Thursday - May 12, 2011
union holds london to ransom … guess who wins?
Typical, innit?
Just another reason to hate unions. I have heard this Crow fellow on the radio, and he’s more left then Marx and all that crowd.
For me, even though he doesn’t always look like this, this is the face of ALL unions as far as I’m concerned.
Militant rail staff’s 10% pay rise as ‘ransom payment’ to prevent strikes during Olympics
By JASON GROVES and BECKY BARROWMilitant transport workers were last night handed a 10 per cent pay rise as part of a ‘ransom payment’ to prevent strikes during next year’s Olympics.
Network Rail agreed the astonishing rise amid fears that industrial action could wreck the London Games.
But MPs accused the firm of caving in to hardliner Bob Crow, the head of the Rail Maritime Transport union, who has led a series of crippling strikes in recent years.
The deal, which has the private backing of ministers, will see 10,000 signallers, engineers, customer service staff and other employees across the country receive a 5.2 per cent pay rise this year, backdated to January, and a further rise of inflation plus 0.5 per cent from next January.
On top of that, staff involved in the Olympics will enjoy a £3.50 an hour bonus for each shift they work during the Games. Overall that will be worth about £500 a head, said Mr Crow.
Network Rail has also signed away any right to dismiss a worker during the Olympics – whatever they do wrong.
The extraordinary arrangement was condemned by Tory MPs, who accused Network Rail and ministers of giving in to blackmail.
Dominic Raab, who is pressing for new strike laws, said: ‘The British public is being blackmailed. There’s no justification for giving rail staff a 10 per cent pay increase plus bonus, whilst pay is frozen across the public sector.
‘Yet again, the RMT has held the public to ransom – this time under the threat of disrupting the Olympics.’
Too bad the powers that be wouldn’t stand up to the union and let em do their worst. So let em wreck the Olympics. It might just wreck the union too, and that would be more then worth the trouble and monies spent.
Oh wait ... we might then miss that awe inspiring sport of endurance and strategy ... Curling. Gak.
Posted by peiper
on 05/12/2011 at 07:18 AM
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