On 31 Aug, 15:23, James Farrar wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:06:54 +0100, "Paul Scott"

wrote:

So basically they are threatening a strike becasuse they dont believe Ken
Livingstone?

Basically, they're threatening a strike because they haven't had one
for a while...

I would tend to disagree with you there.
At least one union (the Transport Salaried Staffs Association) has not
called it's members out on strike for decades, as there has been no
need.

The fact that they have voted in favour of a strike shows how
aggrieved they are by the whole Metronet fiasco, which includes
mismanagement of their business and then calling in the
administrators, thus leaving a £50M defecit in the Pension Fund which
they are no longer repsonsible for paying and despite having given up,
whilst remaining intent on getting rid of 691 jobs completely and
transferring a large number of the remaining staff to Bombardier who
were one of the first partners in the consortium to write off their
investment and throw in the towel.