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Steve Fitzgerald · February 7th 07, 01:16 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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I thought it was the British Transport *Officers* Guild. Seems LUL
didn't even know who they were talking too. Btw it was it bit
misleading for LU to say TSSA and BTOG had accepted the deal leaving
ASLEF and RMT out in the cold, thus implying 50% of the workforce were
in agreement. Does anyone actually know a member of BTOG? Isn't it
just the Chairman and his dog? Plus TSSA would never dare stand up to
TfL management, or at least haven't done in living memory. Also the
later running affects all members of LU's operating staff yet only
drivers were offered the extra days off. If the latter are the only
people involved, as LU seems to suggest, they why have the rest of
LU's staff been denied a pay rise since April 2005!?

Station and other staff had already agreed to later working with their
2005 pay award. Nothing was added for drivers at that time hence the
retention of the existing framework agreements for them. The 3 days
leave is now an attempt to resolve this. The issue I personally have is
LUL trying to force through changes to long discussed and established
agreements on the back of the 2006 pay agreement. These matters should
have been discussed separately IMO. Bearing in mind that taking odd
days leave now is difficult enough for us, as they never seem to have
enough cover to let us have any day off requested, these days would also
be a struggle to take and personally, I would have just preferred the
money - which then opens a whole other bag of worms.

For me, I don't care much if I work an extra half hour on odd nights or
not, after all I was one of those to volunteer to work through the night
NYE. As a passenger, though I would much prefer that service is
provided for those who need to get to work and/or airports and the like,
than a later service which is mainly to benefit those who are travelling
optionally and could quite easily, like I do, get a night bus home.
There are places covered by the tube that don't have a night bus, but
I'm sure it would be much cheaper and easier to provide service to these
extra bits.
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