strikes – Hinterland

Strike daily: How Monday 9 January strikes will affect you

Ivan Annibal — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 07:11:59 +0000

Staple fare for 2023 methinks, it would be very interesting to look at the disproportionate impact of current industrial disputes in rural settings.

Monday is the first time since many people returned to work after a Christmas break that most rail services will return to normal.

But one train operator, Chiltern Railways, is still warning passengers to expect disruption.

The main strike action on Monday is by driving examiners.

Looking ahead, ambulance workers in England and Wales will strike for 24 hours on Wednesday.

Some bus drivers, and teachers in Scotland, will also strike this week.

We’ll bring you another update on Tuesday to explain how these may affect you.

You can read more or watch this report about why people are taking strike action, and below you can find information on how it could affect you.

North of England faces rail chaos, warns business lobby

Ivan Annibal — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:06:49 +0000

The chaos in the rail industry really is impacting on the lives of rural residents in England and so there is much to agree with in the comments profiled in this article. I would like to see rail worker salaries clearly benchmarked against everyone else so that we can see just how deep seated the cost of living challenge they face is compared to other workers. Not because I dispute their right to strike but because we are desperately short of context to understand the relative impact of inflation on them compared say to health workers and thereby build a rounded picture of what is happening to our economy. This article tells us:

Business leaders in the north of England are warning rail services could “collapse into utter chaos” by January unless the government takes action.

Members of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership have written to ask the transport secretary to address a crisis they say is “wreaking havoc”.

Rail travel in northern England has been severely disrupted in recent months by strikes and cancellations.

The government agreed the current situation was “unacceptable”.

It said it was “investing billions” in northern transport and was “working closely with train operators” to resolve problems around the recruitment of new drivers.

But Juergen Maier, former chief executive of Siemens UK and a vice chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said the government had failed to “use the levers only it can pull, to sort out or train services”.

Christmas strike chaos: Pressure grows on Theresa May as 1,000 Royal Mail workers threaten wildcat action as Post Office workers walk out

Ivan Annibal — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 10:41:15 +0000

Does this represent “Christmas contagion” or is it just a flash in the pan. One of the interesting things it represents in my thinking is the discontent of those with very low wages in work as opposed to the 1980s scourge of unemployment. Interestingly there are a higher proportion of people suffering in work poverty in rural than urban England. Any action around postal deliveries will also hit vulnerable rural dwellers disproportionately. This article tells us:

Strikes that spell misery for hundreds of thousands of people this week are set to worsen as Royal Mail staff threaten new wildcat stoppages which could delay millions of Christmas cards and presents.

A further 1,000 Royal Mail delivery staff could take unofficial industrial action as a separate five-day strike by 3,000 Crown post office workers starts on Monday, The Telegraph can reveal, at a time when the service is creaking under the weight of festive demand.

It comes at the start of a week of strike chaos with conductors on rail network Southern set to stop trains south of London on Monday and Tuesday, and more stoppages by British Airways baggage handlers and cabin crew over the weekend frustrating many attempting to get home for Christmas.

Pressure is growing on Theresa May to bring forward Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting to discuss how to ease the crisis.

Senior Tory figures are calling on the Prime Minister to consider legislation to end the misery after Sir Patrick McLoughlin, a former transport secretary, described the action as “politically motivated”.