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Old January 9th 06, 05:34 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Laurence Payne Laurence Payne is offline
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Default Question about tube strikes

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:17:44 +0000 (UTC), "Paul Scott"
wrote:

If striking staff somewhere let you in without a ticket, presumably the non
striking staff (the majority in this case?)elsewhere would feel obliged to
give you a penalty fare!


No, this is the new post-Thatcher unionism. Grab what you can, every
man for himself. The upside (for us) is that almost no-one takes any
notice of the strike call :-)