Tunnelrat wrote:
If being a Train Operator is the cushy number you seem to think it is then
why aren't You training to join us ?
Tunnelrat
"Kevin" wrote in message
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I see that those nice underpaid and overworked undreground drivers have
voted for a strike on the basis that industrial relations have
completely broken down. Could the passengers now also call for a strike
on the basis that tube travel on London is now a complete f**k-up.
You would think for the fares that we now pay it wouldn't be too much
to ask that a driver could put off his squash games, manage to stay
awake long enough to actually drive the bloody tube train. They are
paid well enough after all.
Now I will have another bloody row with Silverlink because as they say
it is nothing to do with them that my Watford to all zones travel card
can't be used in zone 1. Anybody would think that when I pay for a
ticket it is on the basis that I actually expect trains to run.

Kevin




Sorry Tunnelrat, but there are plenty of people who would love to do our
job, think that we are overpaid (not by industry standards anymore),
underworked, and actually like going out on strike, the current dispute
is over the imposition of new policies covering sickness, spads etc,
they basically give managers the right to be judge, jury and executioner
you could be sacked just on a mangers suspicion, if these were
consultative documents why were they released on the company intranet,
why did they have implementation dates, the company have said that they
want to bring these policies in to get rid of the ****takers, they
already have the rules to do this but seem to choose not to use them,
myself and many of my colleagues would love to see the ****takers hit
hard, it never happens, WHY?

Personally I voted for strike action, because these policies are
draconian in the extreme, it takes something to get me to vote for a
strike, I don't think it will actually come to ASLEF going out on
strike, but the RMT are a different kettle of fish and like wasting
their members money.

Oh and if we really liked going out on strike, we'd wait for the summer,
and the world cup, game of golf in the morning then a match in the pub
in the afternoon