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Even if they are called off now, it is too late to reinstate the normal timetable for tomorrow and Wednesday, and possibly also Thursday. Friday, Saturday and Sunday might still be salvageable.
Not just the media. Its a common term when something is done at the last minute.
Considering this post , just raised a question. I have never in my life been balloted, let alone been on strike. Can you keep calling strikes on the same ballot until a resolution, or do you have to re ballot each time ( after each round ) I genuinely don't know the answer and it just occurred to me while reading this post as I wondered how the staff would officially end it if say they couldn't afford to strike anymore.
I expect 5% is around the sort of figure that RMT leadership will put out to a yes/no vote. Any changes to working week hours or the inclusion of Sunday in the working week chucks that all out of the window though.
It’s a six month window, so ballot results for this dispute enable industrial action at 2 weeks notice until around January?
They can prepare for either scenario but there's a lot of stuff that happens behind the scenes to make either timetable happen. And there is simply not the capacity to undo a strike plan at the drop of a hat.
Once a ballot reaches the required margins, it gives a mandate for 6 months. So that could involve any combination of strikes and action short of a strike for 6 months, in theory.
It's not entirely unknown for a breakthrough to happen the day before! But for all practical purposes it's too late for tomorrow's timetable now.
Thanks for the reply and Murphy's law dictated that as you and others were replying I was looking at a news app and read it there . But also to add I read that network rail are considering paying cash bonuses to signallers to cross the picket line.
Why? The government aren’t going to offer anything. It’ll be down to politics to sort this one out.
If your guess is correct, and don’t find it very out of line, the RMT knows by now that they won’t get more than a 2% or 3% of what they called an insulting offer.
Depends on your T&C's and the way your TOC is handling it then. Obviously being down in DOO land, a lack of conductors isn't nearly as much of an issue for you guys.
Easier said than done as in a lot of cases, London weighting is not a separate allowance but part of basic salary. Also, increasingly civil service offices can only accommodate about two thirds of their staff at any one time, so people have to work from home a couple of days a week.
I wouldn't be surprised if all the talk of increasing productivity was (at least on the TOC side), a distraction technique. On the NR side it's clear they're after their pound of flesh and so I imagine the best possible outcome in that respect would be agreeing that there will be no compulsory redundancies.
Yes but all that is unplanned disruption. Planned disruption such as a strike is often different. As I say, it depends on your T&Cs though.
Not in all cases. For example there is no service on the Cleethorpes - Barton line all week, even though the industrial action only covers the three days. The excuse being given by the TOC is that they can't exchange the unit for the service on its booked day(s). That's just poor. Why not swap the unit on the days services are going to be operated? Too easy!
It won't be called off. Having got this close to it, the RMT leadership won't be wanting to miss out on the headline of having arranged a 'national' strike. This is their once in a generation moment of glory, it'll most certainly go ahead!
I will ask a second time, which hospitals have this policy?
My point was that you asked a question about what if your hospital does not have sufficient facilities to change which I was surprised about as I was not aware of any hospital without these facilities
Nah. Government want this more than anything, classic divide and conquer. And legacy media lap up that narrative too.
