Miserable tube drivers for Olympics

[GarryA]

Flexibility will be - can you come in tuesday not wednesday or you will be working your rest day on friday, perhaps declining annual leave etc.

Unions will make it out to be forcing the drivers to work for free 24/7 whilst their families are pushed on to the tracks in front of them.

There are strict rules on drivers hours etc so I doubt they will be killing themselves.

[Laurel Green]

tank slapper said:

Why on earth do they entertain this nonsense? The offer should be - come to work and do your job, and you get to keep it.

Absolutely! The bonus being, will be school holidays so, will be plenty of takers for temporary drivers whilst holiday continues.

[egor110]

tank slapper said:

Why on earth do they entertain this nonsense? The offer should be - come to work and do your job, and you get to keep it.

But if their job contract is to do say a 8 hour shift 5 days a week and now tfl are asking them to do 7 days a week, if they turned around and said no thanks we'll come to work and do the job as on our contract of employment then how do you propose moving the olympics visitor's around?

[valiant]

GarryA said:

Flexibility will be - can you come in tuesday not wednesday or you will be working your rest day on friday, perhaps declining annual leave etc.

Unions will make it out to be forcing the drivers to work for free 24/7 whilst their families are pushed on to the tracks in front of them.

There are strict rules on drivers hours etc so I doubt they will be killing themselves.

I think you'll find that it's Unite that have rejected the deal and are threatening to strike. Unite mainly represent the engineering side not the operational side (drivers, station side, etc) so you can't blame the drivers for this latest one!

[Trommel]

egor110 said:

how do you propose moving the olympics visitor's around?

By going on strike, Comrade.

[egor110]

Trommel said:

By going on strike, Comrade.

Ok so how's going on strike going to move them?

[tank slapper]

egor110 said:

But if their job contract is to do say a 8 hour shift 5 days a week and now tfl are asking them to do 7 days a week, if they turned around and said no thanks we'll come to work and do the job as on our contract of employment then how do you propose moving the olympics visitor's around?

Voluntary overtime is not a new concept is it really. This is purely about greed, and nothing to do with working conditions or safety or any of the excuses the unions like to trot out. They want more cash, and have spotted this as an opportunity to extort it.

[RichB]

tank slapper said:

Voluntary overtime is not a new concept is it really. This is purely about greed, and nothing to do with working conditions or safety or any of the excuses the unions like to trot out. They want more cash, and have spotted this as an opportunity to extort it.

abso-bleeding-lutely !

[eldar]

tank slapper said:

They want more cash, and have spotted this as an opportunity to extort it.

You mean they've become capitalists. PH should love them

[tank slapper]

They haven't become capitalists. If TFL were to suddenly announce that they were fed up of paying through the nose for someone to sit in a train cab, and they were therefore making the entire system automatic the unions would be in uproar.