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Boxing Day Tube Strike - What A Surprise
On Dec 14, 5:23*pm, Robin9 wrote:
Paul;125188 Wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16174789 The company is currently offering no additional payments for working on Boxing Day. The union says its members may need ‘substantial incentives’ to volunteer. I've just heard someone from London Underground management counter this assertion with the following: the terms of employment and payment were substantially renegotiated a few years ago to incorporate all the bonuses, overtime payments etc. into a hugely increased basic salary. That is why tube drivers now earn so much. -- Robin9 Tube drivers get roughly the same as other main line train drivers (in London) who incidentally don't have to work boxing day. They were also told that only a skeleton service crewed by volunteers would run in boxing day. Now LUL wants a full Saturday service. As for training up volunteers : do you mean actually putting them through the whole drivers selection and procedure (which 90% fail) and a full drivers course complete with exams on everything to do with the railway including how to fix broken down trains, what to do in degraded situations, how the signalling and power supply works etc etc or (training a driver costs around 100k) or... Shall we just bung a few volunteers with a tube driver and let em take the controls after a few stations? |
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