Support the New Year's Eve London Tube Strike

[Vanguard1917]

It looks like the RMT is going to go ahead with the new year's eve tube strike in London.

Support the strike! Let England's capital come to a standstill on one of its busiest days of the year! Let the workers realise their might!

Because it's better to be a picket than a scab - even on new year's eve!

Ignore Ken Livingstone! Because it's better to walk than be a scab!

[LA GUERRA OLVIDADA]

What's tube? Subway?

[Enragé]

Originally posted by LA GUERRA [email protected] 30 2005, 12:53 AM
What's tube? Subway?
yep

[Guerrilla22]

Ok, I'm definitely not taking the subway on New Years eve in
London, the more drunks on the rode the better!

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Do you have a link where I can get more information?

[h&s]

Here's one:
http://www.rmt.org.uk/C2B/PressOffice/disp...?ID=1818&Type=2 (http://www.rmt.org.uk/C2B/PressOffice/display.asp?ID=1818&Type=2)

Ken Livingston really does disgust me - this isn't the first time he's called for people to scab a tube strike. He represents just how shit the mainstream left has got these days.
And he writes in the Morning Star, which claims to be a &#39;Socialist Daily&#39; :rolleyes: <_<

[bolshevik butcher]

I thought that was produced by the communist party :o

And, yeh, Ken Livingston shows how the social democratic has let down the working class yet again.

[Goatse]

Support the New Year&#39;s Eve London Tube Strike

I could have sworn that said "Lube Strike".

Anyway, how can we support it away from London?

[DaCuBaN]

I&#39;m in total support... I hope the people of London have the means to show their support too. With the congestion charges in the centre, only the rich now have the means to drive to and from the centre of the city (and to think they had the gall to try and get Chelsea exempt).

My only concern is that the response of your average Londoner (who unfortunately in this day and age can best be described as a either a "rich wanker" or a "reactionary fool") will react in the same fashion as to the strikes as they did to the disabling of the tube earlier this year.

[Kez]

Im not convinced how smart a day it was to choose New Years Eve. This is a day people have for enjoyment, a large section have the day off, and if your a worker, you dont get many days off, so on one of the few days you do get the day off, and u cant afford to drive into town, and u cant get the tube, your quite fucked.

Wouldnt it have been better to have on the first day BACK to work? like the 2nd or 3rd?

If theres an argument for it to be on New Years eve, please inform me.

If your not in london, im sure you can send solidarity messages to the strikers through the union website? or maybe they also have unofficial RMT (the tubes uunion) sites which are more in control of workers? Solidarity messages are very important, and do have a significant effect on moral. They also national and internationalise the workers struggle, puts it into perspective.

in struggle,

[Guerrilla22]

Originally posted by [email protected] 30 2005, 12:48 PM
Im not convinced how smart a day it was to choose New Years Eve. This is a day people have for enjoyment, a large section have the day off, and if your a worker, you dont get many days off, so on one of the few days you do get the day off, and u cant afford to drive into town, and u cant get the tube, your quite fucked.

Wouldnt it have been better to have on the first day BACK to work? like the 2nd or 3rd?

If theres an argument for it to be on New Years eve, please inform me.

If your not in london, im sure you can send solidarity messages to the strikers through the union website? or maybe they also have unofficial RMT (the tubes uunion) sites which are more in control of workers? Solidarity messages are very important, and do have a significant effect on moral. They also national and internationalise the workers struggle, puts it into perspective.

in struggle,
I have mixed feelings about this too, I like the fact that I can use mass transit for free on New Year&#39;s day in Denver. However, it will definitely get the attention of the City government officials by starting the strike on New Year&#39;s.

[bolshevik butcher]

Well the argu,ment I heard was that it was the first avialable day, because the union had their offfices open on the last day before they went on holdiay and still no negotaiatiors came so they had a strike on the first day they could organize one on.