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RICHARD PENDLEBURY: At 84 years of age, he is of course older and frailer than in his firebrand, government-toppling, pomp. But Arthur Scargill is still militant - and still on the picket line.
They started and people are starting to get back into the habit of coming into offices or where ever the place of work is, maybe not five days a week but on a regular basis and this sets the whole thing back. it's bad news for us in the short term and he will really struggle to get through the cash flow of it with it having an impact on our staff, having to sort of reduce the man—hours over the days this week and if there was another strike, that would get worse but the structural damage it does to the railways just when we are getting back to something close to normal is really deeply depre...
Many of the strikers are colleagues we work with on a daily basis at stations and we very much see ourselves as part of the infrastructure and service offered to passengers so we understand why the unions would want to be fighting their corner for a the unions would want to be fighting their cornerfor a pay the unions would want to be fighting their corner for a pay increase given the way inflation is going and we also understand why network rail and the rail operators need to bring in some improvements, structural improvements to the railway, not least to try and stem the tide on the investme...
After last-ditch talks between unions and rail operators broke down here on Monday, the United Kingdom (UK) National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Wor
A strike and it regrets it, it says that its members are facing a crisis, and that crisis is driven by the fact that we are seeing these very high levels of inflation, and the pay deal that it says will be in effect a pay cut for its workers, along with what it says are other job cuts that the government or rail operators are trying to push through and changes to working hours which would mean more hours, so the union say this is a crisis for them and they cannot just see say this is a crisis for them and they cannotjust see it go by. what they cannot 'ust see it go by. what is labour they can...