Current strike (8/9) - experiences
 

Has anyone had any problems since the current strike started?

At 8pm in South Kensington there seemed to be more staff than usual.
Five or so very friendly staff members were at the entrance to the
ticket barriers next to a sign saying the station will stay open as
usual until 0015. And the District line was running fine.

Current strike (8/9) - experiences
 

"Chris!" wrote in message
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Has anyone had any problems since the current strike started?


Northern line northbound was stupidly crowded early this morning, and the
train non-stopped the three Claphams, except that the doors did actually
open at Common for some reason. Also no Charing X service from Morden.

Central line in central London at about 07:45 seemed less busy than usual.

BTN

Current strike (8/9) - experiences
 

Chris! wrote:
Has anyone had any problems since the current strike started?

At 8pm in South Kensington there seemed to be more staff than usual.
Five or so very friendly staff members were at the entrance to the
ticket barriers next to a sign saying the station will stay open as
usual until 0015. And the District line was running fine.


Usual station was closed this morning so went to another one and got
into work quicker because several stations were closed.

Got back home even quicker because even more stations were closed.

Great!

Current strike (8/9) - experiences
 

Chris! wrote:
Has anyone had any problems since the current strike started?

At 8pm in South Kensington there seemed to be more staff than usual.
Five or so very friendly staff members were at the entrance to the
ticket barriers next to a sign saying the station will stay open as
usual until 0015. And the District line was running fine.

As far as the RMT strike goes, my day's tube travelling has been
marginally better than usual, if anything.

Northern Line was a bit crap this morning, but that's due to unrelated
"unofficial action" by their drivers. (Ironically, whilst the RMT
leadership fails once more to organise a successful strike over
spurious "safety concerns", Northern Line drivers walk out in defense
of a driver who fell asleep and drove a train at 29mph through a 5mph
speed limit.)

Travel on other lines (Jubilee, Victoria) went very smoothly. So, in
summary, I would say that the RMT strike has had no negative effect
whatsoever on my experience of the tube today. In fact, a couple of
station closures sped up my journey a bit.

Once again it is abundantly clear that the vast majority of the RMT
membership is not interested in supporting these latest pointless
strikes. Good on them.

Current strike (8/9) - experiences
 

"DaveyWavey" wrote in message
oups.com...

Chris! wrote:
Has anyone had any problems since the current strike started?

At 8pm in South Kensington there seemed to be more staff than usual.
Five or so very friendly staff members were at the entrance to the
ticket barriers next to a sign saying the station will stay open as
usual until 0015. And the District line was running fine.

As far as the RMT strike goes, my day's tube travelling has been
marginally better than usual, if anything.

Northern Line was a bit crap this morning, but that's due to unrelated
"unofficial action" by their drivers. (Ironically, whilst the RMT
leadership fails once more to organise a successful strike over
spurious "safety concerns", Northern Line drivers walk out in defense
of a driver who fell asleep and drove a train at 29mph through a 5mph
speed limit.)

I'm surprised they are not blaming PPP. Surely something should be fitted to
the cab to keep drivers awake?

Did they ever find out what was really wrong the trainstops that weren't
working properly? Funny how that all went pretty quiet.

Paul

Current strike (8/9) - experiences
 

Chris! wrote:
Has anyone had any problems since the current strike started?

Started at 11 tonight so avoided the brunt of it (unlike new years day
when practically every station aside from my start, end and interchange
were closed - wonderful!)

Picc Circus was closed, upsetting one tourist who wanted to go there. He
got off at Oxford Circus, aside from that no issues for me :)

Current strike (8/9) - experiences
 

In article .com,
DaveyWavey writes
Northern Line drivers walk out in defense
of a driver who fell asleep and drove a train at 29mph through a 5mph
speed limit.)

All of the drivers I know are pretty sensible people, and I strongly
doubt that they would support someone who was negligent in their job. So
does anyone have the full, detailed, story of this issue?

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Current strike (8/9) - experiences
 

"Chris!" wrote in message
oups.com...
Has anyone had any problems since the current strike started?

At 8pm in South Kensington there seemed to be more staff than usual.
Five or so very friendly staff members were at the entrance to the
ticket barriers next to a sign saying the station will stay open as
usual until 0015. And the District line was running fine.


But what about the safety, dammit!!! :-P

j/k

Current strike (8/9) - experiences
 

I wrote:
Northern Line drivers walk out in defense
of a driver who fell asleep and drove a train at 29mph through a 5mph
speed limit.)

All of the drivers I know are pretty sensible people, and I strongly
doubt that they would support someone who was negligent in their job.
So does anyone have the full, detailed, story of this issue?

I was contacted by somebody who does.

The driver SPADed (though didn't fall asleep, and I don't have a speed
quoted) and was hauled up in front of a disciplinary board. The board
recommended a punishment but a senior person unilaterally overrode this
and decided to sack the person.

So the walk out is not because he was punished for his actions, but
because the proper disciplinary process was not followed. And I can see
why - those processes are what protect all of them (and all of us who
are employed by large companies).

--
Clive D.W. Feather | Home:
Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 (work) | Web: http://www.davros.org
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Current strike (8/9) - experiences
 

Clive D. W. Feather wrote:
I wrote:
Northern Line drivers walk out in defense
of a driver who fell asleep and drove a train at 29mph through a
5mph speed limit.)

All of the drivers I know are pretty sensible people, and I
strongly doubt that they would support someone who was negligent
in their job. So does anyone have the full, detailed, story of
this issue?

I was contacted by somebody who does.

The driver SPADed (though didn't fall asleep, and I don't have a
speed quoted) and was hauled up in front of a disciplinary board.
The board recommended a punishment but a senior person unilaterally
overrode this and decided to sack the person.

So the walk out is not because he was punished for his actions, but
because the proper disciplinary process was not followed.

You say that the board *recommended* punishment. The implication is
that this was a recommendation to a senior person, who had the power to
accept it or take another course of action. In what way was the process
not followed?
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Richard J.
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