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BE strike [Read 1st post before posting]

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  • #1082
    skeogh82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭skeogh82


    Yourself isit wrote: »
    Clearly there wasn't.

    Of course there wasn't - just goes to show the picketers complete and utter delusion!!


  • #1083
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Someone *might* actually do something now...it was only a sideshow when every place but Dublin was affected...

    No one (we all know you mean Ross) did anything about the Luas and DB strikes


  • #1084
    magentis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭magentis


    Well,fair play to the staff at the other CIE companies for supporting BE staff.This government is worse than useless.It appears that they want responsibility for nothing.


  • #1085
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    The best thing Ross can do is to stay out of it. Thankfully he's not some left, or centre left minister who believes in the magic money tree.

    Him getting involved will only lead to the ransacking of taxpayers money.


  • #1086
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    Lost support for them. I hope management win this, and start over with fresh staff.


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  • #1087
    kidneyfan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    Fair play to the Bus Eireann workers and fair play to the NBRU!


  • #1088
    thomasj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭thomasj


    magentis wrote:
    Well,fair play to the staff at the other CIE companies for supporting BE staff.This government is worse than useless.It appears that they want responsibility for nothing.

    Seems like bus eireann are blocking gates at depots and Dublin bus have gone to court to get them removed.


  • #1089
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    kidneyfan wrote: »
    Fair play to the Bus Eireann workers and fair play to the NBRU!

    NRBU are on RTE News Now and claim they knew nothing of this action.


  • #1090
    magentis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭magentis


    An attempted state sponsored race to the bottom,thats all this was,by a government on its last legs.


  • #1091
    54and56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,963 ✭✭✭54and56


    This is a last ditch desperate attempt to bully Shane Ross to get the cheque book out and keep these overpaid, inefficient BE staff in their cushy jobs. If it works we'll be turning the clock back 30 years.

    This is an opportunity to put down a clear marker that the taxpayer will no longer foot the bill for unionised workers in the public service and/or semi state companies who want inflated wages and to retain unproductive work practices.

    Mr Ross, your moment in history has arrived. Please grab it with both hands and make an example of these BE strikers.


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  • #1092
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,564 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    quadrifoglio verde wrote:
    The best thing Ross can do is to stay out of it. Thankfully he's not some left, or centre left minister who believes in the magic money tree.

    Strangely enough, there are actual magic money trees, but our politicians have been indoctrinated to think these methods and systems are the work of the devil or something of that kind


  • #1093
    Keyzer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    Disgusting behaviour this morning by Irish Rail and Dublin Bus - so many affected by the actions of so few.

    I couldn't give two sh1tes about picketing or your protest. I want to go to work.

    W@nkers...


  • #1094
    Kitsunegari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 313 ✭✭Kitsunegari


    kidneyfan wrote: »
    Fair play to the Bus Eireann workers and fair play to the NBRU!

    It's nothing to do with the Unions. O'Leary just told the staff to go back to work.

    Hopefully the staff involved are disciplined for this illegal action.


  • #1095
    kidneyfan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    Ross voted for his own pay rise.


    Je_suis_Jean wrote: »
    This is a last ditch desperate attempt to bully Shane Ross to get the cheque book out and keep these overpaid, inefficient BE staff in their cushy jobs. If it works we'll be turning the clock back 30 years.

    This is an opportunity to put down a clear marker that the taxpayer will no longer foot the bill for unionised workers in the public service and/or semi state companies who want inflated wages and to retain unproductive work practices.

    Mr Ross, your moment in history has arrived. Please grab it with both hands and make an example of these BE strikers.


  • #1096
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,292 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    thomasj wrote: »
    Seems like bus eireann are blocking gates at depots and Dublin bus have gone to court to get them removed.

    Absolutely scandalous carry on by BE, they've undermined the point of a union by doing this.


  • #1097
    sjb25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭sjb25


    kidneyfan wrote: »
    Fair play to the Bus Eireann workers and fair play to the NBRU!

    .


  • #1098
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    There assholes and deserve the sack after this.


  • #1099
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,495 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Can I picket NBRU offices for the wages I am losing this morning?


  • #1100
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    cherryghost wrote: »
    NRBU are on RTE News Now and claim they knew nothing of this action.

    Nothing wink wink nod nod


  • #1101
    thomasj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭thomasj


    On a 37 bus now to city . After nearly hour and a half.


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  • #1102
    NeitherJohn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 628 ✭✭✭NeitherJohn


    kidneyfan wrote: »
    Ross voted for his own pay rise.


    Like any unionised worker would if asked to vote on such a thing?


  • #1103
    Kitsunegari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 313 ✭✭Kitsunegari


    kidneyfan wrote: »
    If you don't support the strikers why should they give two sh1ts about your 'job'?

    On your bike!

    The illegal strikes and pickets today showed how much the staff actually care about the passengers. I think this is a massive error of judgement by the staff.

    They genuinely believe they can hold the country to ransom to keep up their unsustainable pay packets. It's hard to believe that they will have any support after this.


  • #1104
    magentis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,237 ✭✭✭magentis


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Strangely enough, there are actual magic money trees, but our politicians have been indoctrinated to think these methods and systems are the work of the devil or something of that kind

    Indeed!!

    Is that not why we pay taxes?

    For state services?

    Like the health service,prsi?

    Roads without tolls?

    Waste collection?

    Oh wait.......


  • #1105
    kidneyfan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    The Dublin Bus secondary picketing is completely illegal!

    Go on the Strikers!


  • #1106
    Keyzer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    Kitsunegari wrote: »
    The illegal strikes and pickets today showed how much the staff actually care about the passengers. I think this is a massive error of judgement by the staff.

    They genuinely believe they can hold the country to ransom to keep up their unsustainable pay packets. It's hard to believe that they will have any support after this.

    Zero support from here on in, zero.

    Sooner the entire transport system in this country is 100% fully privatised the better.


  • #1107
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    magentis wrote: »
    Well,fair play to the staff at the other CIE companies for supporting BE staff.This government is worse than useless.It appears that they want responsibility for nothing.

    Good man, and the best way to achieve that is to not give anyone notice of what they are going to do.

    I don't want my tax money spend on drivers who seem to strike as they please and don't give a ****é about the service they provide or there customers.

    The sooner DB is gradually privatised and then dismantled the better. If the drivers had some respect I would be in support of instead of this 'I don't give a fúck attitude', well I don't give a fúck either.

    Can you imagine if during the Tesco strike workers started picketing, Dunne's, Spars, Centra and Supervalus!


  • #1108
    kidneyfan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,279 ✭✭✭kidneyfan


    TallGlass wrote: »
    Good man, and the best way to achieve that is to not give anyone notice of what they are going to do.

    I don't want my tax money spend on drivers who seem to strike as they please and don't give a ****é about the service they provide or there customers.

    The sooner DB is gradually privatised and then dismantled the better. If the drivers had some respect I would be in support of instead of this 'I don't give a fúck attitude', well I don't give a fúck either.

    Can you imagine if during the Tesco strike workers started picketing, Dunne's, Spars, Centra and Supervalus!
    Opposite incentive though - in the private sector when you are on strike you WANT people to hit your employer in the pocket.

    Arguably public sector workers shouldn't have the right to strike.


  • #1109
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,564 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    magentis wrote:
    Is that not why we pay taxes?


    Our governments have been lead to believe that balancing the books is a good thing, this is complete nonsense, and in the words of Steve keen, it's bollocks! Our politicians have been indoctrinated by fundamentally flawed economic theories for decades and they're lost. This is causing irreversible damage to our societies, they seriously need to ditch econ 101!


  • #1110
    CrowdedHouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,115 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    https://twitter.com/Oireachtas_RX/status/847191554074791936

    Seven Worlds will Collide



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  • #1111
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,124 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Keyzer wrote: »
    Sooner the entire transport system in this country is 100% fully privatised the better.

    :rolleyes: Yep the panacea for all ills...


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