Railroads resist joining safety hotline because they want to be able to discipline workers - ABC News

>The major freight railroads say a disagreement over whether they will be allowed to discipline some workers who use a government hotline to report safety concerns has kept them from following through on the promise they made back in March to join the program after a fiery Ohio derailment prompted calls for reforms.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/railroads-resist-joining-safety-hotline-discipline-workers-102549834 #workersrights #union #labor #unions #labout

@Skembear

...furthermore - what is the strategy? To ensure #labout lose and get someone more acceptable as leader for another 5 years in opposition? Great plan! (sarcastic)

Ah #Starmer. Now the path is clear your big plan is to be a Red Tory. What happened? Murdoch get on the phone to you? Representatives of big business? Get in the sea you useless turnip.

#Labout #UK

So #thetimes thinks that the unions will run out of money by spring.

But, I think that what this mean is that by not negotiating, the #tory government intends to empty the union coffers and starve #labout of funding for the next election and break the strikes at the same time.

I know the article is behind a paywall but AFAIK non-subscribers get a few free articles each month.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/strike-costs-will-force-unions-into-climbdown-gs2z7ltsp

@Gurggles #Labour has abandoned #Scotland in a bid to win back the seats they lost in the last GE. Not only no deals, but will completely ignore the people of Scotland. Yet at the same time, their councillors are more than willing to do deals with any party just to keep the #SNP out - even where the #SNP has had the largest share of the vote they have formed coalitions with all and sundry. #Labout & #Conservatives Anglo-British Nationalists, two cheeks of the same arse.