BBC Scotland news, fail. Scotrail strikes.

[Ribenapigeon]

So BBC Scotland news reported that there may be disruption due to potential strike action by workers. Not once did they report on what the strike was about. Balanced news? Anyone who thinks the been is on the left must be nuts. It was such a blatant omission.

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I blame UKIP.
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[Ste]

Unions raging... that'll increase public support for Labour.

[oldpink]

4000 people protested outside their office and the didn't report that
what do you expect
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[Lord Percy]

Most information I got from the news is that they want their pay to rise fairly.

People argue that they're just greedy and want more money. I read that they had their pay frozen for four years of inflation, so essentially their wages don't go as far as they did in 2010, and that's the issue.

The reason it makes the headlines is because rail services affect the nation, and then the nation gets pissed off about it. If something like the national union of roof tile installation labourers went on strike, I'm sure the public would more readily take the side of the strikers.

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[Ste]

There's no shortage of information about the greedy unions and the chaos they intentionally cause with (the threat of) their strikes.

It's really fucking blindingly obvious that news reports about the Unions will create strong anti-union feelings. The unions know that, that's exactly what they set out to do. They don't have any argument based on logic or reasoning or anything like that, the only thing they've got going for them is their ability to hold the country to ransom. Which is just the same as Nicola Sturgeon and her SNP buddies.

Anyway, once the new anti-strike laws come through we won't have to put up with unions trying to tear the country apart.

[Ribenapigeon]

I knew when I made the thread people would weigh in with their pro or con views on unions. That's not the point of my op. The point is how much goes on that's not reported by the mainstream news.

[Ste]

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It only makes the news because it has a chance of causing major disruption to people's bank holiday travel pans.
If a company in the private sector doesn't give a pay rise as big as the employees want, should this make national news too?
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[Lord Percy]

[smegballs]

What I think is funny is left-leaning people say:"this terrible right biased BBC". Then right-leaning people say:"this terrible left biased BBC".

Now trying to avoid the logical fallacy of appeal to moderation, maybe they are doing a reasonable job? Or more likely they have an agenda (as all media outlets do) and supporting that agenda means some articles end up with right-bias and some articles end up with left-bias.

Of course thinking in simple left vs right terms doesn't actually get very far as the political landscape has at least two axes (or a cube by some systems too even), a fact which is no doubt exploited by mainstream politics.

[stinkwheel]

If they want a pay rise in line with inflation... that would equate to no pay rise.

Railway unions in particular have been on the gravy train for far too long. Too many people doing fuck-all for too much money.

Same thing was happening at the Grangemouth refinery, I know people who were "working" there and frankly, it took the piss the deal they were getting. The peole who were running it thought so to and told them if they went out on strike one more time, the factory would be shut down, production moived overseas and they'd all be made redundant.

Many Railway workers, like public sector workers, don't know how lucky they are with the deal they have and would be well advised to keep their heads down in my oppinion. They are lucky they work in a sector that "can't" be allowed to shut down or they might find their bluff being similarly called.

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So yeah. Boo. Hoo. Hoo. Poor hard-done-by train drivers. Don't be fooled by my deeply cynical tone and expression, I'm crying inside for them.
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