On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:19:44 -0000, "Dom1234"
wrote:

Over 50% of ballot papers returned not a third.

The RMT is claiming 4,000 members working for LU; according to its own
press release [1] 1,327 voted for strike action, with 241 against,
while 1,435 voted for action short of strike, with 129 against.
That's 1,568 and 1,564 respectively. Leaving aside the discrepancy
between the two totals, if - as you claim - more than half of the
ballot papers were returned, then where are the other at least 430-odd
votes? If they were absentions, why were they not acknowledged in the
press release? Whichever way you cut it, if the RMT had 4,000 members
and only 1,327 voted to strike, then that's a third of the membership.

The strike will succeed and the RMT will be proved right

Succeed in what? ****ing off the public, perhaps, but probably not
even that, considering the Underground is running today, with
currently only minor delays on the Northern. The RMT killjoys have
suceeded in closing 22 out of 275 stations - i.e. 8% of them.

[1] http://www.rmt.org.uk/C2B/PressOffic...ID=1807&Type=2
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