Railway strike: Day 2

Today I ended up in a nice and thick traffic jam to drop off a friend of mine at work which is nearby where I am staying, since there are very few trains running due to the strike, and no buses that actually start early enough.

Tomorrow the strike is supposed to be at full swing, after that everything is supposed to be back to normal.

The strike is not about petty things like salaries, but about important things like commuter safety, as well as commuter requirements versus management that doesn't want to cater for the requirements but just want to milk the commuters for money. Train drivers are fed up with orders to drive while doors are open, then somebody gets injured as a result and they get blamed. Management doesn't want to do much about the matter, except the usual witch hunt and blame the driver (who followed their orders or face the consequences).

It is about time that people in various companies in the management positions start thinking things through to make more things practical, and actually start being responsible for their decisions, instead of always blaming the person that was forced to implement their bad ideas.

IOL News article from yesterday:
Transnet strike to cripple Cape rail service