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    Minimum Service Levels Bill receives Royal Assent

    agreed, so the question is get 78% into a union ? or get rid of the remaining union
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    Minimum Service Levels Bill receives Royal Assent

    22% are in unions. So get rid of the unions or get more unions into the workplace like people are trying at Amazon and McDonald's ? 1690037870 Point 1. Turn out and vote against the strike, at least turn up. Point 2. Isnt that the railway wage increase. Competition between TOCs ?
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    Minimum Service Levels Bill receives Royal Assent

    completely agree, but I dont trust any employer or government to give us something out of the generosity of their hearts, that upsets the profit.
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    Minimum Service Levels Bill receives Royal Assent

    I was actually incredibly angry at NHS staff for the extremely poor turn out on the last ballot. I believe the unions have an important part to play and I need to turn out and vote as part of my place in my union.
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    Minimum Service Levels Bill receives Royal Assent

    so what's the plan then ? Get rid of unions, everyone in the country on zero hour contracts and minimum wage ? Or get rid of minimum wage and just get whatever you are given ? Get rid of maternity and paternity leave ? Go sick and get fired ?
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    Minimum Service Levels Bill receives Royal Assent

    I have the utmost gratitude to the last few years which has seen me grasp my money firmly. Gone was my most expensive hobby with the huge dose of FOMO. I am saving like a lunatic and paying down the mortgage as quick as possible. I wasnt installed with a good finance system and it's taken...
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    Ongoing ASLEF overtime bans

    Action Short Of Strike.
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    Weather disruption Friday 26 November onwards - Storm Arwen

    I believe the train was in the station. There simply was nowhere else to go.
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    Weather disruption Friday 26 November onwards - Storm Arwen

    Gazebo no longer on the track. Single line at Dorchester blocked due to damaged train. Fitters in Botley dealing with another incident
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    Collision and derailment near Salisbury (Fisherton Tunnel) 31/10/21

    Could this be a repeat of the Fareham incident ? Train in a full on slide, realised it was not going to get stopped at the Red so pressed the red emergency button stopping all trains and these two trains ended up at the same point ?
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    Tips for earlies

    It might also be worth, if you can, programming your mobile phone so it turns itself on and off from silent mode automatically
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    Tips for earlies

    Week 3 . Start on lates, struggle because been on a early pattern. Week 4. Start to get used to lates just in time to go back to earlies. Repeat week 1.
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    Tips for earlies

    And I would recommend a white noise sleep sound for falling asleep. There is a reason it works for babies. Also our natural rhythm is on a 45 minute cycle of up and down, so dont start panicking if you dont fall asleep in 30 minutes flat. And no caffeine for 5 hours before bed time.
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    Reading improvements milestones

    If anybody has a photo of the first turbo over the reading flyover in either direction then please let me know. I noticed one person taking pictures at Loverock Road industrial estate and plenty of people taking pictures at Didcot in the fog and the mist. The departure time from Didcot was...

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