disgoftunwells wrote:
On 28 May, 19:13, Tony Polson wrote:
disgoftunwells wrote:
Where you have an essential service, how about legislation to remove*
the right to strike and replace it with compulsory pendulum
arbitration. This has worked well at many companies, where a strike
would damage employees and employers. It could work in the public
sector as well.

The first reaction to such a suggestion would be for the RMT to call an
all-out strike.

That would of course be a political strike which is banned under the
80s legislation, so the RMT could then be stripped of its assets.


Nonsense. RMT would be striking because management were unilaterally
imposing an unacceptable form of wage negotiation. That's a fundamental
issue and one that would form a perfectly legal basis for industrial
action. Comrade Crow would have no problem rustling up a vote against,
so all requirements of the industrial relations legislation would have
been complied with.


But ultimately, when faced with constant blackmail, a day of reckoning
has to arrive.


That's where you're wrong. Decades of simmering discontent and periodic
strikes have led to more decades of simmering discontent and periodic
strikes. Nothing has changed. Nothing is bringing it to a head, so
there won't be a day of reckoning.

And if anyone thinks that unilaterally imposing an unacceptable form of
wage negotiation is going to bring a day of reckoning, then they're
right. But it would be a day of reckoning for the management, on
account of their gross incompetence.

I don't think for a single minute that TfL are *that* incompetent.