On Apr 22, 2:02�pm, wrote:
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:02:16 -0700 (PDT)

Mizter T wrote:
You think a big showdown might have worked? Interesting. If so then
any reason to suggest why it wouldn't work now?

Worked with the miners. A few months of trouble prevented us having power
cuts throughout the 80s like the *******s inflicted on us in the years
prior to the strike.

It might work now but it would be a lot harder because the RMT are probably
so used to getting their own way and so confident in their own ability to
arm twist that my guess is they'd take it all the way instead of backing
down and also they'd run sobbing to the media about how nasty LU is causing
everyone so much hassle by not giving in to their demands. And the broadcast
media generally being a load of left wing teapots and naturally sympathetic to
anyone sticking it to the man would probably let that claim pass without too
much scrutiny.

That's similar to my initial thoughts. However, being generous, I can
imagine the potentially disorientating effect of operating a train in
a tunnel for lengthy periods of time, and the danger of going into
'auto-pilot' especially when the platforms are for the most part on
one side of the train.

I suppose, but IMO if you're awake enough to open the doors in the first
place you should be awake enough to know where the platform is.

B2003

It really does beggar belief that ANYONE could regard a train driver
opening the doors on the wrong side at a station (or in between
stations or whatever) as being anything other than in gross
dereliction of duty and liable to instant dismissal, in the same way
that a bus driver who drove the wrong way up a dual carriageway
because he was too bone idle to check the direction of traffic flow
would (hopefully) inevitably find himself!

That Brother Crow has the gall to make an issue of this shows that he
has no confidence in his members' ability to do what they are paid so
handsomely to do (i.e. drive a train and open the doors at the correct
places). If that is the sort of people that L.U.L. is employing to
drive trains, then the sooner the entire system is automated and
driverless the better!

Marc.