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kingshankly · 31-03-2017 08:39AM

Collie D wrote: »

After ten years on Boards you've probably just posted the most idiotic think I've read.

As you said yourself: On your bike

Great advice "on your bike" in the day that's in it

magentis · 31-03-2017 08:39AM

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!

So the staff should just roll over and take massive pay cuts for the passengers???This is a unionised work force standing together.

I wouldnt blame tesco workers if other mandate memebers joined them either.

Great to see solidarity like this.

Yourself isit · 31-03-2017 08:40AM

Keyzer wrote: »

Zero support from here on in, zero.

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

No it's not.

roosterman71 · 31-03-2017 08:42AM

Yourself isit · 31-03-2017 08:42AM

nosilver wrote: »

I really hope that Bus Eireann go into liquidation.

Management will have no issue getting jobs, drivers will ahve a big issue.

SCUM.

The private operators will hire the drivers. Doubt they will need the management.

weldoninhio · 31-03-2017 08:43AM

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

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

The subvented BE routes already makes a profit?! Why give it more money??

Mebuntu · 31-03-2017 08:43AM

Warning to all private bus operators. Make sure your fleets are secure. These union thugs and bullies are capable of anything.

pc7 · 31-03-2017 08:43AM

magentis wrote: »

Great to see solidarity like this.

Solidarity was voting next week to see if they would go on strike with them, following the process that gives unions legitimacy. What's happening today completely undermines the reason for a union.

ThisRegard · 31-03-2017 08:44AM

kidneyfan wrote: »

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

The NBRU claim they had nothing to do with this and have asked their members to stop doing it, so yeah, fair play to the NBRU on calling them out.

Nekarsulm · 31-03-2017 08:46AM

Of course Private operators are still running, Shane. That's how they earn money to stay in business!
Hopefully there will be opportunities for many more of them, very soon.

BigBulldog · 31-03-2017 08:46AM

Absolute pack of pricks. My friend has to come for a funeral today and this crap is pulled. Hope the government bury this scummy company and the petulant workers.

Seph503 · 31-03-2017 08:46AM

ThisRegard wrote: »

The NBRU claim they had nothing to do with this and have asked their members to stop doing it, so yeah, fair play to the NBRU on calling them out.

Since these guys are engaging in illegal action, is there a means to remove their strike pay since they are not striking under the unions terms?

loyatemu · 31-03-2017 08:48AM

ThisRegard wrote: »

The NBRU claim they had nothing to do with this and have asked their members to stop doing it, so yeah, fair play to the NBRU on calling them out.

there's no way the union didn't know this was going to happen - they're picketing depots all over the country, it's clearly orchestrated.

thomasj · 31-03-2017 08:50AM

List of Dublin bus services not running at the moment

Routes 11, 17, 18, 44, 46a, 54a, 59, 63 and 84

Routes 27a, 27b, 29a, 31/a, 31b, 32, 32x, 42, 43 and 130

Routes 111, 114, 118, 120, 122, 142, 145, 220, 236, 238, 239 and 270

Taken from Dublin bus notice

cherryghost · 31-03-2017 08:51AM

thomasj wrote: »

List of Dublin bus services not running at the moment

Routes 11, 17, 18, 44, 46a, 54a, 59, 63 and 84

Routes 27a, 27b, 29a, 31/a, 31b, 32, 32x, 42, 43 and 130

Routes 111, 114, 118, 120, 122, 142, 145, 220, 236, 238, 239 and 270

Taken from Dublin bus notice

Plenty more than that

ThisRegard · 31-03-2017 08:52AM

loyatemu wrote: »

there's no way the union didn't know this was going to happen - they're picketing depots all over the country, it's clearly orchestrated.

Probably not organised by the NBRU though, I would guess SIPTU, who are suspiciously quiet this morning, had a hand in it.

Yourself isit · 31-03-2017 08:53AM

loyatemu wrote: »

there's no way the union didn't know this was going to happen - they're picketing depots all over the country, it's clearly orchestrated.

Orchestrated is not the same as authorised.

thomasj · 31-03-2017 08:53AM

cherryghost wrote:

Plenty more than that

I'm guessing they're the routes that didn't have buses out before the pickets came up.

monument · 31-03-2017 08:53AM

kidneyfan wrote: »

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

On your bike!

Hollister11 wrote: »

There assholes and deserve the sack after this.

Keyzer wrote: »

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...

BigBulldog wrote: »

Absolute pack of pricks. My friend has to come for a funeral today and this crap is pulled. Hope the government bury this scummy company and the petulant workers.

Banned.

All for 24 hours.

BoatMad · 31-03-2017 08:55AM

Let the whole CIE group ROT. its the last refuge of Trotskyite union head bangers

thomasj · 31-03-2017 08:56AM

Full list up now

http://www.dublinbus.ie/News-Centre/General-News/Service-Disruption-Friday-31-March/

magentis · 31-03-2017 08:57AM

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

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

Spot on.

This clearly shows the government agenda.From 50 million to 35 million,and they expect the staff to carry the can.Whilst luas drivers get paid much more for doing a much handier job.

Heisenberg1 · 31-03-2017 08:57AM

Fair play to them we can't have a situation were it's a race to the bottom. The government should have got the finger out and restored the cuts that they have imposed on all the company's over the last number of years. The chickens have come home to roost!

€140 million on a new central bank why ? Nobody bats an eye, stunning views of the Liffey they say, on the site were Anglo was to be built oh the irony.

Support the workers!

_Kaiser_ · 31-03-2017 08:59AM

Shane Ross on Radio 1 calling for talks but saying he won't be intervening with the cheque book.

Fair play Minister

Heisenberg1 · 31-03-2017 09:00AM

Mebuntu wrote: »

Have a look at the photo in this article. Click on it to make it larger. Tells you plenty about what we are dealing with.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/thousands-of-passengers-facing-chaos-as-strikers-get-support-from-dublin-bus-and-irish-rail-drivers-35567464.html

Honest workers trying to keep the terms and conditions is what I see.

monument · 31-03-2017 09:00AM

loyatemu wrote: »

there's no way the union didn't know this was going to happen - they're picketing depots all over the country, it's clearly orchestrated.

Which can be done with a Whatsapp group these days, it doesn't need the top guys in the union to even know about it.

It could be honestly not knowing or not wanting to know.

In any case, the BE workers who have pulled this have lost any support they had from a lot of people this morning.

BoatMad · 31-03-2017 09:00AM

magentis wrote: »

Spot on.

This clearly shows the government agenda.From 50 million to 35 million,and they expect the staff to carry the can.Whilst luas drivers get paid much more for doing a much handier job.

leaving aside that BE also received 50 million EXTRA , for PSO bus replacements

and leaving aside that PSO services broke even as they are supposed to do

Expressway is loosing money to private operators on routes where it has competition

and you suggest just handling them MORE money , so in fact they can just drive private operators out of business by the act of state support

never going to happen

nothing in this dispute is similar to LUAS.

ThisRegard · 31-03-2017 09:00AM

magentis wrote: »

Spot on.

This clearly shows the government agenda.From 50 million to 35 million,and they expect the staff to carry the can.Whilst luas drivers get paid much more for doing a much handier job.

They work for a private company. And you can be sure if the operator was in the financial situation BE is in now the axe would have fallen a lot sooner and harder by now.

magentis · 31-03-2017 09:00AM

BoatMad wrote: »

Let the whole CIE group ROT. its the last refuge of Trotskyite union head bangers

They have been doing that anyway.

Take a look at Irish rail.

So understaffed that the company itself admitted line safety is compromised as a result.

No staff on the trains bar the driver.

No staff in the stations,allowing them to decend into no go area centres for anti social behaviour and vandalism.

BoatMad · 31-03-2017 09:02AM

magentis wrote: »

They have been doing that anyway.

Take a look at Irish rail.

So understaffed that the company itself admitted line safety is compromised as a result.

No staff on the trains bar the driver.

No staff in the stations,allowing them to decend into no go area centres for anti social behaviour and vandalism.

Why would you have staff on a train these days . staff are not responsible for policing anti social behaviour

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