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Old February 20th 09, 01:12 PM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
Mark Goodge Mark Goodge is offline
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Default Rail workers in strike threat

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:20:57 -0800 (PST), put finger
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On Feb 20, 9:32*am, "Lüko Willms" wrote:

* "All the new staff" -- former guards can be used here, isn't it? If
they are not retrained to become drivers. *


That's the sort of thing which would have Bob Crow spitting fire - you
can't expect someone who currently sits at the back of a train pushing
buttons to actually have to go out and talk to passengers and
generally do things that are useful...


To be fair, I'm not sure that many passengers would want to be talked
to by someone who's primary skills consist of sitting at the back of a
train pushing buttons :-)

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