Train drivers taking the pi$$

There’s an unofficial strike going on at CIE right now. CIE are introducing new rolling stock, and the drivers are demanding “compensation”. Nowhere has anyone said that these new trains/carriages are harder to drive or take any more work to operate, but the drivers want a payoff anyway. The strike is unofficial because the labour court has already told them to get knotted, so the union is staying out of it.

So what they’ve done is virtually shut down all mainline services to the southern half of the country. God help them if this is still the case on friday when half of Limerick and Cork are trying to get to Dublin/Rosslare to get the ferry to Cardiff for the Rugby. There’ll be blood spilt. I’ve got work in Dublin on Thursday & Friday and now I have to get up before dawn to drive up there, twice!

The whole lot of them should be fired! They’ve been told that their claim is without merit by the courts and their union, but they’ve decided to shut down vital infrastructure anyway. Greedy bastards!

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