Solidarity with the workers, in the railways and across the whole economy. The solution to the cost of living crisis is lower profits and higher wages.

Solidarity with rail workers and fair play on unions

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While Kier starmer shows what a poor choice he is for the Labour party sacking Sam shame on starmer he needs to be replaced he s shown he s not for the workers

Hi, it is not just pay, it is job security, maintaining working conditions and hours and a wage to keep pace with inflation.

Solidarity with the RMT and all underpaid workers.

I wonder how long it took them to find selfish people moaning about strikes for them to push their narrative. Solidarity with rail workers and fair play on unions

Good. Hold their feet to the fire, get every penny you're worth and not one less!

Solidarity for the workers. Good for them

The power of solidarity and community. I support the workers and their right to strike.

Labour should be dominating on this issue. They are the LABOUR party FFS. Instead Kier Starmer is running scared of Rupert Murdoch. He's a coward and a sell-out. 😡 Well done Sam Tarry ✊

I fully support the strikes, workers need a fair deal!

I am thankful for what my union in the Netherlands did when they negotiated our severance pay with my US employer when they decided to close down their presence in the Netherlands. We, the staff and the staff representatives, delegated our union to negotiate the terms. The union doesn't have to put every offer the employer makes up for voting. They only have to keep the staff representatives informed of the progress of the negotiation. I was so gratefull that I continued paying my monthly dues to the union for 12 years even after I left the Netherlands to work elsewhere.

When you suddenly realize that voting for Tories in power for 12+ years is a bad idea. Wait, but they are still in power: trust the Tories at your own peril.

'Its about putting the users of this service first' I didn't hear them saying this when they made train travel more expensive then air travel. I didn't hear them saying this when they privatised the profit making areas and left the public to find the rail infrastructure. Disgraceful, shameful, lying government. Get rid of them ASAP.

Solidarity with workers

Good the strikers, well done! Now the rest of the country. Barb

Railways back into public ownership. Starmer is part of the establishment. Revolution is required.

Are the MP’s getting a pay rise?

Why do MPs get above inflation pay rises but not other public sector workers?

Well done you guys. Fight for your RIGHTS. Let the Ministers who are having a huge salary & enjoying their wealth take notice of your hardship. May God hear your appeals. Yea, let those who DEPEND on your rail services also STAND UP WITH YOU & speak up for you guys.

The lack of empathy with some people who are clearly "alright Jack" and some who are also struggling, clearly highlights ignorance and selfishness. Imagine how they'd complain if the poor nurses or hospital staff went on strike.

Solidarity with all rail workers

If Labour no longer supports Unions, it's no longer the Labour Party.

It's not about modernisation - we have more than enough to ensure best quality living. It's the distribution of wealth that's the problem.

Solidarity

go, workers. Lizzie is throwing oil on the fire. She is the biggest risk the UK has seen in a century.

Solidarity with real workers ✊

Up the workers✊

Stand with the Unions.

The trains have earned a fortune over the years packing us in like sardines in such a way that trains were never disign to run and they wouldn't have done their costing based on such a system.

If fairness and justice is to be achieved sadly there must be pain. If we lose this EVERYONE will suffer.

Why didn't Channel 4 ask the Chief Exec of Network Rail how much his salary is and how much of a pay increase he received?

take away right to strike, take away democracy ...

Solidarity with the strikers 👍 😊

This is the result of 10 years of cuts (in real terms). Government own website: "Around 40% of working-age adults in workless families were in *relative poverty* before housing costs in 2019/20" "Around one in six people in the UK are in relative low income before housing costs (BHC), rising to around one in five once we account for housing costs (AHC)."

Hainess is on 600k per annum plus bonus. He gave himself 6.5% increase last year

Solidarity to the workers, shame on the media.

“And the train arriving at Platform number 10 is the gravy train to Easy Street.”

8% over 3 years, He really thinks that's acceptable in the present climate? Well his 600k salary really seems unpalatable by anyone with any sense of justice.

10:00, that women is ignorant. This is why working class is screwed. What RMT is doing RIGHT NOW is fighting not only their pay raises but they are FIGHTING for the working class. RMT is showing the other working people that WE HAVE THE POWER to change things but if you just go along with corrupt system, YOU WILL LIVE YOUR LIFE POOR until you die poor.

When you can't feed your family or pay your bills, a sporting event pales into insignificance. Solidarity with the rail workers 💪

Solidarity with the rail workers ✊

The public mood has shifted. People support the strike and the RMT, Mick Lynch and Eddie Dempsey are the most popular men in the country right now. Nobody wants Starmer Tory-lite.

You know it's bad when the TSSA go out, they hardly did (if ever) when I was on the railway (RMT member) back in the 80s / 90s

Power never exceeds to demands without a threat. Fight, fight, fight.

Power to RMT and workers rights. Enough is enough!!!!!

Anyone who uses the term "militant trade unions" should not be allowed to be in power.

I’m loving these comments. More people need to stand up for their rights and for a better life.

Starmer should resign immediately

Bloke is full of it. Network rail should be ashamed!!!!

Well done to the unions for making a stand. We need more unions and more worker rights. Why should the rich eat most of the pie we bake?

When senior managers and MPs show pay restraint I'll vote in favour of my pay offer as I did during covid in solidarity with those who weren't fortunate to have the job security and conditions I have. Until then I'll continue to encourage colleagues to use their collective position and refuse it. The only way forward from austerity and the wealth moving upwards is to say we won't accept trickle down BS and we want a bottom up approach.

I'd like to know what the pay increase (inc bonuses) for the CEO of Network Rail was between 2021 and 2022; I bet your bottom dollar it was more than 4%.

WELL DONE MICK LYNCH SOLIDARITY TO MY FELLEW RMT MEMBERS

**Support the Strikes**

I'm a rail worker, and the last thing we want is to disrupt the lives of our customers! Believe it or not, the average train driver out there actually does care about the customers. But right now, we're desperately afraid that there won't be anything left of the railway in 2 years if this government gets its way, and that's why we (and our colleagues in other sectors of the railway) are opting for temporary disruption as opposed to the permanent disruption that will be there if the government dessimates the railway like it wants to! Remember, this isn't just about pay. This is about job security, safety, etc. As it stands now, almost every train I drive is delayed because of countless speed restrictions on the line because Network Rail aren't being allowed to invest money in fixing things. If the government cuts 2000 jobs as it wants to do, the infrastructure will collapse, and worst case scenario is that people will die because trains will derail (which we're already close to as some parts of the tracks are so bad, we can't go through at line speed any more). The government also wants to close all ticket offices, and get rid of all train guards. This will make the railway so unsafe! We've already seen at stations where there are no staff, drug dealers and gangs take over, intimidating passengers, vandalising stations, etc. Not to mention extremely unsafe dispatch methods. My company has already got rid of guards. When I pull into a station with a 12 car train, with 800 people on board, and I've got 16 tiny cameras as my only means of checking the side of the train, with sunlight obscuring the view, bugs covering the camera lenses, and the cheapest technology the company can get away with so the cameras blur and flicker all the time, someone could easily fall down the side of the train and I wouldn't know. Not to mention, there will be no one to assists disabled or elderly passengers. Our railway could be so incredibly good, but this government seems to want to destroy it completely for their own short-term profit! Sorry, for such a long write-up, but please remember that this is WAY more than just a fight for a pay rise. This is fight for the future of the railway itself! And I guarantee you, if we lose this one, the government will be after the NHS next!

Absolute solidarity with the workers!

If something is an "essential PUBLIC service" why is it in private hands?

40,000 workers who on strike because they believe they're getting fleeced, 1 Politician, and 1 CEO saying they are militant and should put up with it. I thought we lived in a democracy?

Solidarity with all workers. 👏

Cut the transport minister pay and kindly asked him to work on Sunday for the same money with no time on off see what's is response

hate strikes but gotta say - I agree with what he is saying

And Mick comes in at the end to sweep up all the BS and drop some truths. Good. The general public needs to hear this. We never have a voice in media. Mick speaks to and for a larger number of the public than Labour and the Tories do.

"They've gotta think about others not just themselves" That's literally what they're doing you silly person

Not a single comment from any interviewer or interviewee on whether rail workers should actually get a rise and that would be another good way to "put a stop" to this rather than finding new legislation to stamp out their right to protest and say how unfair it is on the public and the country and how selfish they're being etc... Not a word about the general disparity of wealth that is behind the whole thing.

I hear people saying: "Well I also didn't get raises, nurses and doctors are also earning less". Yes, exactly. They should also earn more but sadly don't have a strong union. Remember what unions and socialists got you: abolishment of child labour, 5 instead of 7 day work week, 8 instead of 12 hour shifts, paid leave... These things were not brought about on its own. Strike as long as is necessary. We support you!

And of course Labour ends up looking bad to all possible constituents...

Well done Sam Tarry! I know he got fired but he did what Keir Starmer should be doing!!! But of course Keir Starmer is a Tory with a Labour tie!

"discounted travel" wtf, is that a joke?

My full support for the workers.

I'm a pensioner, 79 years and living alone. No point in us going on strike is there?

Don't be mad at them for fighting for their worth. Start fighting for your own worth!

a general strike is what is necessary , and ally it to mass non payment of utility bills (cancel direct debits to make this work ) for those also not in work to show solidarity and achieve real change to reverse 12 years of tory theft of our wealth

I support industrial action. We need to support the unions and workers in our efforts to create a more fair and equal society.

Keep it up. 💯 % support

Who cares about "reduced revenues" if the company is still making a huge NET profit that's going straight to the top. NET profit needs to be shared in a far more equitable way. People earning hundreds of thousands have no grounds to tell people who earn 25k-40k that they can't get a pay rise. Every time I see economic issues being discussed on Legacy Media, they always ignore the NET, shareholder dividends, CEO bonus' etc

Damn, how the worm has turned. Yrs ago, comments would have shown the public at large unhappy at the strikers. Now, support is almost universal in recognition that we are all being taken for a ride as inequality widens,

Solidarity with the RMT. The fact that they have been called militant (lol) goes to show how much of an impact they are having.

so many people criticize the workers, but no one criticizes the CEOs and shareholders who increased the profits in a time when the salary of the workers went down but forget the rails are running because of the workers not because of the CEOs. the unions would not be on strike without the possibility of the impression of the workers. if all workers quit on the railways there is no company anymore, and no one will work if they can not make a living out of it. make clear, that if the engineers are not keeping the railways or trains in working conditions there is no railways, the shareholders will sell them quickly and no one can use them. it was a great idea to get private shareholders in public service

Solidarity and Support for underpaid and disrespected Workers throughout the UK 🇬🇧

Hypocritical of a Tory to criticise unions for operating on certain principles that date from 1919 when they are in amidst of a party leadership race organised by a committee that has principles from 1922 and indeed is known as the '1922 Committee'. Once again, as with partying during lockdown, one rule for them and a set of rules for everyone else.

SOLIDARITY TO ALL WORKERS YOU DESERVE BETTER. NATIONAL STRIKE NEEDED ACROSS THE BOARD

50% cut in maintenance. But billions of 'profits' are funnelled to the top. It's not just about wages.

and by the way, that minister said, "we need to modernize our railway system", and how do you do that? the railway system is private, mostly under control from companies, they are not obliged to do so, one of the so called freedom of privatizations. public transport, power, water supply and some other key areas, were never ment to be in private hands, this are goods of the state / people. since the UK gov. has made the decisions to sell these assests to private companies, they sold out the state, removed control over certain things, but the thick hads of UK people, do not see this, "we have an empire", we do not need water, electricity or transportation means, because we have an empire. good bye UK

From what planet is Grant Shapps? Surely Sunday was traditionally almost the only day of leisure (or half day) that some working people enjoyed; to the point that when “Sunday Working” was introduced, employers were not permitted to force established employees to work it, and it could only be enforced with new employment contracts.

As a train passenger, you have my fullest support. Well done strikers!!!

Why pay Transport Minister Grant Schapps salary-he solves nothing-he won't negotiate-doesn't know how to and What does he do all day/ He lacks good faith!

Bravo to those hard railway workers. Pay them fairly like those useless MPs. 8 percent in 3 years is not fair.

MPs get 8 pay rises in 10 years while nurses salaries are slashed Average pay for all nurses - regardless of which salary category they fall into - has fallen by 7.4 per cent since 2010. MP’s with a recourse to a higher body went from £65,738 to £81,932 over the 12 years period (since 2010) which is a 24.6342% increase. While local authority workers had a rise year rise 2010 0% 2011 0% 2012 0% 2013 1% 2014 2.2% 2015 2.2% 2016 1% 2017 1% 2018 2% 2019 2% 2020 3% 2021 2.75% 2022 0.0175% Local government workers have lost on average 27.5% from the value of their pay spine since 2010, so how can they tell me that wages rises cause inflation. Me thinks that some people need to take the plank out of their own eyes before they take the speck of sawdust out of their neighbours.

Solidarity with rail workers who are demanding better.

Small wonder the Tories and Network Rail are losing the PR battle. Just look into the eyes of liars. Wonder how their pay rises compare btw

Who is that tool of a reporter? The derisory tone when talking to workers and Labour is absent when tugging his forelock to rail bosses and the government. Why didn’t he ask tough about bloated profits taken out of the industry?

Pay the workers now and the strike will be over. The ball is in your court, bosses

Everybody should strike. The rich need to show some respect.

Everybody Strike Now !

Put it to a referendum he said, what he actually means is hopefully we can split workers solidarity, stick with it folks the world is watching and supporting you.

Unity is strength

Andrew Haines trying to pass this off as a good deal and READILY stating that it is, in real terms, a pay cut is INSANE. How people have the audacity to stand there like that and suggest that it's a good deal is unreal. Y'all keep striking! Solidarity from the US.

Well done Sam Tarry! Labour needs to rid itself of Starmer!