TFL Tube Strikes

[kiethton]

james_tigerwoods said:

I think you'll find that Bob's fine thankyouverymuch...

I'm on a train from Doncaster heading to Vauxhall. I may have to get a bus from Victoria... It's not a prospect I relish - A bus? Pah!

A PH'er on a looser cruiser!

I pity the thought....

In other news Crow's a !

[james_tigerwoods]

kiethton said:

james_tigerwoods said:

I think you'll find that Bob's fine thankyouverymuch...

I'm on a train from Doncaster heading to Vauxhall. I may have to get a bus from Victoria... It's not a prospect I relish - A bus? Pah!

A PH'er on a looser cruiser!

I pity the thought....

In other news Crow's a !

I know! Any PHer willing to provide door to door executive service from Kings Cross?

[ReallyReallyGood]

It does seem a bit crazy how only 30% of the union actually voted for this action and is allowed to go ahead. (10% voted against, 60% didn't vote: source - http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/sebastian-payne/2014/... )

A minimum mandate of 50% of the membership seems sensible, shirley.

[ewenm]

james_tigerwoods said:

I think you'll find that Bob's fine thankyouverymuch...

I'm on a train from Doncaster heading to Vauxhall. I may have to get a bus from Victoria... It's not a prospect I relish - A bus? Pah!

Overground rail from Victoria to Vauxhall surely! No need for a bus (although if it wasn't crappy weather a walk might be ok too).

[McWigglebum4th]

Some of us don't live in London

[ewenm]

McWigglebum4th said:

Some of us don't live in London

I don't miss the chaos of tube-strike days, but then I was never that reliant on the tube, preferring to walk/run/cycle.

[Zod]

McWigglebum4th said:

Some of us don't live in London

But you have time to read and post in the thread.

[gjf764]

The bellend was just on radio 5, silly man

[Du1point8]

The reason they are striking is due to the 950 job cuts of the ticket office workers...

They work them so hard

[madbadger]

35 minutes to drive 30 miles.

Pretty much normal.

[Impasse]

Oakey said:

What they complaining about this time? Not enough gold flakes in the canteen sugar?

Redundancies. A number of ticket offices and other staffed services will be closing resulting in approximately 950 redundancies - all with golden goodbyes. Over 1000 employees have applied for voluntary redundancy, so this strike seems a little out of touch with what its union members want, which is probably why the turnout for the vote was so low.

[Smiler.]

Could be a fake, looks a bit iffy to me:

[essayer]

ReallyReallyGood said:

It does seem a bit crazy how only 30% of the union actually voted for this action and is allowed to go ahead. (10% voted against, 60% didn't vote: source - http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/sebastian-payne/2014/... )

A minimum mandate of 50% of the membership seems sensible, shirley.

At the risk of sounding like a Grauniad reader.. in 2012 only 16.7% of Londoners voted for BJ to be mayor

(15% Ken, 6% others, 62% didn't vote)

[McWigglebum4th]

Zod said:

McWigglebum4th said:

Some of us don't live in London

But you have time to read and post in the thread.

That is because I don't have to pay a million pounds to live in a broom cupboard

[iphonedyou]

Du1point8 said:

The reason they are striking is due to the 950 job cuts of the ticket office workers...

They work them so hard

That's the best bit, though. It's not job cuts - no compulsory redundancies, they can be redeployed if they wish.

I have the unabridged letter sent to Bob when RMT popped their heads around the door at the meeting, declared a dispute and walked out without so much as a goodbye. It would be hilarious were it not actually happening. Crow is a buffoon, and must know that he is categorically wrong on a number of levels so high I'm not sure I can count far enough. The letter, as it happens, was wonderfully written - a point by point destruction of Crow (and TSSA's) position.

[Digga]

McWigglebum4th said:

Zod said:

McWigglebum4th said:

Some of us don't live in London

But you have time to read and post in the thread.

That is because I don't have to pay a million pounds to live in a broom cupboard

Or have to drink recycled pisswater out of the taps and spend your evenings picking big, black rook-like bogeys out of your nostrils.

[Sonic]

Surely this is just another push to make the entire network automated with minimal levels of staff, therefore making the system less reliant on the human element and subsequent strikes... seems like a massive own-goal to me.

[petrolsniffer]

Sonic said:

Surely this is just another push to make the entire network automated with minimal levels of staff, therefore making the system less reliant on the human element and subsequent strikes... seems like a massive own-goal to me.

Was just about to say this bet boris is already planning/budgeting for it.

[fido]

Sonic said:

Surely this is just another push to make the entire network automated with minimal levels of staff, therefore making the system less reliant on the human element and subsequent strikes... seems like a massive own-goal to me.

They don't learn do they. Meanwhile Bob Crow will do nicely out of it whilst getting kudos from his supporters and other lefties for 'sticking it to the man'!

[FairfieldSteve]

Sonic said:

Surely this is just another push to make the entire network automated with minimal levels of staff, therefore making the system less reliant on the human element and subsequent strikes... seems like a massive own-goal to me.

Exactly!