Without the PAP, this is what will happen to the MRT - down for TWO DAYS!!!

[Leongsam]

London faces two-day Underground strike chaos




A man walks past hoardings surrounding the building work at London Underground's Bond Street station in central London on Jan 27, 2014. London faces travel chaos on Tuesday when workers on the Underground railway go on strike for 48 hours to protest the closure of ticket offices with the loss of hundreds of jobs. -- FILE PHOTO: REUTERS

The Straits Times
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Published on Feb 04, 2014

London faces two-day Underground strike chaos

LONDON (AFP) - London faces travel chaos on Tuesday when workers on the Underground railway go on strike for 48 hours to protest the closure of ticket offices with the loss of hundreds of jobs.

Talks between the government and two unions behind the strike on the world's oldest subway system broke down on Monday without agreement.

It is the latest in a series of strikes on the "Tube" since Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative-led coalition took office promising austerity measures to curb a record deficit.

London Mayor Boris Johnson, widely considered a party leadership rival to Cameron, has announced plans to close many of the Underground's ticket offices and cut 953 jobs.

Copyright © 2014 Singapore Press Holdings. All rights reserved.

 

[myfoot123]

You are so wrong. If SMRT stops, all their managements staff and workers will not be paid. The new govt just have to take control of the stat boards payments systems and pay or sack those who dare to tempt fate. Control a few vital systems - court, the newspaper, transport and temasek/GIC. and everything will faill into place without PAP. Currently, too many LEE families members working in GIC/Temasek, doesn't bore well for Singapore future.

 

[laksaboy]

This is fantastic... it's called having a union with balls.

Also, these right-wing 'Thatcher' bastards never implement their 'austerity measures' on themselves.

You don't want a strike? Then pay a fair wage, and give good welfare.

 

[Leongsam]

This is fantastic... it's called having a union with balls.

Also, these right-wing 'Thatcher' bastards never implement their 'austerity measures' on themselves.

You don't want a strike? Then pay a fair wage, and give good welfare.

It gives the Union a good look but you do realise what is happening don't you.

The Underground is one of the few systems which still have a whole row of real live human ticket dispensers at every station. They cost the earth because they have been on the job for decades.

This increases the overheads of the underground service which are ultimately paid for by the hapless customer.

The management of the tube wants to automate the process. The unions are trying to prevent that from happening.

 

[red amoeba]

Here in Singapore they just sack n the unions echo in unison without a whimper ... Have union is as good as not having

 

[steffychun]

Striking is healthy...gives workers exercise so that they can perform their tasks better on return

 

[jw5]

No MRT, can take bus.

 

[GaoFar]

No MRT, can take bus.

No bus, we can cycle or walk, environmental friendly, no problem one.

 

[singveld]

those union are the same one that kill the industries in England. If you want to live in a country with no jobs, by all means support the union.

This is fantastic... it's called having a union with balls.

Also, these right-wing 'Thatcher' bastards never implement their 'austerity measures' on themselves.

You don't want a strike? Then pay a fair wage, and give good welfare.

 

[bic_cherry]

London faces two-day Underground strike chaos


A man walks past hoardings surrounding the building work at London Underground's Bond Street station in central London on Jan 27, 2014. London faces travel chaos on Tuesday when workers on the Underground railway go on strike for 48 hours to protest the closure of ticket offices with the loss of hundreds of jobs. -- FILE PHOTO: REUTERS
The Straits Times
www.straitstimes.com
Published on Feb 04, 2014

London faces two-day Underground strike chaos
LONDON (AFP) - London faces travel chaos on Tuesday when workers on the Underground railway go on strike for 48 hours to protest the closure of ticket offices with the loss of hundreds of jobs.

Talks between the government and two unions behind the strike on the world's oldest subway system broke down on Monday without agreement.

It is the latest in a series of strikes on the "Tube" since Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative-led coalition took office promising austerity measures to curb a record deficit.

London Mayor Boris Johnson, widely considered a party leadership rival to Cameron, has announced plans to close many of the Underground's ticket offices and cut 953 jobs.

Copyright © 2014 Singapore Press Holdings. All rights reserved.

Singapore don't even have a poverty line: unions in Singapore are merely paper tigers, a printing press to create PAP MPs with the 'Union MP' stamp...

 

[singveld]

Singapore don't even have a poverty line: unions in Singapore are merely paper tigers, a printing press to create PAP MPs with the 'Union MP' stamp...

i rather have that, than the crazy union in UK which kill their industries. Think of the people who relies on the train to go to work.