Summer 2022 thread!

[sonofrgmsdad]

Pre season training starts in a couple of days doesn't it?

I thought we wanted all our signings to be in place before that.

Same every season. McInnes said it, Glass said it and Goodwin said it. Never happens. Don't know why they bother knowing it won't happen.

[Jupiter]

Isn't it a bit early to be starting pre season training?

[donsdaft]

Yes but it's ok.
There's nobody left to train.

[57vintage]

Anyone training during the upcoming RMT industrial action is a filthy scab.

[donsdaft]

Good opportunity to drive a train.

If they don’t want their jobs they can leave.

[RED_JOHN]

Anyone training during the upcoming RMT industrial action is a filthy scab.

You are going off rail again

[phuxachemin]

You are going off rail again

Time we got this thread back on track

[Shetland Don]

Anyone training during the upcoming RMT industrial action is a filthy scab.

I have no time for Unions and the Scargill/Hatton types who claim to be left wing militants - remember what Hatton did after his political “career”!? Shameless. How many normal workers in the private sector are guaranteed annual wage increases funded by the taxpayers!?

[Donanddusted]

This is the age of the train.

[57vintage]

Good opportunity to drive a train.

If they don’t want their jobs they can leave.

Wrong union min. ASLEF is the drivers’ union, and they recently decided that the work/life balance to which caring capitalists and weaselly politicians claim to subscribe - until it’s put to the test - was more important than voluntary Sunday working and overtime. It won them a 5% wage increase. Not the union’s fault that the frachisees fail to employ enough staff to allow the 4-day week that’s a current aspiration. Drivers have difficulty in working from home. Good work, ASLEF.

The RMT’s membership covers most, but not all, other railway workers - ticket office staff, guards, barrier staff, refreshment trolley and buffet wranglers etc, and most importantly, Network Rail staff responsible for signalling, and track and infrastructure safety. If they’re taking action, the trains don’t move. They’re actually not saying they ‘don’t want the job’, as part of the dispute is about the threat to Network Rail jobs, eg on-board staff redundancies, ticket office closures and reduced opening hours - a bit like having no fuucking walk-up cash gate at Pittodrie. These workers are as innocent as you and me for inflation galloping towards 10%, and home energy bills soaring like the sitter Davie Robb missed from six yards oot against Clyde in the 1970 Scottish Cup tie.

Next up: the GMB nae emptying your bucket, NHS staff and teachers saying ‘fuuck it, patronising virtue-signalling applause on a Thursday night helps not a sausage in being able to afford a half-pun of them fae Morrice the Butcher’.

Just a tiny flex of the muscle so far.