Fecking tube strike!

[Strix]

I believe transportation across the city is a vital service to the everyday life of the public and should therefore not be permitted to virtually shut down.

I need to go to an antenatal appt. today. I will have to pay for a £££ taxi... if I can even get one.

Selfish gits.

I realise this thread will not change today or any future strike, but I feel slightly better for having posted what I think of them on the glorious world wide web.

I saw someone recently praising the situation at some outlying station, where the sole member of staff sold tickets, closed up the ticket office to stand on the platform for boarding, cleaned toilets and locked up at night. I truly thought the letter was going to say how outrageous, insecure and nonsensical this was - but for some reason the silly woman thought this was the way forward. Utterly beyond me how people can think staff cuts are a good thing for any of us, workers and passengers.

"Utterly beyond me how people can think staff cuts are a good thing for any of us, workers and passengers."

Utterly beyond me how people can think that keeping staff employed in no longer required jobs is a good thing for any of us. Well a good thing for any of us other than Bob Crow and his rapidly growing pension fund.

"Utterly beyond me how people can think that keeping staff employed in no longer required jobs is a good thing for any of us."

Thinking some more...

If Bob Crow actually came out and said that London Underground should be run as some kind of job creation scheme that just employs people regardless as to whether or not those jobs are actually needed and regardless of the expense then they might be some socialist logic behind his position.

But he's not doing that.

Because he knows that tax payers and ticket buyers won't support that kind of thing, especially when one of the biggest beneficiaries will be Bob Crow and his generous salary package.

So this is being painted as a dispute about safety. And the Union's are having to flat out lie about stations going unmanned to try and make that one float.

And then throw into the mix that this oh-so-very safety conscious will push for the reinstatement of it's members who actively damage the safety procedures that are there in place to protect the public.

So it's not about safety.

It's not about unmanned stations.

It is about keeping people employed when they don't need to be.

It is about keeping people employed who pay Bob Crows salary.

Did you not read my post? - I am precisely talking about a whole number of jobs that need doing - even if you neo-libs think we can run everything into the ground, cos those who matter don't even use the sodding tube. Jeez.

I use the sodding tube. I want value for my expensive tickets. And I would appreciate any efforts to keep the price down and the value up. Jobs that can be performed by machines at lower cost that a staff member should be. Quite happy to press buttons for tickets.

Small stations don't need to be manned... lighted perhaps with security cameras, but possibly not manned. Some stations of course need to be manned, but not all of them.

And who are you calling a neo-lib??

And as for the three year old, who is the fuckwit who left a three year old on a platform? My 5 and 7 year old are required to get on/off the train/bus BEFORE me so that this never happens.

"I am precisely talking about a whole number of jobs that need doing"

But the point is that the jobs that LU are trying to get rid of aren't needed.

And the Unions seem to have actually accepted that as their main objections are about safety rather than needed jobs going unfilled.

"even if you neo-libs think we can run everything into the ground"

And we've seen the Unions lie about the manning of stations to defend this strike and now you're having to tell a lie, albeit probably not deliberately, by calling be a "neo-lib" who wants to "run everything into the ground" in order to back up the Unions.

Untruths backing up lies, this is what has to be believed to make a world in which the Unions position makes sense.

The reality is that most people would consider me a leftie and I believe that I do matter yet I use the tube pretty much every day. I also believe that Bob Crow is wrecking the Union and once again putting his needs and power ahead of the workers and users of the Underground.