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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
I don't think protection from strikes is really a benefit of automation in this case.
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It is and I'll tell you why: when drivers go on strike we feel impact immediately.
DB drivers love to throw pissy little half-day strikes. Like, they just won't show up in the morning. It fucks
everything up.
In a society heavily organized around trains, these guys have incredible leverage. And they know it. So they throw their weight around whenever they feel like they need something. Recently they wanted a 600 Euro Covid bonus. Collectively show up late for work once and they get it, which is 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 because they work for a public company. That bonus is coming out of our pockets, as riders and tax payers. It's not like they're juicing some fat private company. I'd be 100% behind Amazon workers going on strike, for example.
Worse, reasons I don't understand or care to understand, the
multiple DB unions are locked into some kind of eternal 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 match. When one union gets something, the other has to get the same. Driver strikes usually, therefore, come in pairs.
This is a completely different scenario from maintenance workers going on strike. A transit system can limp along for a long time with reduced service if maintenance workers strike--it could take months for them to make their point.
Dispatchers I'd expect to be part of a managers union, or a broader public workers union. How many dispatchers does Translink even need, like four? They definitely don't have their own union. Any strike action they take would be part of a broader action. They couldn't unilaterally decide to 🞵🞵🞵🞵 up the whole system.
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