How so? What I stated are facts.
CER setup in 1999
Well you said that Irish rail cant cut costs because of the Union. But the also cant cut costs because of the Government, as has been pointed out above. You cant lay all the blame at the union.
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As for the decade long pay freeze, from 2006 to 2016, the average salary in IE increased from 47612 to 55371, a whopping 16%. in the same period, pension costs have gone from 19m with 5114 employees on the books to 26m with 3772 employes, or while the workforce has fallen by 27% the pension costs have shot up by a whopping 30%
So they’ve already reclaimed any cuts they had to take.
It still does not change the fact that relatively speaking they are already very well paid for the job they do.
You realize that by cutting off the service there that those people working that line will simply be reassigned by IR instead of being made redundant, which is probably what should happen as IR is so over staffed anyway. That is a no go with the Union.
I’m not going to sit here and defend the government either, just making sure you realize that everything has the Union’s involvement.
Can you get a link showing that the union’s accepted this or it actually went ahead?
Did you take a day off work at your employers expense to repeat the same shit over and over again, the same shit you repeated over and over again last week,
We get it mate, nurses are great, everybody else is shit at their job and overpaid,
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Who’s in a hurry to go down there?
I don’t suppose you were going to cure cancer in the thirty minutes you lost.
Anyone see that joker with the hat in Galway on the news there?
Seriously out of pocket? Yeah - from busking maybe.
He didn’t know the strike was on apparently. 
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I’m sick, mate.
They couldn’t have got more Galway than that ‘character’. I’d say he didn’t know it was on because he was stoned out of his tree.
No but I’m a patient in a psychiatric institution and the nurses are superb.
I’m not too great myself but I went out to work anyway, are you very bad?
Dunno mate, but he holds them up as the profession we should all take example from, being as insular as he is I can practically guarantee that he has a close family member on the wards.
Saw this mentioned a few times. Could you really go cork to Dublin in 2 1/2 hours 30 years ago. I dont remember that far back tbh
Don’t think so. It was about 2:20 to Charleville.
Indeed. Id be surprised if it was. Vast majority of trains on route only stop mallow, lmk junction and thurles now which has to have speeded it up
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@Ambrose_McNulty is 100% correct on this. To leave competitors into the market the ESB had to increase their prices by 14%, the prices didn’t drop back ever since.
It’s gas to see the anti union sheep so animated about a trade union exercising their muscle against the rise of capitalism and privatization of vital public services.
A great example is the refuse collection services which were privatized, a small local charge at first, put down to environmental needs at first, a slow build up to full charges and now, bang, another tax on those already paying their taxes, the water shambles another scam that didn’t go to plan for FG, transport is obviously on the cards now to be sold to capitalism.
But don’t ye lads worry. Keep the working man down and vilify him if he stands up to capitalism by striking. Eventually the capitalists will own and control every aspect of our lives and decide how much we pay to get a bus or train.
FG will sell all of our infrastructure to the capitalists and set us back to times when employers/capitalists will own us again.
It’s happening on a global scale and the so called recession has helped the billionaires to set workers rights back to the early 70s again.
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