AIBU?
Why, when MN appears so 'London-centric', there appear to be no threads relating to the tube strike - either for or against?
MoonlightS0nata · 06/08/2015 07:28
Surely a lot of people on MN have been affected. Or are they too busy trying to get to work to post anything?
Enjoyingthepeace · 06/08/2015 07:36
Good question.
As an ex Londoner, my view is that we generally take stuff like this on the chin. It's a pain the in the arse, but so many love their city that we just put up with it.
Plus, it's summertime. So walking to your overground station or home, is not so unpleasant as if peeing it down with rain.
EdithWeston · 06/08/2015 07:39
I've seen one this morning (asking why they're striking) and a few about expected traffic and alternative routes.
Although I can see why threads asking for specific advice are short and to the point, I've no idea why more general ones sometimes 'trend' [vom] or turn into tumbleweed.
LaurieFairyCake · 06/08/2015 07:40
//www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-tube-strike-tfl-workers-6030699
It took me a while to find a detailed list of reasons as the unions haven't put it on their main websites.
It's ridiculous they don't make the reasons accessible enough so the public have a chance to decide and support them,
Totality22 · 06/08/2015 07:46
I'm on ML. Although when at I walk anyway (20 mins) and I was about a half an hour away from my old office - again I used to walk everyday. I've not personally been affected by a strike in many years!!! Although being one of the very few people who make it in on strike day is a pain, everyone else works from home in their pj's
Self employed OH has lost 2 days money with the recent strikes though as he is relying on 3 tube lines to get to work (getting busses on strike day is just horrific)
BIL is a tube driver so I see both sides.
NewFlipFlops · 06/08/2015 07:51
We're just used to stuff. People are always inconveniencing us.
I'm against striking but have a lot of sympathy for the workers having their T&Cs changed radically. Actually am against the night tube as London is noisy and tacky enough without constantly enabling 'revellers' and arseholes generally but that's another subject.
LindyHemming · 06/08/2015 08:10
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Babayaggatheboneylegged · 06/08/2015 08:12
It's a faff and a half getting to and from work but I totally understand and support the reasons for the strike. I wish I worked in an industry where industrial action was still possible!
And then tomorrow everything will go back to normal and no one will have died.
EmpressKnowsWhereHerTowelIs · 06/08/2015 08:18
I'm coming in from Zone 2 as well, caught the bus very early, nice breakfast on the South Bank and leaving early to beat the rush (hopefully).
I've seen the Metro headlines about the tube staff getting 52 days holiday and earning twice what I do, but I haven't read their side of it yet... And the Metro stuff was so outrageous that there must be more to it, surely.
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