"tim....." wrote:
"David Walters" wrote in message
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On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:35:20 +0000 (UTC), y wrote:
So the overpaid button pushers will be out again on the 8th of July.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-33180965

"Aslef, which represents around 70% of drivers, said LU was trying to force
through new rosters which would mean drivers worked unlimited hours "

Really? Thats unlikely because it would be illegal. FUD from a union, who'd
have thought it.

The ASLEF press release at
http://www.aslef.org.uk/information/...ction_on_tube/
reads slightly differently:

"ASLEF members on London Underground have voted overwhelmingly for strike
action in a dispute over the company’s decision to try to force through,
without negotiation, new rosters which would mean Tube drivers will have
to work an unlimited number of weekend and night shifts for no extra
pay."

presumably that worded to mean:

work an unlimited number of weekend/night shifts without being paid for them.

when the realty is:

work an unlimited number of weekend/nights instead of the same number of weekday shifts

what's the problem here. There isn't an unlimited number of weekend
days in a year and if you don't share them out "fairly" there will be
no-one working the weekday shifts

I wonder, do they get paid more for "unsocial hours" shifts, or are they on
fixed salaries for fixed hours, which can include a proportion of shifts at
any time?