Good on 'em I say.
Who cares if they didnt warn the public before they all got the flu? Who cares if it was just before the afternoon rush hour? Who cares if thousands of footy fans are late to the game or have trouble getting home?
Its the only way that they can actually get their point across. They want more pay.
Basically thousands of people every day depend on them. We dont see them at the front of the train. The drivers never get a thankyou. We just hop on and hop off.
There are so many whinging people who have been delayed because of the train drivers strike. Get over it. Let this make you realise how important these drivers are to you every day.
Im not a train driver, I dont know any train drivers and I dont use the trains but they have my 110% support.
I hope they get what they want.
Rant over
your not a mate of Kevin Reynolds are you
What's wrong with if you take a job you know the pay if its not enough spend less or find new job
Not very Australian making everyone else get home late on a Friday night and miss the footy
Could have made it on a Monday
I dont give a rats about train drives or bus drivers i own a car
Well there's ya new job Greenman - scab train driver
Even better they're electric!
It seems to be the flavour of the month with industrial disputes to have a sick day, but what will end up happening will be the rules for sick leave will end up changing which will **** it up for everyone.
The irony is all the righteously indignant will be yelling jumping up and down complaining about loss of rights will conveniently forget the reason which triggered the changes in the industrial act which will require a Dr's slip each and every sick day.
A mate of mine is a local train driver and he said its the best job he has ever had. He used to see me getting on his line when I was going to work and thought it was funny to send the security gards down to kick me off usually one station before mine the bastard he only did it a couple of times 
thought he was been funny!!
Dunno why they would strike, they get great pay and the hours are flexible.
I heard they had a day off with general soreness so that they will nice and fresh for the big footy game next week.
Fine for the workers but not for "the workers".
Have you ever noticed how anyone who refers to themselves as "the workers" is usually so busy referring to themselves as "the workers" that they're not actually doing any work...?
Lots of people don't get thank yous. Nurses don't. Policemen don't. The army don't.
Lots of people change jobs when they want more money. It's tough, it involves a change but they go through the change because it's their best option.
Is it a good reason to stop work because you think that you deserve money? If you deserve more money get another job. But wait, it's the 1930s and there aren't any jobs in Perth and all the miners are on the poverty line... hang on..
Nope, if you don't earn enough money for accelerating and decelerating a train (with your eyes open - that's the safety part of the role) then get a job in a mine, earn four times the dollars... then the train company actually will wake up and pay you more..
But that's too tough and you worry that it might be hard work and you worry that you might be the only person who does resign, so you get all your mates together and although each of you is totally insignificant together you can **** everyone's day up in such a way that politicians take note. In the same way that termites are individually insignificant and not that different.
$30 an hour sounds pretty good to sit on your ass and press few buttons for a few hours...
**** I have a degree and have a more demanding job and I dont get that much...
I agree with Gazza....you take a job you take the pay...want more pay get another job...
I wonder how many people missed a few hours of work, and hence pay that morning?? I wonder if they could be sued for causing loss of earnings?
can someone name a playstation game that requires LESS skill than driving a train?
nope, I'll make the point again.
A (A meaning single, one, unity, 1, less than 2 and more than zero) train driver stopping his job has no effect. The guys that run the rosta use one of the stand in drivers that they have on call and the train still runs....
I never said anything about degrees and I never said that you didn't have one. This has nothing to do with qualifications, just how difficult a job is and how many people can do it and therefore how much the market deems that the job should receive in pay.
It gets difficult when everyone decides to stop and that is what my point was about. If everyone decides to stop, they're deciding that their profession (and only their profession) needs more cash on the basis that they think they deserve it...
Incidentally, train drivers don't go out of their way to eat at restaurants, drink at pubs, holiday in countries based on whether those people get fair pay - which technically they should if they believe that pay should be based on "fairness" rather than market rates. They should also go out of their way to buy fair trade products and they should never buy anything made in China if they believe that Chinese workers aren't paid enough....
Select to expand quotepooman said...
$30 an hour sounds pretty good to sit on your ass and press few buttons for a few hours...
**** I have a degree and have a more demanding job and I dont get that much...
But you have to know which buttons to press.....
