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David Cantrell · January 25th 17, 10:12 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 06:34:00PM -0600, wrote:

Are Cash & Co trying to drive their members out of work by gaining such a
reputation for bloody-mindedness?

That's what it looks like, but I don't think it's actually the case.
They know full well that their industry is changing and that staffing
requirements aren't as high as they were in the Good Old Days. They're
just doing everything they can to delay it as much as possible.

See also the situation back during and after the switchover from steam
to diesel on BR that locomotives had a fireman - sorry, I mean a
"driver's assistant" - on board. The unions managed to keep that wheeze
going until the early 80s IIRC on the grounds that it was training for
future drivers.

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