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Mizter T wrote:
On 04/02/2014 15:22, Roland Perry wrote:

The Tube Strike - Last weapon for the average working guy?



http://politicasanctuarium.weebly.co...trike-last-wea
pon-for-the-average-working-guy.html

I wouldn't have described Mr Robert Crow as an average working guy.

Nor are tube train drivers, who earn more than twice the average
salary (52k vs 26k).

Though other LU workers might fit the bill better (ticket office and
station staff) - one could argue the upcoming strike is more about
them and their future.

Are they objecting mainly to the reduction of jobs, or the change in
their nature (ie, out among the pax, not hiding in the office)? I see
that TfL already has 450 applications for voluntary redundancies (of
the target 750), so there should indeed be no need for compulsory
redundancies.

I am bemused by this. Does anyone have the ticket office usage
figures over the last decade? I can't believe they haven't fallen
pretty sharply. And station staffing is going to be maintained as
demonstrated on Overground, just not in booking offices, isn't it?

I think it's something like 3% of passengers now using the ticket offices,
so most really are pretty much redundant (and closed most of the day
anyway, outside the centre). But the unions also don't like the fact that
many of the quieter stations will become single-manned, with a mobile
supervisor covering half a dozen stations.

How does Overground operate? I can think of some of their stations where
that might be an issue already.

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Colin Rosenstiel