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Support the workers against the bullying bosses at Dublin Bus
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Wednesday November 14, 2007 23:41 by D. Freeman - WSM
BEWARE Bullying Bosses abound! Related Links: Harristown Drivers marching on Dublin Bus HQ | Support the Dublin Bus strike (via swp.ie) | NBRU statement on the strike. | SIPTU statement | IWU support statement| Dublin Bus services affected by the actions of management
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Most of the drivers can start AND finish in the city centre, and don't need to go to the depot. Why don't they do that? Because they want to park their car for free in a depot car park space paid for by the taxpayer!
Yeah, that must be it, the bus workers are out on strike and risking it over car parking! The mind boggles. And the taxpayer reference? The depot and the car park spaces will still exist regardless, what's your point? Such a strange and weak argument.
The coverage of the strike in yesterday's Irish Daily Mail was unadulterated red-baiting. Taking its prompt from RTE's 'Morning Ireland' it published a demonising piece firmly in the tradition of the vicious verbal assaults by Independent Newspapers on Brendan Ogle during the ILDA strike and on the TEAM Aer Lingus stewards ("Aerheads") during their strike.
Another Sell-Out on the way?
Fair play to the striking Dublin Busworkers at Harristown for taking a stand against further attacks on their working conditions! They need to be supported 100%! I just have a sickening sense so overpowering that it’s sickening that the Busworkers are going to be stabbed in the back yet again by the ‘Unions’ especially SIPTU! You can hear and see the elation, joy and relief in the voice of Willie Noone, SIPTU’s Dublin Bus Rep, that he might be able to stitch yet another sell-out on the Busworkers now that, that poxy Labour Court (No friend of the Workers!) has decided that there is sufficient common ground (Sell-Out!) to invite both sides back to talks this weekend.
Am I right in suspecting that another Sell-Out of even greater magnitude is about to be attempted to be foisted on the Busworkers? If such a Sell-Out is tried to be forced onto the Busworkers, I believe, and indeed hope that the Busworkers will strongly resist this, even if means going Unofficial! Indeed, they should spread the dispute to the other 6 Dublin Bus Garages, regardless of what the ‘Unions’ say or threaten. This is the only way to bring this Dispute to a speedy resolution on terms that won’t attack the drivers working conditions. From talking to Bus Drivers who I know, both in Harristown and elsewhere, the Drivers in Harristown will get almost unanimous support if they spread the Dispute by placing pickets on the other 6 Dublin Bus Garages, even if they are Unofficial.
Yeah, that must be it, the bus workers are out on strike and risking it over car parking! The mind boggles. And the taxpayer reference? The depot and the car park spaces will still exist regardless, what's your point? Such a strange and weak argument.
Whoever you are who wrote this (for you don't give a name or handle), try and comprehend, it's about car parking only in as much as parking a car in Dublin costs money. REAL money, an average of about €2.70 per hour. On a complete shift, that would mean a driver would have to pay somewhere between €25 and €30 per DAY out of his own pocket to park his car in town. In the alternative, he would have to spend an extra hour to an hour and a half effectively at work if he parked his car in Harristown. Nobody in their right mind is going to do either without a battle. If you were willing to do such a thing I'd consider you a fool. Why should I be one?
It is unfortunate that so many people today are so miserable with their lives, so depressed and self-loathing about the treadmill they find themselves on daily that their only thought is to drag down those who are still fighting for their rights and dignity, rather than aspiring to the same dignity for themselves. Is this what you teach your children? If so, small wonder this country has become what it's become.
Sorry, that was sarcasm on my part directed at www. I totally support you guys and girls 110%. I know it's time and money but it's also alot more than just that, it's a change in work conditions, it's a struggle against management, it's changes that if not stopped here will spread, etc. It was more just the small knock on effects of all this are being portrayed in the media as what it's about. If you were to believe RTE and mainstream newspapers, you'd think it was over where you take your lunch breaks and where you park your car. It blurs/conflates/confuses the issues. And I felt this was an attitude www was repeating but I should have been a bit more mature in my response. Apologies and solidarity!
"It is unfortunate that so many people today are so miserable with their lives, so depressed and self-loathing about the treadmill they find themselves on daily that their only thought is to drag down those who are still fighting for their rights and dignity, rather than aspiring to the same dignity for themselves."
I don't own a car so I depend on the buses to get me to work in the morning.
I'm not miserable or depressed or full of self-loathing.
I enjoy working and I love living in Dublin.
Fair play if you want your rights and dignity from Dublin Bus but why punish ordinary guys like me?
Are the rest of us just "collatoral damage" or what?
Great to see the drivers have seen sense, and abondoned this shamefull act. Looking forward to seeing them operate the new routes tomorrow
Have the WSM lost all capacity to use rational evidence to support their arguments? Although i support the bus workers, this article covers none of the issues at hand. Its full of the same old boring sound bites.
Its the same old 'bosses' this, 'bosses' that bullshit. Seriously lads, your propaganda is worse than the SWP these days, not to mention your aggressive recruitment strategies.
You guys should set up a stall at Charlies Checkpoint.
I don't support the workers, I support the recommendations of the Labour Court and they should too. The people of Dublin are sick of their beal bocht claptrap. If they don't like the new conditions, they can go get a job in the private sector and let other, more willing, workers take up these lucrative jobs.