On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 04:09:19PM -0000, Recliner wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
The RMT and ASLEF are almost always unreasonable, but it seems that in
this case they might have a point. It depends, I suppose, on how LU are
treating the drivers who are being asked to move.
If your employer asks you to move more than certain distance, don't you
have the automatic right to treat it as redundancy?

Even if you do, what counts as a reasonable distance in one place might
not be reasonable in another. Whether the staff affected think it's
reasonable will depend on travel time (and cost), whether public
transport is available at the necessary times, and so on.

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In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 04:09:19PM -0000, Recliner wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
The RMT and ASLEF are almost always unreasonable, but it seems that in
this case they might have a point. It depends, I suppose, on how LU
are treating the drivers who are being asked to move.
If your employer asks you to move more than certain distance, don't you
have the automatic right to treat it as redundancy?

Even if you do, what counts as a reasonable distance in one place might
not be reasonable in another. Whether the staff affected think it's
reasonable will depend on travel time (and cost), whether public
transport is available at the necessary times, and so on.

Is this week's strike, which is predicted to be much more disruptive, about
the same issue?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

wrote:
In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 04:09:19PM -0000, Recliner wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
The RMT and ASLEF are almost always unreasonable, but it seems that in
this case they might have a point. It depends, I suppose, on how LU
are treating the drivers who are being asked to move.
If your employer asks you to move more than certain distance, don't you
have the automatic right to treat it as redundancy?

Even if you do, what counts as a reasonable distance in one place might
not be reasonable in another. Whether the staff affected think it's
reasonable will depend on travel time (and cost), whether public
transport is available at the necessary times, and so on.

Is this week's strike, which is predicted to be much more disruptive, about
the same issue?

Actually, next week's strike. No, this is another one about the closed
ticket offices, which aren't going to reopen. If it's like the last of its
type, most lines will have a service, but few zone 1 stations will be open.
Trains will run non-stop through them at low speed.