A drunk passenger attacked a member of staff, Jerome Bowes, on New Year's Eve and this led to his sacking. A 24 hour strike was called by RMT members working on the Charing Cross Group. Any right thinking person should abhor both the behaviour of the passenger and the action of the London Underground bosses. Please protest on behalf of Jerome to the Boris Johnson The Mayor and Tim O'Toole managing director of LUL. For more details of the case go my Blog TheDuckShoot.com

DaveKnight gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying:

A drunk passenger attacked a member of staff, Jerome Bowes, on New
Year's Eve and this led to his sacking.

Why do I get the feeling this isn't quite the _whole_ story...?

On 30 Jul, 07:13, Adrian wrote:
DaveKnight gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying:

A drunk passenger attacked a member of staff, Jerome Bowes, on New
Year's Eve and this led to *his sacking.

Why do I get the feeling this isn't quite the _whole_ story...?

Reads to me that the drunk passenger was the one who was sacked, which
knowing the RMT has every chance of being right.

Paul Weaver gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

A drunk passenger attacked a member of staff, Jerome Bowes, on New
Year's Eve and this led to Â*his sacking.

Why do I get the feeling this isn't quite the _whole_ story...?

Reads to me that the drunk passenger was the one who was sacked, which
knowing the RMT has every chance of being right.

Heh.

A quick google suggests Bowes "defended himself" in such a robust manner
as to break his wrist...

On Jul 30, 9:32 am, Adrian wrote:
A drunk passenger attacked a member of staff, Jerome Bowes, on New
Year's Eve and this led to his sacking.
Why do I get the feeling this isn't quite the _whole_ story...?
Reads to me that the drunk passenger was the one who was sacked, which
knowing the RMT has every chance of being right.

Heh.

A quick google suggests Bowes "defended himself" in such a robust manner
as to break his wrist...

(that's Bowes's own wrist, ambiguity fans)

I like this from the RMT's PR: "Jerome has now been sacked by Tube
bosses. This despite the fact that the witness statements from other
staff all back Jerome"

In other news, the witness statements from other policemen in police
brutality cases always say that the suspect fell down the stairs...

Seriously - anyone who uses violence against customers, no matter how
much the customer is a ******, has no place in a customer service job;
and anyone who can't see that has no place in a customer service job
either. Well done LUL; I hope you stand up to the RMT ******* here...

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

John B wrote:


In other news, the witness statements from other policemen in police
brutality cases always say that the suspect fell down the stairs...

Seriously - anyone who uses violence against customers, no matter how
much the customer is a ******, has no place in a customer service job;
and anyone who can't see that has no place in a customer service job
either. Well done LUL; I hope you stand up to the RMT ******* here...

While that may be technically true, to what extent should an employment
contract override your basic legal right to defend yourself using a
level of force that seems reasonable to you in the light of a perceived
threat? It would be rather harsh to have to choose between your job and
not getting punched/stabbed/shot, after all. This is LUL, not the SAS.

Personally, if the police and CPS don't prosecute him, they presumably
think his actions were reasonable, so why don't LUL?

Tom