London Banter - London Underground Flash Movie (**WARNING**)

Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
In article .com,
Boltar writes
There almost was an Aslef strike at the beginning of the year when
LU
management had the temerity to demote some driver who'd past 4 red
signals. Of course as we know drivers can do no wrong so LU had to
back
down and he's now being retrained.

You're going to continue to repeat this rant, aren't you?

Until I see I'm getting value for the large sum of money I spend on my
travelcard every month and don't see it just going into the back
pockets
of a bunch of lazy militant layabouts, yes.

The issue was that he was not disciplined *according to the agreed
process*.

Yeah , theres always some whining along those lines. If that was the
case why didn't they simply take LU to court and sort it out there?
Thats
what breach of contract allows. Unless of course that "agreed process"
was
a one sided verbal agreement by the unions that never actually made it
near a written job contract, with the threat that if LU didn't play
ball there'd be trouble.

Oh and don't forget the new years eve strike that was only averted
when
LU coughed up yet more money for the trained chimps that run the
signals.

Do you think you can do better? Let's see you try.

A brother of a friend works as an air traffic controller. He earns
little
more than the LU signallers , probably has 10x the stress and if makes
a *single* f*ck up then not only could hundreds of people die but he
could well end up in prison. I'm trying to remember the last time him
and
his colleagues went out on strike.... nope , can't. Oh , but then he's
a professional and people who are grown up enough to act like
professionals
and realise the responsibilities of their jobs before they take them on
tend not to whinge and bleet every 5 minutes about the conditions and
pay that they were fully well aware of before they started.

Like I've said before , if LU staff don't like their jobs why don't
they
eff off and go do something else instead of pretending that they have
some sort of guaranteed fantasy land job for life with everything made
perfect for them.

B2003