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Expert analysis: Will rail strikes lower public confidence in the government?
National World - LocalTV
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19/08/2024
LNER workers will go on strike, its been announced - just days after the government agreed on a pay deal for train drivers, which Transport Secretary Louise Haigh called a "breakthrough".
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we're into a sort of state where, of course, as I said, there's a lot of issues to be sort of
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resolved. And quite clearly, this is unhelpful for the Labour government, because of course,
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having sort of come to a sort of an agreement, and then to find that there's something else,
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it reminds me of the sort of the Oliver Twist character, who goes up and asks for more.
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So this will not play well with the sort of the public and quite clearly, the sort of the
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Conservatives will undoubtedly use this to their advantage, which, of course, is the sort of the
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nature of politics. But I do sort of come back to sort of what's at the heart of these issues,
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long standing sort of grievances, which I think could be resolved by better industrial relations
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between the sort of the unions quite clearly, and the workers, which obviously is represented
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largely by the sort of the unions, and indeed sort of management. But dare I say that railways
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are a sort of pretty sort of poor example of how not to sort of to run your systems.
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As someone who sort of travels reasonably regularly, I'm subject to sort of to the delays
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and the sort of the irritations. But of course, in my case, they're pretty minor.
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The Conservatives have again raised a concern that was being voiced even before this new Labour
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government came to power, that they're too heavily influenced by union demands.
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How valid do you think these criticisms are? And what political implications could they have?
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Well, I mean, there's always politics at play, you know, that that's the sort of the nature we're
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in. And the Conservative Party are sort of still licking their wounds and sort of the
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the recent election loss. There's a whole sort of set of sort of
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structured issues with railways in particular, that are really, really problematic, you know,
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that lots of money has been thrown at them. And undoubtedly, there's been a lot of modernisation.
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The sort of the politics aside, it's obviously not good for the sort of the government. But
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you know, there will be sort of bigger challenges ahead. And dare I say, it's probably sort of good
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from sort of the Labour's point of view of getting these, these issues sorted out at this stage,
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rather than sort of with sort of a year to go to the next election,
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when of course, they'll hope that sort of people's memories will have faded.
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