Brimstone wrote:
Why do people go on strike?

Not feeling confident / safe / strong enough to cross a picket line?

Or maybe because the RMT seems to be the most incompetent union. Other
unions (not just talking railways) seem to be able to negotiate the
reasonable things they want wheras the RMT seem to use strikes far too
often. Heck, next week two of the issues they are having a strike over
a

1. "...our members believe is the first step to exporting the
call-centre work overseas"

So they aren't striking over an actual issue just an opinion of
something which may become an issue in the future.

2. "The transport museum is being closed for refurbishment for 18
months, yet rather than redeploy the staff and use their talents
elsewhere in the organisation they are making them redundant."

They expect a whole musuem worth of staff to be found jobs within TFL?
Where does the sudden influx of jobs come from? Why should I, a
taxpayer, fund extra people to do something that didn't need doing
before.