Robin Mayes wrote:
"elyob" wrote in message
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Do they really believe that striking 31st December is going to get
the respect of the general public?

Certainly make the current dispute high profile!

Perhaps you can explain what this current dispute is all about, as the
LU and RMT statements taken together don't add up. The RMT talks about
hundreds of "displacement notices", which I assume are notices telling
staff that they are being moved to different jobs. I can understand the
union being annoyed (but not to the extent of calling a strike on New
Year's Eve) if this has been done without full consultation, but the
primary reason for the strike is allegedly because the staff movements
constitute "a massive cull of safety-critical front-line staff".

But LU say that there will be no overall cut in staff numbers, and that
some staff are "being redeployed from ticket offices to station
platforms and ticket halls, which can also boost reassurance for our
passengers and security". So what are these safety-critical front-line
jobs that the RMT says are being withdrawn?

http://www.rmt.org.uk/C2B/PressOffic...ID=1807&Type=2
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/press-cent...t.asp?prID=633

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