Solidarity with the workers, in the railways and across the whole economy. The solution to the cost of living crisis is lower profits and higher wages.
@@pithikoulis Wrong. Higher ticket prices are part of government rules on how the train industry works. They go up by RPI every year - 11%. And then they want to give workers a pay rise of 4%, and of course, trouser the difference.
@@basilmagnanimous7011 I agree, throw your degree away when you don't get paid appropriately for your work. Throw your future and those of your dependents away, because CEOs need to be paid millions. I agree, makes total sense to freely enslave yourself by your overlords. Definitely communist.
I wonder how long it took them to find selfish people moaning about strikes for them to push their narrative. Solidarity with rail workers and fair play on unions
They legally cant do that and rail workers (not talking abt the other unions) are overstaffed and overpayed, a train driver makes £66k plus overtime and bonuses
@@basilmagnanimous7011 Not you sticking up for the billionaires. The greed is so out of control, people are STRUGGLING to live whilst the CEOS boast about record breaking profits. We're experiencing a cost of living CRISIS that is going to get worse come winter, stuck in the middle of brexit, feeling effects of the Ukraine war, on the brink of another recession, our government is ridden with out of touch rich boys. We NEED change, Change only happens with disruption. Change only happens with disruption.
'Its about putting the users of this service first' I didn't hear them saying this when they made train travel more expensive then air travel. I didn't hear them saying this when they privatised the profit making areas and left the public to find the rail infrastructure. Disgraceful, shameful, lying government. Get rid of them ASAP.
The private firms who took over in Thatcher's era make a fortune in profits but pay for the workforce is rubbish and they now want to downgrade maintenance .Ticket sales , cleaners , guards , are paid a pittance for today .Drivers are the equal of pilots and have a huge responsibility .The Government has a nerve .they do not serve the public , get paid , have expenses , a second house Oh yes and a pay rise ..PS can we know the salary of the CEO of Network rail etc etc etc
If you wish to sell a particular commodity, is it not wisest to do your best to provide it in the most attritive manner that you possibly can? It may be that it is not particularly attractive not to provide what you claim you are willing and able to provide, always supposing that anyone wants to buy the commodity that you are selling
While Kier starmer shows what a poor choice he is for the Labour party sacking Sam shame on starmer he needs to be replaced he s shown he s not for the workers
I am thankful for what my union in the Netherlands did when they negotiated our severance pay with my US employer when they decided to close down their presence in the Netherlands. We, the staff and the staff representatives, delegated our union to negotiate the terms. The union doesn't have to put every offer the employer makes up for voting. They only have to keep the staff representatives informed of the progress of the negotiation. I was so gratefull that I continued paying my monthly dues to the union for 12 years even after I left the Netherlands to work elsewhere.
From where do you get the idea that anyone has a what you call a "right to strike"? - Is it some sort of tenet of some sort of religion?- What is a "right? How exactly is a "right" defined? You have not the faintest idea? - This you are about to illustrate by signally failing to define a right.
@@vhawk1951kl Rights are legal, social or principles based in law. You’re correct there is no specific “right” under a law act that empowers one to strike. However, there are statutory law protections (principles) for the organisers of these kinds of industrial actions (or strikes). As a last tool to negotiate, union members based on those principles in statutory law are protected and have the right to take industrial action (or strike) - it is this that I support.
@@ACsPianoCorner You see? You immediately fall into circularity and begging the question, that is why you cam up with what even you can see is empty waffle or meaningless blather.
@@boredphysicist Yeah sure. Every cleaner, caterer, signaller and electrician working for the railways is on £66k right? Are you ok? Most of the RMT members earn less than 30k. And the dispute is not only over pay.
Labour should be dominating on this issue. They are the LABOUR party FFS. Instead Kier Starmer is running scared of Rupert Murdoch. He's a coward and a sell-out. 😡 Well done Sam Tarry ✊
I guess the problem is the last time they attempted to do that in 2019, the country basically ruined them for doing so, and Labour cannot afford to lose the next election. In many ways it’s unfortunately the result of an electorate who are determined to vote against their own interests, and Labour essentially only having one real attempt left to gain power. They seem too scared to do anything.
You need to think more strategically. If Labour win the next GE, how do they negotiate with the unions when the Transport Minister had been on same picket lines in the recent past?
@@okiamyacine664 Corporate bootlickers like you always pretend during times like this that you're concerrned about low paid, non unionized workers not being able to get to their low paid jobs. The irony never fails to make me laugh.
Train drivers refuse to accept some of them being made redundant despite the fact they are redundant, modern rail doesnt need as many drivers but our push for modernisation has been hamstrung by greedy unions run by luddites
@@stephenjon3502 actually a significant amount of trains could be run without drivers but the drivers unions force them to not, look at the Paris metro where multiple lines are driverless
@@boredphysicist That's France fella. Auto running has been on a few underground lines for years. You still need a driver for operational problems and defect handling. Driverless trains are probably about 30 years away.
The real issue is with retraining if people are no longer needed for these jobs how do we retrain them for new work? Wheres the investment? Maybe everything shouldn't be so cut throat when people are out of work for a while.
When you suddenly realize that voting for Tories in power for 12+ years is a bad idea. Wait, but they are still in power: trust the Tories at your own peril.
@@toriesdontgettazered7464 "whataboutery" the usual reply from people who don't like to be told the truth that the Labour party are just as bad as the Tory party when it all boils down to it 😂
The trains have earned a fortune over the years packing us in like sardines in such a way that trains were never disign to run and they wouldn't have done their costing based on such a system.
Well done you guys. Fight for your RIGHTS. Let the Ministers who are having a huge salary & enjoying their wealth take notice of your hardship. May God hear your appeals. Yea, let those who DEPEND on your rail services also STAND UP WITH YOU & speak up for you guys.
Which if it were any more than empty talk or chattering like a monkey would consist of contributing £100 a week to the strike fund all the relevant union, would it not? Yeah, right. Talk is cheap and boy do you talk titch.
And your "solidarity" - which is no more than chattering like a monkey on this, takes what exact form? - Are you paying the wages that they are not earning? Yeah, right. You *talk* a good game but actually *do* nothing, is that not exactly correct? The plain fact of the matter is that there is nothing that you can do nor are you prepared to do anything, is it not? Exactly how many of those on strike do you know personally and with whom you are intimate and familiar in detail? Yeah, right. You keep it as vague and sentimental as possible titch, that way you don't have to actually*Do*anything. Tee hee. It turns out that nobody can eat your religious mumbo-jumbo but that does not prevent you from indulging your taste for it.
This is the result of 10 years of cuts (in real terms). Government own website: "Around 40% of working-age adults in workless families were in *relative poverty* before housing costs in 2019/20" "Around one in six people in the UK are in relative low income before housing costs (BHC), rising to around one in five once we account for housing costs (AHC)."
energy companies back in public ownership too! We live in a capitalist society these companies will always try to make as much profit as they can, while paying the least wage they can get away with
The lack of empathy with some people who are clearly "alright Jack" and some who are also struggling, clearly highlights ignorance and selfishness. Imagine how they'd complain if the poor nurses or hospital staff went on strike.
They ARE going on strike, the dates are yet to be announced but they have been balloted and have overwhelminly voted to strike. It will be the first strike of its kind in the NHS. It will be interesting to see how all these ignorant people who say things like protests are blocking people getting to hospital (while ignoring the ambulance crisis and crumbilng nhs infrastructure) or complaining about rail workers getting better pay than NHS workers... I will be very interested to see how many of the support NHS workers striking for better pay and conditions... will they still be vocal about the hospitals and NHS staff then?
@@stephenjon3502 I never said that the nurses pay has anything to do with that of the rail workers Stephen, I don't know where this idiotic inference came from. A general strike might help for sure.
10:00, that women is ignorant. This is why working class is screwed. What RMT is doing RIGHT NOW is fighting not only their pay raises but they are FIGHTING for the working class. RMT is showing the other working people that WE HAVE THE POWER to change things but if you just go along with corrupt system, YOU WILL LIVE YOUR LIFE POOR until you die poor.
@@AzadAli-re2fz One channel. They all should be questioning how much they get paid. How much is paid out to investors. The people who get you from point a to point b shouldnt be the ones being shamed.
It will be delt with the same why the tried to stop protesting around parliament, instead of shouting you sing. Instead of striking you just do collective none production day, turn up and everyone doesn't do there job.
@@redmozzy. Yes absolutely, we need a clear distinction between the two main parties. Unfortunately I don’t think Keir is the right person to take that forward. It’s time he nailed his colours to the mast. 👍. All the best.
A sporting event bring lots of tourists to the area, giving local businesses that are struggling during a crisis more income. That means more families fed well.
The public mood has shifted. People support the strike and the RMT, Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey are the most popular men in the country right now. Nobody wants Starmer Tory-lite.
Who is that tool of a reporter? The derisory tone when talking to workers and Labour is absent when tugging his forelock to rail bosses and the government. Why didn’t he ask tough about bloated profits taken out of the industry?
I'm a rail worker, and the last thing we want is to disrupt the lives of our customers! Believe it or not, the average train driver out there actually does care about the customers. But right now, we're desperately afraid that there won't be anything left of the railway in 2 years if this government gets its way, and that's why we (and our colleagues in other sectors of the railway) are opting for temporary disruption as opposed to the permanent disruption that will be there if the government dessimates the railway like it wants to! Remember, this isn't just about pay. This is about job security, safety, etc. As it stands now, almost every train I drive is delayed because of countless speed restrictions on the line because Network Rail aren't being allowed to invest money in fixing things. If the government cuts 2000 jobs as it wants to do, the infrastructure will collapse, and worst case scenario is that people will die because trains will derail (which we're already close to as some parts of the tracks are so bad, we can't go through at line speed any more). The government also wants to close all ticket offices, and get rid of all train guards. This will make the railway so unsafe! We've already seen at stations where there are no staff, drug dealers and gangs take over, intimidating passengers, vandalising stations, etc. Not to mention extremely unsafe dispatch methods. My company has already got rid of guards. When I pull into a station with a 12 car train, with 800 people on board, and I've got 16 tiny cameras as my only means of checking the side of the train, with sunlight obscuring the view, bugs covering the camera lenses, and the cheapest technology the company can get away with so the cameras blur and flicker all the time, someone could easily fall down the side of the train and I wouldn't know. Not to mention, there will be no one to assists disabled or elderly passengers. Our railway could be so incredibly good, but this government seems to want to destroy it completely for their own short-term profit! Sorry, for such a long write-up, but please remember that this is WAY more than just a fight for a pay rise. This is fight for the future of the railway itself! And I guarantee you, if we lose this one, the government will be after the NHS next!
But you do realise that every time you guys strike the sooner the government would want to automate the entire system right? And I get it you're going through a hard time but you're not the only ones. Machines and other automated systems definitely won't call in sick, demand pay rises, or go on strike. And I'm frankly sick and tired of not being able to see my family and friends and doing the things that I need to do Simply because you think you're the only ones owed more money.
8% over 3 years, He really thinks that's acceptable in the present climate? Well his 600k salary really seems unpalatable by anyone with any sense of justice.
@@krob2327 Track workers 20-23k, platform staff 17.5k-27k, even trainee drivers are 23k, 38k after 1 year, 43k year 2, then 53k, The Elite Drivers may earn 60k on the big routes, many local drivers do not. Drivers do some of the most antisocial hours you could dream up, a sign on time of 04:30am, which means arising from sleep at 0330am. They have to witness suicidal people jumping infront of their train travelling at speeds of over 50mph, people think a train drivers job is easy and fun and doesn't deserve a salary of 60k. I certainly wouldn't work on a platform, risking getting my head caved in, Verbally abused, or spat on during covid, just because someones drunk to much and want's to fist someone because their train is 30 minutes late, Just not worth 17-23k.
@@handheldmerchant7671 wages have stagnated for sure. Look at us and the Eu vs the USA since the recession. They recovered we didn’t. I just don’t see how the Trains are going to be funded going forwards. They most likely won’t reach full capacity again so it will have to change. People are taking voluntary redundancy etc . I do understand the low wage issue. It’s a joke all across the economy.
@@krob2327 people need to stand up and be counted when the £500 million profit the railways made last year went straight to the shareholders and a £600,000 directors salary, not to mention the 130 billion the government are sinking into the HS2 black hole. Money is swilling around but not for a workers payrise.
When senior managers and MPs show pay restraint I'll vote in favour of my pay offer as I did during covid in solidarity with those who weren't fortunate to have the job security and conditions I have. Until then I'll continue to encourage colleagues to use their collective position and refuse it. The only way forward from austerity and the wealth moving upwards is to say we won't accept trickle down BS and we want a bottom up approach.
Bottom up approach is never going to happen. It's just not the way the world works. The rich and powerful get to make the rules and the people at the bottom have to struggle to find the a way to survive. In the mean time, the solution for the rich is to pit people against each other. Devide and conquer.
@@adrianmargean3402 yes I agree mate I talk in an ideal world where we could make the change happen by some democratic means but unfortunately we don't live under a system which would allow it. It hasn't evolved far enough from the 17th century and instead of gentleman's sons representing us we now have the sons of corporations and the banks. We need some new levelers but that would take a revolution.
The lazy dossers couldn’t work in convulsions ,they are earning more than they deserve already . Absolute shower of Bolsheviks the lot of them holding the public to ransom . The union leaders should be arrested for sedition & subversive activities .
Not a single comment from any interviewer or interviewee on whether rail workers should actually get a rise and that would be another good way to "put a stop" to this rather than finding new legislation to stamp out their right to protest and say how unfair it is on the public and the country and how selfish they're being etc... Not a word about the general disparity of wealth that is behind the whole thing.
All these stories are perfectly crafted to ignore the massive elephant in the room. Privitatisation in this country must've followed the Soviet way, it's all it's done is create profiterring monopolies and everyone apart from the top 1% are worse off.
a general strike is what is necessary , and ally it to mass non payment of utility bills (cancel direct debits to make this work ) for those also not in work to show solidarity and achieve real change to reverse 12 years of tory theft of our wealth
I hear people saying: "Well I also didn't get raises, nurses and doctors are also earning less". Yes, exactly. They should also earn more but sadly don't have a strong union. Remember what unions and socialists got you: abolishment of child labour, 5 instead of 7 day work week, 8 instead of 12 hour shifts, paid leave... These things were not brought about on its own. Strike as long as is necessary. We support you!
And Mick comes in at the end to sweep up all the BS and drop some truths. Good. The general public needs to hear this. We never have a voice in media. Mick speaks to and for a larger number of the public than Labour and the Tories do.
I'd like to know what the pay increase (inc bonuses) for the CEO of Network Rail was between 2021 and 2022; I bet your bottom dollar it was more than 4%.
Damn, how the worm has turned. Yrs ago, comments would have shown the public at large unhappy at the strikers. Now, support is almost universal in recognition that we are all being taken for a ride as inequality widens,
Who cares about "reduced revenues" if the company is still making a huge NET profit that's going straight to the top. NET profit needs to be shared in a far more equitable way. People earning hundreds of thousands have no grounds to tell people who earn 25k-40k that they can't get a pay rise. Every time I see economic issues being discussed on Legacy Media, they always ignore the NET, shareholder dividends, CEO bonus' etc
so many people criticize the workers, but no one criticizes the CEOs and shareholders who increased the profits in a time when the salary of the workers went down but forget the rails are running because of the workers not because of the CEOs. the unions would not be on strike without the possibility of the impression of the workers. if all workers quit on the railways there is no company anymore, and no one will work if they can not make a living out of it. make clear, that if the engineers are not keeping the railways or trains in working conditions there is no railways, the shareholders will sell them quickly and no one can use them. it was a great idea to get private shareholders in public service
40,000 workers who on strike because they believe they're getting fleeced, 1 Politician, and 1 CEO saying they are militant and should put up with it. I thought we lived in a democracy?
The workers are effecting the working class that need to travel to work because they don't have the luxury of calling a strike. What should happen is anyone who was apart of the strike should be sacked and let people who want to work work. An experienced train driver gets £65,000 and they have the nerve to say thats not enough
It's not a case of saying it's not enough. There's other parts to the ballot and if you can't be bothered to get the full facts it's pointless trying to tell you. If you get contractual hours, weekends off, annual leave, pensions, anti discrimination laws then 3 guesses where they came from Nathaniel??
Andrew Haines trying to pass this off as a good deal and READILY stating that it is, in real terms, a pay cut is INSANE. How people have the audacity to stand there like that and suggest that it's a good deal is unreal. Y'all keep striking! Solidarity from the US.
that's exactly what I was thinking - and trying to justify it with the possibility of cash bonus and discounted travel, as if that levels it out somehow. the man's living in lala land.
@@loveisall5520 ah you’re a yank. Sorry mate, I know you wish you had the same amount of industrial action in your country. Maybe you’d be late for your next mass shooting?
Half of them won't even know the difference between being at work and being on strike. All those knuckle heads in high viz jackets cluttering the platform doing absolutely F all. No wonder we have the most expensive rail travel in Europe.
and by the way, that minister said, "we need to modernize our railway system", and how do you do that? the railway system is private, mostly under control from companies, they are not obliged to do so, one of the so called freedom of privatizations. public transport, power, water supply and some other key areas, were never ment to be in private hands, this are goods of the state / people. since the UK gov. has made the decisions to sell these assests to private companies, they sold out the state, removed control over certain things, but the thick hads of UK people, do not see this, "we have an empire", we do not need water, electricity or transportation means, because we have an empire. good bye UK
Solidarity with the workers, in the railways and across the whole economy.
The solution to the cost of living crisis is lower profits and higher wages.
100 %. It's time to stand together
Billions paid to the fat cat's, and shareholders! The worker's overworked and underpaid. That's the Tories for you.
@@paulfairbairn1066
Indeed. That capitalism for you.
@@pithikoulis
Wrong.
Higher ticket prices are part of government rules on how the train industry works. They go up by RPI every year - 11%.
And then they want to give workers a pay rise of 4%, and of course, trouser the difference.
@@paulfairbairn1066 Go and buy shares yourself if you think that they get such a great deal.
Solidarity with rail workers and fair play on unions
Watching the UK descend into ruins is quite interesting.
@@Baxter157. Would you prefer the tories race to the bottom?
100%. All stand together
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Now I'm late to work because some people who literally only stop and start a train want higher wages??
Solidarity for the workers. Good for them
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@@basilmagnanimous7011 I agree, throw your degree away when you don't get paid appropriately for your work. Throw your future and those of your dependents away, because CEOs need to be paid millions. I agree, makes total sense to freely enslave yourself by your overlords.
Definitely communist.
How do you know they are underpaid?
60k plus there salary I'm band 6 nurse with 43k per year...yeaas sure they are so underpay
@@king489. You have such a poor command of the English language I wouldn’t trust you to read a menu let alone a prescription.
I wonder how long it took them to find selfish people moaning about strikes for them to push their narrative. Solidarity with rail workers and fair play on unions
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Or they were planned
Really nauseating
They legally cant do that and rail workers (not talking abt the other unions) are overstaffed and overpayed, a train driver makes £66k plus overtime and bonuses
@@basilmagnanimous7011 Not you sticking up for the billionaires. The greed is so out of control, people are STRUGGLING to live whilst the CEOS boast about record breaking profits.
We're experiencing a cost of living CRISIS that is going to get worse come winter, stuck in the middle of brexit, feeling effects of the Ukraine war, on the brink of another recession, our government is ridden with out of touch rich boys. We NEED change, Change only happens with disruption. Change only happens with disruption.
'Its about putting the users of this service first' I didn't hear them saying this when they made train travel more expensive then air travel. I didn't hear them saying this when they privatised the profit making areas and left the public to find the rail infrastructure. Disgraceful, shameful, lying government. Get rid of them ASAP.
The private firms who took over in Thatcher's era make a fortune in profits but pay for the workforce is rubbish and they now want to downgrade maintenance .Ticket sales , cleaners , guards , are paid a pittance for today .Drivers are the equal of pilots and have a huge responsibility .The Government has a nerve .they do not serve the public , get paid , have expenses , a second house Oh yes and a pay rise ..PS can we know the salary of the CEO of Network rail etc etc etc
@@HelenaMikas. 👍. Absolutely 100% spot on.
@@HelenaMikas Thatcher didn't privatise the railways. Do your research
If you wish to sell a particular commodity, is it not wisest to do your best to provide it in the most attritive manner that you possibly can?
It may be that it is not particularly attractive not to provide what you claim you are willing and able to provide, always supposing that anyone wants to buy the commodity that you are selling
John Major’s conservative government privatised the railways.
While Kier starmer shows what a poor choice he is for the Labour party sacking Sam shame on starmer he needs to be replaced he s shown he s not for the workers
I am thankful for what my union in the Netherlands did when they negotiated our severance pay with my US employer when they decided to close down their presence in the Netherlands. We, the staff and the staff representatives, delegated our union to negotiate the terms. The union doesn't have to put every offer the employer makes up for voting. They only have to keep the staff representatives informed of the progress of the negotiation. I was so gratefull that I continued paying my monthly dues to the union for 12 years even after I left the Netherlands to work elsewhere.
As a Russian woman, I'm glad for the strikes 🤣
Good. Hold their feet to the fire, get every penny you're worth and not one less!
The power of solidarity and community. I support the workers and their right to strike.
From where do you get the idea that anyone has a what you call a "right to strike"? - Is it some sort of tenet of some sort of religion?- What is a "right?
How exactly is a "right" defined?
You have not the faintest idea? - This you are about to illustrate by signally failing to define a right.
@@vhawk1951kl Rights are legal, social or principles based in law. You’re correct there is no specific “right” under a law act that empowers one to strike. However, there are statutory law protections (principles) for the organisers of these kinds of industrial actions (or strikes). As a last tool to negotiate, union members based on those principles in statutory law are protected and have the right to take industrial action (or strike) - it is this that I support.
@@ACsPianoCorner You see? You immediately fall into circularity and begging the question, that is why you cam up with what even you can see is empty waffle or meaningless blather.
@@vhawk1951kl pompous verbosity.
@@ACsPianoCorner well the salary is 60k plus pe year...
Solidarity with the RMT and all underpaid workers.
they are paid £66k a year plus double pay overtime
@@boredphysicist Yeah sure. Every cleaner, caterer, signaller and electrician working for the railways is on £66k right? Are you ok? Most of the RMT members earn less than 30k. And the dispute is not only over pay.
@@boredphysicist. Have the decency to research your claims, that way you not make such ignorant, erroneous comments.
@@boredphysicist Double pay on Sundays stopped 20 years ago. Do you pluck things out of fresh air?
@@thomasc5443 I drove a train for 33 years. Never earnt 66k ever.
Hi, it is not just pay, it is job security, maintaining working conditions and hours and a wage to keep pace with inflation.
Can't expect a company to keep on a job role that is not necessary to function.
A business that is not evolving is dying. Then no one will have a job
Solidarity with all rail workers
Solidarity with workers
Which in practice means chattering like a monkey on this does it not?
Yep
Labour should be dominating on this issue. They are the LABOUR party FFS. Instead Kier Starmer is running scared of Rupert Murdoch. He's a coward and a sell-out. 😡
Well done Sam Tarry ✊
Yes ,well said.
When will people open their eyes and realise the labour party are just as bad as the Torys. The grass isn't greener on either side
Baldy bonce is loving the attention.
I guess the problem is the last time they attempted to do that in 2019, the country basically ruined them for doing so, and Labour cannot afford to lose the next election. In many ways it’s unfortunately the result of an electorate who are determined to vote against their own interests, and Labour essentially only having one real attempt left to gain power. They seem too scared to do anything.
You need to think more strategically. If Labour win the next GE, how do they negotiate with the unions when the Transport Minister had been on same picket lines in the recent past?
I fully support the strikes, workers need a fair deal!
Then you don’t use london public transport
@@okiamyacine664 no, haha, I live in Norfolk, there's barely a bus where I am!
@@okiamyacine664 Corporate bootlickers like you always pretend during times like this that you're concerrned about low paid, non unionized workers not being able to get to their low paid jobs. The irony never fails to make me laugh.
There payment is 60k plus per year
@@king489 "Their" bad bot
It's not about modernisation - we have more than enough to ensure best quality living. It's the distribution of wealth that's the problem.
Train drivers refuse to accept some of them being made redundant despite the fact they are redundant, modern rail doesnt need as many drivers but our push for modernisation has been hamstrung by greedy unions run by luddites
@@boredphysicist Strange comment considering a train won't run without a driver. Do you live on Mars?
@@stephenjon3502 actually a significant amount of trains could be run without drivers but the drivers unions force them to not, look at the Paris metro where multiple lines are driverless
@@boredphysicist That's France fella. Auto running has been on a few underground lines for years. You still need a driver for operational problems and defect handling. Driverless trains are probably about 30 years away.
The real issue is with retraining if people are no longer needed for these jobs how do we retrain them for new work? Wheres the investment? Maybe everything shouldn't be so cut throat when people are out of work for a while.
When you suddenly realize that voting for Tories in power for 12+ years is a bad idea. Wait, but they are still in power: trust the Tories at your own peril.
Maybe if the shadow transport minister got involved......oh no wait, the Labour leader sacked him for joining the picket line 😂
Weve not voted for them since the 1950’s 🤷🏻
@@davebirch1976 whataboutery
@@toriesdontgettazered7464 "whataboutery" the usual reply from people who don't like to be told the truth that the Labour party are just as bad as the Tory party when it all boils down to it 😂
Hear, hear, hear !!!!
Are the MP’s getting a pay rise?
Solidarity
The trains have earned a fortune over the years packing us in like sardines in such a way that trains were never disign to run and they wouldn't have done their costing based on such a system.
Up the workers✊
Ouch!
Good the strikers, well done! Now the rest of the country. Barb
go, workers. Lizzie is throwing oil on the fire. She is the biggest risk the UK has seen in a century.
Well done you guys. Fight for your RIGHTS. Let the Ministers who are having a huge salary & enjoying their wealth take notice of your hardship.
May God hear your appeals.
Yea, let those who DEPEND on your rail services also STAND UP WITH YOU & speak up for you guys.
RMT is working for Russia
Train drivers get paid around the same as MPs
@@stephenjon3502 look it up
Those that abuse capital letters emphasise nothing but the hysteria of the abuser.
What in blue blazes is a "right"?
Think your average unskilled train Worker is on roughly 40 grand per year.
Its not well done, they need to stop being greedy and get back into work..
Stand with the Unions.
Which if it were any more than empty talk or chattering like a monkey would consist of contributing £100 a week to the strike fund all the relevant union, would it not?
Yeah, right. Talk is cheap and boy do you talk titch.
yes
Against the unions
Why do MPs get above inflation pay rises but not other public sector workers?
Solidarity with real workers ✊
And your "solidarity" - which is no more than chattering like a monkey on this, takes what exact form? - Are you paying the wages that they are not earning?
Yeah, right.
You *talk* a good game but actually *do* nothing, is that not exactly correct?
The plain fact of the matter is that there is nothing that you can do nor are you prepared to do anything, is it not?
Exactly how many of those on strike do you know personally and with whom you are intimate and familiar in detail?
Yeah, right. You keep it as vague and sentimental as possible titch, that way you don't have to actually*Do*anything. Tee hee. It turns out that nobody can eat your religious mumbo-jumbo but that does not prevent you from indulging your taste for it.
This is the result of 10 years of cuts (in real terms).
Government own website:
"Around 40% of working-age adults in workless families were in *relative poverty* before housing costs in 2019/20"
"Around one in six people in the UK are in relative low income before housing costs (BHC), rising to around one in five once we account for housing costs (AHC)."
The Tories are thinking this is good, but we can do better!
I believe it is 1 in 5 in the EU so not to bad .
Railways back into public ownership. Starmer is part of the establishment. Revolution is required.
Hear, hear, hear !!!!
energy companies back in public ownership too! We live in a capitalist society these companies will always try to make as much profit as they can, while paying the least wage they can get away with
Water, electricity and gas.
@@lolazal1 and public transport...! Stop the pilfering bastards profiteering off our hard work.
Idiot
Solidarity with the strikers 👍 😊
Solidarity with the rail workers ✊
@@basilmagnanimous7011 You should get out more you sound like a right bootlicker 😉
If Labour no longer supports Unions, it's no longer the Labour Party.
Hear, hear, hear !!!!
The RMT haven’t been affiliated to the Labour Party for about 10 years now, this shows you why, good on you Sam, shame on you Keir.
I thought Starmer's job was to support workers not fat cats.
The lack of empathy with some people who are clearly "alright Jack" and some who are also struggling, clearly highlights ignorance and selfishness. Imagine how they'd complain if the poor nurses or hospital staff went on strike.
You are merely saying that those to whom you refer are sinners are you not? - Why do you religious fanatics keep dragging religion and sin into it?
They ARE going on strike, the dates are yet to be announced but they have been balloted and have overwhelminly voted to strike. It will be the first strike of its kind in the NHS.
It will be interesting to see how all these ignorant people who say things like protests are blocking people getting to hospital (while ignoring the ambulance crisis and crumbilng nhs infrastructure) or complaining about rail workers getting better pay than NHS workers... I will be very interested to see how many of the support NHS workers striking for better pay and conditions... will they still be vocal about the hospitals and NHS staff then?
They should. About time we had a general strike. Nurses pay and conditions are nothing to do with rail workers. Looks like you've been gaslit Allan.
@@stephenjon3502 I never said that the nurses pay has anything to do with that of the rail workers Stephen, I don't know where this idiotic inference came from. A general strike might help for sure.
@@TheLegenDacster So why mention nurses then? You've just trotted out the same old nonsense like all the RW media have been talking about for years.
10:00, that women is ignorant. This is why working class is screwed. What RMT is doing RIGHT NOW is fighting not only their pay raises but they are FIGHTING for the working class. RMT is showing the other working people that WE HAVE THE POWER to change things but if you just go along with corrupt system, YOU WILL LIVE YOUR LIFE POOR until you die poor.
Yeah by her logic ALL workers would never strike and accept whatever.
Why didn't Channel 4 ask the Chief Exec of Network Rail how much his salary is and how much of a pay increase he received?
Sky did
@@AzadAli-re2fz One channel. They all should be questioning how much they get paid. How much is paid out to investors. The people who get you from point a to point b shouldnt be the ones being shamed.
£588,000 salary.
“And the train arriving at Platform number 10 is the gravy train to Easy Street.”
And the Palace of Westminster, the social club on the banks of the Thames.
@@chrissmith7655 free beer for the workers ✊🏼
take away right to strike, take away democracy ...
It will be delt with the same why the tried to stop protesting around parliament, instead of shouting you sing. Instead of striking you just do collective none production day, turn up and everyone doesn't do there job.
Yes of course :)
Solidarity to the workers, shame on the media.
General Strike incoming I reckon
@norman smithers. You’re right! Tony Blair tore up clause 4 years ago, now Starmer has tore up the whole Labour movement, shame on him.
@@johnmoore9862 unfortunately Labour isn't the party it once was. Corbin tried to bring it back and we all know what happened there....
@@drundub73 same mate, needs to be done now
@@redmozzy. Yes absolutely, we need a clear distinction between the two main parties. Unfortunately I don’t think Keir is the right person to take that forward. It’s time he nailed his colours to the mast. 👍. All the best.
When you can't feed your family or pay your bills, a sporting event pales into insignificance.
Solidarity with the rail workers 💪
A sporting event bring lots of tourists to the area, giving local businesses that are struggling during a crisis more income. That means more families fed well.
@norman smithers completely agree 👍
@norman smithers Spot on. Starmer needs to go.
i can assure you they can all fee their families. this is the far left holding the country to ransom. they failed in the 70s, they'll fail again now.
can't feed their families train drivers are on like 60k already lol they are just greedy
I’m loving these comments. More people need to stand up for their rights and for a better life.
Absolute solidarity with the workers!
Solidarity to workers.
They are massively overpaid - we are all getting poorer, they should be no exception
Power to RMT and workers rights.
Enough is enough!!!!!
You know it's bad when the TSSA go out, they hardly did (if ever) when I was on the railway (RMT member) back in the 80s / 90s
Hainess is on 600k per annum plus bonus. He gave himself 6.5% increase last year
Keep it up. 💯 % support
General Strike 2022!!
Power never exceeds to demands without a threat. Fight, fight, fight.
The public mood has shifted. People support the strike and the RMT, Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey are the most popular men in the country right now. Nobody wants Starmer Tory-lite.
Who is that tool of a reporter? The derisory tone when talking to workers and Labour is absent when tugging his forelock to rail bosses and the government. Why didn’t he ask tough about bloated profits taken out of the industry?
Anyone who uses the term "militant trade unions" should not be allowed to be in power.
Hear, hear, hear !!!!
I'm a rail worker, and the last thing we want is to disrupt the lives of our customers! Believe it or not, the average train driver out there actually does care about the customers. But right now, we're desperately afraid that there won't be anything left of the railway in 2 years if this government gets its way, and that's why we (and our colleagues in other sectors of the railway) are opting for temporary disruption as opposed to the permanent disruption that will be there if the government dessimates the railway like it wants to! Remember, this isn't just about pay. This is about job security, safety, etc. As it stands now, almost every train I drive is delayed because of countless speed restrictions on the line because Network Rail aren't being allowed to invest money in fixing things. If the government cuts 2000 jobs as it wants to do, the infrastructure will collapse, and worst case scenario is that people will die because trains will derail (which we're already close to as some parts of the tracks are so bad, we can't go through at line speed any more). The government also wants to close all ticket offices, and get rid of all train guards. This will make the railway so unsafe! We've already seen at stations where there are no staff, drug dealers and gangs take over, intimidating passengers, vandalising stations, etc. Not to mention extremely unsafe dispatch methods. My company has already got rid of guards. When I pull into a station with a 12 car train, with 800 people on board, and I've got 16 tiny cameras as my only means of checking the side of the train, with sunlight obscuring the view, bugs covering the camera lenses, and the cheapest technology the company can get away with so the cameras blur and flicker all the time, someone could easily fall down the side of the train and I wouldn't know. Not to mention, there will be no one to assists disabled or elderly passengers. Our railway could be so incredibly good, but this government seems to want to destroy it completely for their own short-term profit! Sorry, for such a long write-up, but please remember that this is WAY more than just a fight for a pay rise. This is fight for the future of the railway itself! And I guarantee you, if we lose this one, the government will be after the NHS next!
But you do realise that every time you guys strike the sooner the government would want to automate the entire system right?
And I get it you're going through a hard time but you're not the only ones.
Machines and other automated systems definitely won't call in sick, demand pay rises, or go on strike. And I'm frankly sick and tired of not being able to see my family and friends and doing the things that I need to do Simply because you think you're the only ones owed more money.
@@callum2877 Automatic trains run on the tube and have done so for years.
When they go wrong guess who they need to move them?
A D R I V E R.......
8% over 3 years, He really thinks that's acceptable in the present climate? Well his 600k salary really seems unpalatable by anyone with any sense of justice.
8% for who? Those on 60k? Or those on low wages which of course should be raised if they struggle
@@krob2327 Track workers 20-23k, platform staff 17.5k-27k, even trainee drivers are 23k, 38k after 1 year, 43k year 2, then 53k, The Elite Drivers may earn 60k on the big routes, many local drivers do not. Drivers do some of the most antisocial hours you could dream up, a sign on time of 04:30am, which means arising from sleep at 0330am. They have to witness suicidal people jumping infront of their train travelling at speeds of over 50mph, people think a train drivers job is easy and fun and doesn't deserve a salary of 60k. I certainly wouldn't work on a platform, risking getting my head caved in, Verbally abused, or spat on during covid, just because someones drunk to much and want's to fist someone because their train is 30 minutes late, Just not worth 17-23k.
@@handheldmerchant7671 wages have stagnated for sure. Look at us and the Eu vs the USA since the recession. They recovered we didn’t. I just don’t see how the Trains are going to be funded going forwards. They most likely won’t reach full capacity again so it will have to change. People are taking voluntary redundancy etc . I do understand the low wage issue. It’s a joke all across the economy.
@@krob2327 people need to stand up and be counted when the £500 million profit the railways made last year went straight to the shareholders and a £600,000 directors salary, not to mention the 130 billion the government are sinking into the HS2 black hole. Money is swilling around but not for a workers payrise.
hate strikes but gotta say - I agree with what he is saying
As a train passenger, you have my fullest support. Well done strikers!!!
When senior managers and MPs show pay restraint I'll vote in favour of my pay offer as I did during covid in solidarity with those who weren't fortunate to have the job security and conditions I have. Until then I'll continue to encourage colleagues to use their collective position and refuse it. The only way forward from austerity and the wealth moving upwards is to say we won't accept trickle down BS and we want a bottom up approach.
Bottom up approach is never going to happen. It's just not the way the world works. The rich and powerful get to make the rules and the people at the bottom have to struggle to find the a way to survive. In the mean time, the solution for the rich is to pit people against each other. Devide and conquer.
@@adrianmargean3402 yes I agree mate I talk in an ideal world where we could make the change happen by some democratic means but unfortunately we don't live under a system which would allow it. It hasn't evolved far enough from the 17th century and instead of gentleman's sons representing us we now have the sons of corporations and the banks. We need some new levelers but that would take a revolution.
Bloke is full of it. Network rail should be ashamed!!!!
WELL DONE MICK LYNCH SOLIDARITY TO MY FELLEW RMT MEMBERS
Yeah, good on yeah Mick, what you on now, over £100,000 Solidarity with the workers
If something is an "essential PUBLIC service" why is it in private hands?
My full support for the workers.
The lazy dossers couldn’t work in convulsions ,they are earning more than they deserve already . Absolute shower of Bolsheviks the lot of them holding the public to ransom . The union leaders should be arrested for sedition & subversive activities .
Well done to the unions for making a stand. We need more unions and more worker rights. Why should the rich eat most of the pie we bake?
**Support the Strikes**
@@JupiterThunder. No one wants your poxy support.
Not a single comment from any interviewer or interviewee on whether rail workers should actually get a rise and that would be another good way to "put a stop" to this rather than finding new legislation to stamp out their right to protest and say how unfair it is on the public and the country and how selfish they're being etc... Not a word about the general disparity of wealth that is behind the whole thing.
All these stories are perfectly crafted to ignore the massive elephant in the room. Privitatisation in this country must've followed the Soviet way, it's all it's done is create profiterring monopolies and everyone apart from the top 1% are worse off.
The media is the mouth piece of big businesses and politicians, who work for big businesses 🙄
Cut the transport minister pay and kindly asked him to work on Sunday for the same money with no time on off see what's is response
Starmer should resign immediately
Pay the workers now and the strike will be over. The ball is in your court, bosses
"They've gotta think about others not just themselves"
That's literally what they're doing you silly person
She's probably not got a union.
She's clearly not smart either.
And probably on Zero hours contact.
*Why* "think about others"? - Some sort of religious mumbo-jumbo?
Solidarity and Support for underpaid and disrespected Workers throughout the UK 🇬🇧
a general strike is what is necessary , and ally it to mass non payment of utility bills (cancel direct debits to make this work ) for those also not in work to show solidarity and achieve real change to reverse 12 years of tory theft of our wealth
Bravo to those hard railway workers. Pay them fairly like those useless MPs. 8 percent in 3 years is not fair.
I hear people saying: "Well I also didn't get raises, nurses and doctors are also earning less".
Yes, exactly. They should also earn more but sadly don't have a strong union.
Remember what unions and socialists got you: abolishment of child labour, 5 instead of 7 day work week, 8 instead of 12 hour shifts, paid leave...
These things were not brought about on its own.
Strike as long as is necessary. We support you!
👍. Absolutely 100% spot on.
👏👏👏👏 we so got healthcare and pensions and all these things are being undermined. It's literally everything
And Mick comes in at the end to sweep up all the BS and drop some truths. Good. The general public needs to hear this. We never have a voice in media. Mick speaks to and for a larger number of the public than Labour and the Tories do.
I'd like to know what the pay increase (inc bonuses) for the CEO of Network Rail was between 2021 and 2022; I bet your bottom dollar it was more than 4%.
I support industrial action. We need to support the unions and workers in our efforts to create a more fair and equal society.
And of course Labour ends up looking bad to all possible constituents...
Because the current leadership are bought by big businesses, whilst pretending they work for the people.
Vote Green and SNP.
Don't be mad at them for fighting for their worth. Start fighting for your own worth!
Power to the people!
Damn, how the worm has turned. Yrs ago, comments would have shown the public at large unhappy at the strikers. Now, support is almost universal in recognition that we are all being taken for a ride as inequality widens,
Who cares about "reduced revenues" if the company is still making a huge NET profit that's going straight to the top.
NET profit needs to be shared in a far more equitable way.
People earning hundreds of thousands have no grounds to tell people who earn 25k-40k that they can't get a pay rise.
Every time I see economic issues being discussed on Legacy Media, they always ignore the NET, shareholder dividends, CEO bonus' etc
Solidarity with rail workers,
Unity is strength
SOLIDARITY TO ALL WORKERS YOU DESERVE BETTER. NATIONAL STRIKE NEEDED ACROSS THE BOARD
Ya lets have rampant inflation and cripple the country! Duh!!
Strike, strike and strike. That is good.
so many people criticize the workers, but no one criticizes the CEOs and shareholders who increased the profits in a time when the salary of the workers went down but forget the rails are running because of the workers not because of the CEOs. the unions would not be on strike without the possibility of the impression of the workers. if all workers quit on the railways there is no company anymore, and no one will work if they can not make a living out of it. make clear, that if the engineers are not keeping the railways or trains in working conditions there is no railways, the shareholders will sell them quickly and no one can use them. it was a great idea to get private shareholders in public service
40,000 workers who on strike because they believe they're getting fleeced, 1 Politician, and 1 CEO saying they are militant and should put up with it.
I thought we lived in a democracy?
RMT ✊
The workers of the UK are with you! Solidarity!
To true
Well done Sam Tarry! I know he got fired but he did what Keir Starmer should be doing!!! But of course Keir Starmer is a Tory with a Labour tie!
I'm a pensioner, 79 years and living alone. No point in us going on strike is there?
Every little helps William 👍all the best.
The workers are effecting the working class that need to travel to work because they don't have the luxury of calling a strike. What should happen is anyone who was apart of the strike should be sacked and let people who want to work work.
An experienced train driver gets £65,000 and they have the nerve to say thats not enough
It's not a case of saying it's not enough. There's other parts to the ballot and if you can't be bothered to get the full facts it's pointless trying to tell you.
If you get contractual hours, weekends off, annual leave, pensions, anti discrimination laws then 3 guesses where they came from Nathaniel??
I am with you all the way Nathaniel and well said .
Solidarity with rail workers who are demanding better.
Well done Sam Tarry! Labour needs to rid itself of Starmer!
Solidarity with the RMT. The fact that they have been called militant (lol) goes to show how much of an impact they are having.
Andrew Haines trying to pass this off as a good deal and READILY stating that it is, in real terms, a pay cut is INSANE. How people have the audacity to stand there like that and suggest that it's a good deal is unreal. Y'all keep striking! Solidarity from the US.
that's exactly what I was thinking - and trying to justify it with the possibility of cash bonus and discounted travel, as if that levels it out somehow. the man's living in lala land.
Respect to Sam
I'd love a General Strike
I’d love a revolution.
Give them all a pay rise so that the the trains continue to not run on time and be cancelled.
Which fast food restaurant do you flip burgers at, son?
@@loveisall5520 are you complaining about worker salaries whilst simultaneously shitting on low wage workers?
Railways back into public ownership. Then sack the management. All profits reinvested into the system.
@@loveisall5520 ah you’re a yank. Sorry mate, I know you wish you had the same amount of industrial action in your country. Maybe you’d be late for your next mass shooting?
Half of them won't even know the difference between being at work and being on strike. All those knuckle heads in high viz jackets cluttering the platform doing absolutely F all. No wonder we have the most expensive rail travel in Europe.
and by the way, that minister said, "we need to modernize our railway system", and how do you do that? the railway system is private, mostly under control from companies, they are not obliged to do so, one of the so called freedom of privatizations. public transport, power, water supply and some other key areas, were never ment to be in private hands, this are goods of the state / people. since the UK gov. has made the decisions to sell these assests to private companies, they sold out the state, removed control over certain things, but the thick hads of UK people, do not see this, "we have an empire", we do not need water, electricity or transportation means, because we have an empire.
good bye UK
Support our workers not our government... 👏🇬🇧
up the workers !! i support them all the way ,