On 5 Sep, 12:59, "Paul Scott" wrote:
"We are still prepared to meet any reasonable requests and remain ready to
meet with the unions throughout today.

"It is clearly unreasonable to proceed with a strike when all of the
trades
unions' concerns have been met, and without the RMT informing us what they
seek to achieve.

From the BBC:

"RMT general secretary Bob Crow said they now had the assurances, they had
been seeking, in writing from the employer.
He said the full pension scheme rescue was expected to be in place by
Thursday.

"This means that our members will now actually have their pensions restored
to them, which is rather different than promises from a man in an expensive
suit," he said.

Perhaps Metronet's negotiators should have worn cheap suits then Bob Crow
would have been happy to believe him...

;-)

Mild plug: I've written an article about the strike shenanigans:
http://www.thesharpener.net/2007/09/...his-strike-now

As it concludes - if I were a Metronet worker, I'd want to be in a
union that sought to *protect* my job, rather than one led by someone
who thinks Arthur Scargill was right to destroy his members' jobs in
the wider interests of sticking one to the government...


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