • #1061
    Mebuntu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭Mebuntu


    NBRU Dermot o Leary says he has no idea what's going on and no members of nbru should be picketing IR or BE and members should leave them picket
    If he is serious he should expel them all from his union.

    Sad that weak-minded IR/DB staff act like sheep and react to what are blatantly illegal pickets. Is there anyone with any backbone in their ranks?


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  • #1062
    kingshankly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,047 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    Would advice commuters who got in this morning to start planning how to get home
    The only reason a lot of earlier city bound services ran as the be drivers showed up to picket too late (couldn't even get up in time )and train drivers had already got to work


  • #1063
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    If you dont have a ticket with Citylink etc, dont bother trying unless you're getting on the first stop, they're not stopping at subsequent stops.


  • #1064
    thomasj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭thomasj


    A 39 bus has just passed me. First I've seen this morning and I've been out over an hour


  • #1065
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Just when you think you couldn't think any less of SIPTU.Dregs.


  • #1066
    skeogh82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭skeogh82


    Picketers in clontarf being confrtonted by commuters and claiming there was notice given!!


  • #1067
    sjb25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭sjb25


    Patser wrote: »
    What radio station was this?

    Newstalk


  • #1068
    kingshankly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,047 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    Some day ahead for the Irish rail Twitter guy


  • #1069
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    sjb25 wrote: »
    NBRU Dermot o Leary says he has no idea what's going on and no members of nbru should be picketing IR or BE and members should leave them picket

    Wouldn't believe that man as far as i could throw him.


  • #1070
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Just when you think you couldn't think any less of SIPTU.Dregs.

    The unions haven't authorised this.

    I'm sympathetic to BE workers but secondary picketing should be illegal.


  • #1071
    Yourself isit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭Yourself isit


    skeogh82 wrote: »
    Picketers in clontarf being confrtonted by commuters and claiming there was notice given!!

    Clearly there wasn't.


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  • #1072
    Kh1993
    Closed Accounts Posts: 443 ✭✭Kh1993


    Harristown buses that are already out are running in places a 17a driver told me. Some going back to garages after their run however.


  • #1073
    GhostyMcGhost
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,347 ✭✭✭GhostyMcGhost


    skeogh82 wrote: »
    Picketers in clontarf being confrtonted by commuters and claiming there was notice given!!

    Great. They need to be told in no uncertain terms that the public do not support any of the drivers on strike

    Absolute joke. Shane Ross has to get involved now. He needs to come along not with a chequebook but as a mediator in this dispute


  • #1074
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Yourself isit wrote: »
    The unions haven't authorised this.

    I'm sympathetic to BE workers but secondary picketing should be illegal.

    I'm sure SIPTU know well what was going to happen
    https://twitter.com/SIPTUunionmade/status/847684483394322434


  • #1075
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    In any working normal functioning job if you decided to do what Dublin Bus and the Dart drivers have done this morning you would be at minimum be receiving a formal verbal warning.

    I hope someone follows up with the above and the drivers should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.

    I also hope not one cent from my tax gose towards and I hope they privatatise the whole thing as far as I am concerned. This is happening far to regularly with drivers throwing there toys out of the pram.


  • #1076
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,508 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Disgusting from both BE and IR workers. Pityful, they will get no luck out of this disgraceful behaviour and I wouldn't be surprised if they're all fecked onto the dole.

    Not that I'd care at this stage.


  • #1077
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    The deluded Brid Smith is believing ​it's now a National Transport Strike.


  • #1078
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,471 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    JCX BXC wrote: »
    Disgusting from both BE and IR workers. Pityful, they will get no luck out of this disgraceful behaviour and I wouldn't be surprised if they're all fecked onto the dole.

    Not that I'd care at this stage.

    Unlikely... at this point there are no doubt a lot of calls between CIE execs and Business leaders to Government Buildings. I'd be willing to bet that despite the Government holding firm till now, this will break them. :(

    And so the cycle will continue


  • #1079
    thomasj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭thomasj


    Told by a driver that Dublin bus have gone to court.


  • #1080
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    The amount of ignorance on Twitter is amazing. People wanting DB chiefs heads on spears -_-


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  • #1081
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    Ross should intervene as the owner of CIE informing them to take action against this wild cat action by issuing warning and informing CIE to sue the unions involved


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