Sack Bolshie train drivers

[patslatt]

On the news today,all passenger rail service was cancelled between Dublin and Cork. It seems the dispute was caused by one individual's refusal to help train a new driver.

Will this train driver bickering ever end? The disruption to this very vital public service by this small group is unconscionable. What about ill people who need the service to attend hospital appointments in Dublin,for example? Many drivers think they are in a 1970s time warp of intransigent Bolshie union tactics.

If they don't want to work,they deserve to be sacked from their well paid,permenent pensionable jobs.

[politicaldonations]

Sack the semi state leeches who think the service exists to serve them.

[fergalr]

It's always the Cork line. This does need to be sorted out because it is always - and apparently exclusively - the Cork line.

[Rebel CNC]

Train drivers are a bit like the nursing unions - they bleat on about how their only priority is the safety of passengers and comfort and health of patients respectively but when it comes down to it, the protection of their rigid and archaic work practices comes before all else.

The maternity nurses in the Bons Secours hospital in Cork delayed the opening of the new maternity wing in CUH because they wanted relocation and disruption allowances for moving to a more modern facility less than two miles away with better facilities, parking and transport links!!

[returning officer]

It's always the Cork line. This does need to be sorted out because it is always - and apparently exclusively - the Cork line.

Yes, purge the Bolshies.
But don't stop with the rain drivers, how about these 28,000 impact workers refuding to take extra load while, 2500 jobs remain vacant. Abolish those jobs, re-assign the duties formally (with proper pay incremental increase) and enforce disipline proceedings against those who refuse to compy, I'm sure there are may grounds which a work to rule would allow for.
Then do the same to the quangoes, other semi-states and each line department. Abolish the jobs, re-assign the duties, then sack.

[red365]

Don't talk to me about train drivers! Overpaid and underskilled the lot of them.

[just_society]

Completely agree.

Of all the unionised professions in Ireland, the most petty, unreasonable, bolshevik wannabe's have to be a set of renegade train drivers belonging to a rogue union that operates in Limerick and Cork. Can you imagine any other profession where refusal to train a new colleague would be tolerated? If I recall correctly the last dispute centered around a a refusal to operate a new carraige type without extra pay.

He and others like him should be fired immediately.

[fergalr]

Great, and then we'll have the ATGWU and probably SIPTU blustering onto their soapboxes. I'll never forget the public transport strikeabout eight years ago.

[odie1kanobe]

Great, and then we'll have the ATGWU and probably SIPTU blustering onto their soapboxes. I'll never forget the public transport strikeabout eight years ago.

Easy way to sort that is allow private companies run the buses and trains.

[Pidge]

What was the basis for refusing to train the newbie?