April 19th 14, 08:32 PM
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All Out - RMT plans five days of Tube strikes
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On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:05:42 +0100
Recliner wrote:
On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 11:09:49 GMT, d wrote:
Sadly, just like their equally bolshi and half witted brethren in British
Leyland in the 1970s, they're too stupid to realise that their constant
strikes are going to result in their jobs ceasing to exist. TfL are
ditching ticket offices - in reality the people in them - and want to bring
in driverless trains. I wonder if the idiots waving their placards in a
couple of weeks will be able to spot the connection.
Sadly, it's not so easy to replace train operators, so even if future
Tube trains are fully automatic, they'll still have an operator on
board, who'll probably be an RMT member.
Unlikely. Sure , at first it'll just be ex-drivers but the job spec will
be different to driving so you'll get a different type of person applying
for it, and these people probably won't be RMT -or perhaps any union - members.
Eventually the RMT dinosaurs will be replaced in perhaps a decade or 2 and
that'll be it. Another blue collar trade hoisted by its own greedy petard.
Still, you can't educate pork.
We can but hope. In the mean time, the RMT regularly calls DLR strikes:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25839112
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/0...70B32820110112
http://www.cityam.com/article/dlr-strike-dates-decided
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/dlr-workers...over-pay-35762
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