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Its that time of year again
On 5 Feb, 10:09, chunky munky wrote:
Theres seems to be a threat of another tube strike in the air according to the radio. Anyone know what its about this time or is it just the usual tub thumping over some non existent issue to squeeze another pay rise / shorter working hours out of TfL? It is over reducing LU Staff responsibilty and contracting out some station work to agency staff and security firms. This will further fragment the railway and remove operational responsibilty that there currently is from being all in the same company. I know you have complained about Arnos Grove before Boltar, if LU's plan went through then things would be much worse. The vast majority of LU staff do take pride in their work - just look at stations like Northwood or Southfields and compare them to similar National Rail ones! LU are trying to remove this. Hmm. The only contracting of station staff that's been proposed is at Heathrow Terminal 5, and that's because it'll be managed by BAA and not LU. The rest appears to be scaremongering nonsense from the unions, who're spooked that the London Overground model might actually work just as well as LU at keeping stations safe and clean despite being contracted and lower-paying. If there's an official statement from LU that they're planning to replace employed staff in LU stations with contract staff[*], then I'll retract the above... [*] yes, OK, ELLx, whatever. -- John Band john at johnband dot org www.johnband.org |
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