National train strike

[malumbu]

It would be good to hear some informed views on this. I had enough of the hang them and flog them brigade, which was almost universal, on Questiontime last night. Labour stood on the fence, but please don't turn this into a thread to have a go at them.

So I respect the right to take industrial action. I don't want anything to deter people from using public transport. I've been through numerous transport strikes in the past and this was fairly common in previous decades. I'm not going down the state vs private route as privitisation has been a license to print money for the train operating companies (and ironically some failed so badly in service provision that government took over).

Personally I don't like going down the "oh they are already paid more than nurses argument, nurses pay is a separate matter and fed up with those on the other site using this against TfL employees. I know that in terms of unions RMT are probably one of the worst to deal with, but I expect they have a high membership and the members wanted this action. This personally affects my holiday plans so hope for a compromise to be reached, but don't know what that is.