d wrote on 25 Jan 2017 at 09:29 ...
On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 18:34:00 -0600
wrote:
In article
-septembe
r.org, (Recliner) wrote:

Basil Jet wrote:
Central and Waterloo & City lines strike for 24hours from Wednesday
night.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-38733015

I see the RMT has picked another earth-shattering issue for this week's
political strike:
"The dispute centres around plans to transfer eight train operators
between Central line depots."

Are Cash & Co trying to drive their members out of work by gaining such a
reputation for bloody-mindedness?

Its very reminiscent of Leyland back in the 70s. There needs to be a change
in the law to make the railway a special service (or whatever the term is) so
that strikes are outlawed and if there are any wildcat strikes then the
perpetrators can be sacked on the spot.

In Paris, it's less draconian than that, but quite customer-friendly.
The arrangement is, I think, that they have to keep a proportion of the
trains running to provide a minimum level of service. So when there's a
strike on the Métro, RATP are able to announce in advance the expected
level of service during the strike, such as "1 train in 3". If there is
disruption on RER B, SNCF always run a shuttle service from Gare du Nord
to CDG airport to provide a minimum service to the airport. They even
have a dedicated website abcdtrains.com which is only used during major
disruption, usually strikes, to provide details of the emergency
timetable. It remembers the journey you asked about during the previous
strike.

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Richard J.
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