bearishbull
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aonfocaleile said:I don't think its fair to tar all semi-state unions with the one brush. In fairness, its appalling that they can go on unofficial strikes like that but you don't see other semi-state workers doing the same. I hope the company sticks to their guns and deducts the time lost from their wages. It puts public sector employees in a difficult situation as well - you don't have to work in the private sector to use public transport. My sympathies to anyone who was inconvenienced by it.
Grizzly said:Travelling toward town from Blackrock on the DART during the week. The ticker on the train that is supposed to advise you of the next stop was reading "next stop Greystones".
jdwex said:Irish Rail are not blamesless in this. They KNEW LAST WEEK that introducing those trains would cause this action. They did not warn the public because it suits them politically to inconvenience the public
Ron Burgundy said:so what should be done then, buy the trains and just leave them there until the drivers are in the mood to drive them, the labour court made a ruling on jan 12 which stated that drivers had already been paid for the introduction of these as far back as 2000.
jdwex said:I don't support the drivers at all.
What I am saying is that Irish Rail knew last week there would be industrial action this week, and in my view deliberately omitted to warn passengers.
Why are you blaming Irish Rail? This is 100% the fault of the driversSarah said:On speaking with irish rail i asked if buses were to be put on today for their customers and they said no as Bus Eireann and local transport can not loan out the amount of buses needed at such short notice...!!! When i told them that the strike had been on since yest and they should have presumed and prempted that it would continue today or at least severly disrupt services and they could have arranged something they had nothing to say so i pushed a little harder and asked if passengers were to be reimbursed for the extra traveling expences i ws told yes as long as i send in a copy of my annual pass and any bus/petrol/luas recipts i had to encur to get to work!...might ease the blow a little as once again im stranded today after getting a lift from Athy as far as the red cow and then to the Luas and am already stressing about getting home! Might be worth calling them and checking about the reimbursment but i was told yes! Was also told that after the cancellation of talks this morning ...the suitation for the rest of this week at least is not looking good and was told not for the first time to "Cross my fingers & hope for the best"!!!!!At the moment they cant even guess if the trains in two hours time are going to run!!!
Strange - I thought that the members paid their subs voluntarily and could cancel their subscriptions at any time if they aren't happy that they get value for money?Ron Burgundy said:I hate unions, all of them, they take money every week from hunderds of thousands of people and do damn all with it apart from the cosy weekends away for the delegates
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