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#RatedSMOOTH
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Let me break down for you the current rail dispute between the
@RMTUnion
and Network Rail and the 14 other train operating companies.
The following tweets will contain information that the media and the politicians are conveniently not telling you.
Have a read. A THREAD! π§΅
I hope this thread has kept you informed of whatβs going on regarding the rail strikes.
Iβll leave you with this from
@AyoCaesar
who spoke brilliantly on
@GMB
earlier this year.
Solidarity with every single worker whoβs choosing to go on strike. You have my support. βπΎ
Thornton Heath station this morning.
You guys need to move that rubbish asap, itβs blocking access to the lift.
How are wheelchair users, parents with pushchairs, visually impaired passengers meant to use the lift?
Answer quickly.
@SouthernRailUK
Hayfever sufferers.
Go and buy Allevia or Treathay.
They are anti-histamines which have fexofenadine in them. Thatβs the active ingredient (or the βcrackβ) thatβs in the tablets.
Amazon or Boots.
Trust me. You will enjoy your summer.
βFor this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted the desires of my heart.β - 1 Samuel 1:27 π
On Saturday 9th October 2021 at 4.24pm, my daughter - Eden Phoenix Adwoa Senior Mensah - was born, weighing 6lbs 7oz. πΆπΎ
Iβm a father. ππΎπππΎβ€οΈ
Over the last couple of weeks, some sections of the media have gone on non-stop about migrant workers rights in Qatar whilst at the same time, vilify rail workers and nurses here for striking, who are also fighting for their rights.
SUPPORT THEM ALL.
Last week, it was reported in the Financial Times that the TOCs were ready to offer a 10% pay rise over 2 years but the government blocked it by adding conditions to the deal that they knew the
@RMTunion
would never accept.
Itβs worth noting that the government didnβt deny this.
Let me show you a recent example of how unsafe it could be to have drivers operating doors on trains that they wonβt be able to see the full length of them.
If most/all the cameras are obscured, would you say itβs safe for a driver to close the doors?
Answer: NO, itβs not.
So instead of giving the TOCs the licence to freely negotiate with the
@RMTunion
and settle the dispute, the government have chosen to let workers go on strike (and lose pay whilst doing so) and pay the companies top-up money so they can continue making profits.
These execs are allowed to get paid six-figure salaries but βjournalistsβ like Piers Morgan or Nick Ferrari will shamelessly question union leaders on how much they earn! THE IRONY!
A deliberate media tactic endorsed by the rail companies and the government.
DONβT FALL FOR IT!
The cuts include:
- reducing the Network RaΓl maintenance staff scheduling by HALF
This is the main attack on jobs, that will compromise safety and increase the likelihood of defective track equipment being missed for repairβ¦which could lead to rail accidents.
The CEOs of these companies are being paid huge salaries and they have the audacity to come and tell the workers who generate the profits that they canβt possibly afford to increase workersβ wages!
Have a look at the amounts of money these people are on. Obscene.
Margaret from Dorset will ask: βWhy canβt they just do the strikes after Christmas? Now is the wrong time to strike!β
Margaret, dear. The WHOLE point of industrial action is to ensure it has maximum impact of disruption so it brings the bosses to the table to negotiate.
Itβs also important to make clear that since first set of rail strikes in June, the government has paid around Β£320,000,000 to the train companies that the
@RMTunion
is in dispute with to cover the loss of revenue on strike daysβ¦
Some women are actually jokes.
βI love me a cool, calm and collected man.β
βA softly spoken man >>>>>β
...but you yourself, you are a mad woman.
What calm guy is going to want their equilibrium disrupted please? Stay over there man π
Another line from the Conservatives that they love π
'β¦maybe the Labour Party should get on the phone with their union paymasters and tell them to call off the strikes!'
The
@RMTunion
has not been affiliated with the Labour Party since 2004.
Thereβs a few other myths that the media keep pushing that we should debunk right now.
Firstly, the average salary for a railway worker is NOT Β£44000. Itβs actually closer to the national average of Β£29000.
If they were all on Β£44000, they wouldnβt be on strike. Be guided.
Hereβs
@AaronBastani
from
@NovaraMedia
who explains the above point.
The fatcats at the private rail companies are taking every single person who pays extortionate train fares for FOOLS and theyβre being aided by the government and the media to hide these things from the light.
So when you hear either the Transport Secretary (Mark Harper) or the Network Rail CEO (Andrew Haines) asking for RMT to come back to the table to continue the talks, please ignore them.
The RMT has consistently asked for talks and only until recently did the employers oblige.
Β£31bn was put into the rail industry since 2020 because the government decided to make the rail industry exempt from from placing workers on furlough during the height of the COVID crisis. Nobody forced them to do it, they decided that themselves.
Oh you didnβt know? You do now.
And rail prices are going up by almost 6% next year as well. Lol.
Support the strikes man. These companies are literally fleecing everyone and having a jolly-up at our expense.
So glad the railways were privatised β for Β£60, Iβm crammed in a vestibule without a seat on a delayed train, safe in the knowledge that billions have been paid out to shareholders rather than being invested to improve the service or pay workers more.
People donβt want to lose pay when they take industrial action but striking is the only democratic right that workers have.
Karen from Derby will ask: βInstead of striking, why donβt you open the barriers and let people ride on trains for free?β
β¦because itβs illegal, Karen.
They (the RDG) also want to implement βmodernisationβ on the train operating companies (TOCs).
The list is actually very long. Have a look at this graphic. The changes are listed below.
These are the areas where the TOCs believe they can make yearly savings of 2 billion pounds.
The facts are that the government has been controlling this dispute right from the outset.
Network Rail negotiators have said that they must always refer back to the government throughout any stage of negotiations.
The TOCs take their mandate from the Secretary of State (in this case, the Transport Secretary) and they - via the government - must sign off any proposed deal.
Itβs also written into law that it is the Transport Secretary that must deal with industrial relations.
After the peak of COVID through 2020 where footfall (and subsequent revenue) on the railway was essentially at zero, the bigwigs came together to create a βframeworkβ to deliver βrailway modernisationβ.
Iβll break down the βmodernisationβ in due course.
The main new addition being they agree to a widespread move to "driver-only operation" across the network - where drivers operate the doors on all train carriages and to remove guards from every single train service.
Happy Fatherβs Day to me!
(Just practising for next year! π)
Soon become Farda Smooth. β³πΌπΎπΌ
Look at her little nose! πβ€οΈ
#FatherToBe
#GirlDad
#Fatherhood
Shaq lipsed every babe in that challenge but he has headloss because Tanya did the same and won the challenge?
Is that not madness?
Shaq. My guy. PATTERN UP KMT
#LoveIsland
The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) - the top execs across the train companies - via the Department for Transport (the Government) started to look for ways to cut βinefficienciesβ in order to make two billion pounds in savings to the yearly budget for the sector.
Secondly.
βΒ£31bn of support has been into the rail industry over the past two years. Thatβs equivalent to over Β£1,000 per household in the country, and over Β£300,000 per rail worker.β
The government LOVE wheeling this one out at every opportunity.
Make arrangements from now to work from home or book some emergency annual leave or something.
TfL are going on strike on Tuesday 21st June.
14 train companies + Network Rail (50000 members) are going on strike on 21st, 23rd & 25th June.
#IndustrialAction
@SouthernRailUK
4.20pm. The rubbish is still there.
@SouthernRailUK
β¦why do you like to lie? Your colleague Scottie^ said that the rubbish had been cleared.
Iβve spoken to the staff there and they said the lift was locked out of use because of βhealth and safetyβ.
ANSWER QUICKLY!
@SouthernRailUK
Scottie, please read back what you have just written.
FEW DAYS?
That rubbish needs to be moved IMMEDIATELY. The station needs to be accessible for ALL people to use.
The rubbish needs to be moved to allow people to use the lift.
Please get that actioned at once. Thank you.
@SouthernRailUK
Thanks for responding.
This needs to be done immediately. If someone is to access the lift from the platform, they wonβt be able to get out because all of the rubbish is blocking the lift.
Keep me informed on what happens please. If itβs not moved, I will escalate this.
The rubbish is still there,
@SouthernRailUK
. This is NOT on.
Locking the lift out of use on grounds of βhealth and safetyβ doesnβt wash either. The lift was working on Friday. Itβs not broken.
Get the rubbish removed asap.
CC:
@networkrail
@yourcroydon
β¦get this sorted NOW.
Marcus Rashford training in Dubai and hanging out with Wiley, a vile antisemite.
Hard to believe those sincere social media posts, full of emotional intelligence, are actually written by him, rather than tightly scripted by his PR agency.
The hypocrisy of still taking the knee.
In all of this, Iβm asking this:
β¦why do grown black men need protecting on Clubhouse? What kind of room title?
LOOOOLβ¦an app that YOU yourself downloaded from the App Storeβ¦an app that YOU yourself can choose which rooms you go in. Lol, what a wow.
#toxic
I honestly canβt put into words the anger I have for this UK Conservative government.
How can you possibly justify cutting vegetables in half and wrapping them in cling film, putting dry pasta in kebab takeaway boxes and giving them to families to cook for their children?
Bruv.
Birthday blessings. ππΎ Happy birthday to me. π₯³ Thanks to everyone whoβs shown me love today, I appreciate you all! β€οΈ
(Oh, donβt be fooled by the tagged locationβ¦Iβm definitely in London, kmt. It was all good just a week ago. π)
As DJs, we see tweets regularly for us to not play the βsame shitβ all the time.
So weβll test the waters and play fresh new tunes that actually slap and receive little/no reaction on the dancefloorβ¦
β¦to then read more tweets that DJs donβt know what theyβre doing loool π
THE RUBBISH HAS FINALLY BEEN CLEARED.
I checked round the side behind the shutters from outside the station and the rubbish there has also been cleared.
@SouthernRailUK
, I asked you to get back to me when it was done but you didnβt. Useless people.
My work here is done. π€πΎ
Thornton Heath station this morning.
You guys need to move that rubbish asap, itβs blocking access to the lift.
How are wheelchair users, parents with pushchairs, visually impaired passengers meant to use the lift?
Answer quickly.
@SouthernRailUK
@SouthernRailUK
Happy to know that the rubbish has been cleared. Thank you.
When I pass through the station later today, I will also be following up myself by asking staff as to how that was allowed to happen in the first place.
It also needs to not happen again.
I was DJing in the uni raves round the times when Funky House was running the raves...
...and I promise you...no-one was trying to hear Kanoβs βPs & Qsβ before tunes like βMigraine Skankβ or βDo You Mindβ.
FUNKY HOUSE RAN THE RAVES. Grime wasnβt as popular.
#3ShotsOfTequila
Furlough extended until MARCH 2021?
Loool, Lockdown 2 is definitely getting extended through Christmas.
Thereβs even still Brexit to come as well. π What a 2020. Crap year.
I want to own a chain of bars/nightclubs in the future.
Iβm giving myself 10 years to execute and for the venues to be self-sustainable within that timeframe.
The time starts now. Letβs work. πͺπΎ
@SouthernRailUK
Thank you for clarifying your earlier words.
Iβll be travelling through the station later this afternoon.
It would be wise for the station management to have ensured that the rubbish has disappeared by then. If itβs not removed, I will escalate this. Thanks.
The railway workers are on strike.
Instead of listening to the media who have a clear agenda, take it from me - someone who actually works in the railway industry.
Enjoy the read. π€πΎ
Let me break down for you the current rail dispute between the
@RMTUnion
and Network Rail and the 14 other train operating companies.
The following tweets will contain information that the media and the politicians are conveniently not telling you.
Have a read. A THREAD! π§΅
Day parties happening on a Sunday will continue to be a thing because venue hire fees for Saturdays cost on average DOUBLE or TREBLE the amount it costs to hire on a Sunday.
I think some people think promoters are putting on events just for vibes π things cost MONEY you know.
Nah. Look at the venue please. π
#INTIMATExBRUNCH
The ladies are gonna LOVE the feature wall especially. IG is due to be flooded! Hella pics for the gram! πΈ
Tickets moving nicely. Get yours now!
Theyβre sold in groups of either 2, 4 or 6.
β> π
I think a lot of DJs are gonna need to incorporate the live streaming element into their sets/shows going forward.
Go live once a week. Maybe stream your club set live to your followers on Mixcloud/Twitch.
Itβs too big to wilfully ignore now.
Donβt be an ostrich.
Why are people making fun of Keeya Keys being happy that heβs sold out his headline show? Man are RTing him saying the capacity of the venue is 200.
And so what?
A man has a solid number of people that have spent money to come and see him perform. It should be applauded.
I've been DJing at my weekly Saturday residency for 3 months now.
In that time, the events manager has told me he's had local DJs hitting him up, saying they can do a better jobβ¦all whilst biting my playing style at their own gigs! π CAN YOU IMAGINE!
Why do some DJs do this?
@_IvyW
To be fair, I used that lift on Friday afternoon and the rubbish wasnβt there. Itβs got to be a fly-tipping job of some sort because how can that amount of rubbish accumulate so quick?
An example.
Hollyoaks literally did a storyline about racial discrimination in the workplace, another one was someone finding out they had cancer, and theyβre currently doing a storyline about someone who has OCD.
Real life issues. Is Hollyoaks weird also?
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Also, Catherine.
You should have got up and walked away AS SOONNNNN as he said he wasn't going to apologise.
You sat there and listened to the rest of all that? I'm annoyed for you.
#LoveIsland
Shaq definitely likes milk.
He stepped forward for Tanya because it's an easy way in to being a couple.
Tanya definitely knows that but she also likes milk too.
It's rough for them still. π
Black love though. π€πΎ LOOL
#LoveIsland
Breakout rooms discussing the
#TalksWithAsh
room on CHβ¦ If youβre doing your job properly, your name wonβt get brought up in these rooms?
Pattern your side! If customers have had bad experiences AFTER PARTING WITH THEIR OWN MONEY, they are entitled to tell their stories.
Itβs interesting seeing the replies and quote tweets to this.
The men are in agreement and the women are saying βyin and yangβ and βopposites attractβ.
Men are talking and the women arenβt listening it seems π€·πΎββοΈπ
You have asked to come out of the car, I stop the car and you exitβ¦are we supposed to stay there and let you back in the car?
SAY WHAT YOU MEAN AND MEAN WHAT YOU SAY INNIT πππ
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@SouthernRailUK
@networkrail
@yourcroydon
THE RUBBISH HAS FINALLY BEEN CLEARED.
I checked round the side behind the shutters from outside the station and the rubbish there has also been cleared.
@SouthernRailUK
, I asked you to get back to me when it was done but you didnβt. Useless people.
My work here is done. π€πΎ
For someone whoβs not black, M Huncho had way too much audacity to be saying the N word calmly in his raps.
I donβt care if heβs since apologised for using it either. I DONβT CARE. That word should have been nowhere near his lips.