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.

Absolutely! And why should the rest of us have our pay award delayed
by management trying to get an agreement for drivers? As you say
station staff already have an agreement in place for later working,
and for those of us in service control (yes we're a much smaller group
of staff than stations or trains but you won't get much of a service
without us!) our shift times won't actually be affected so there is no
need for new agreements (AFAIK).