RANT TIME!

[Dum-Dum]

Just out of curiosity, dum, do you have and references or evidence to back up your arguments? You sound knowledgeable on the subject, but I haven't seen anything that agrees with your knowledge.

I find the general distaste for industrial action in this thread more than a little disturbing, to be honest.

As below then;

remember that this 2% pay rise is on top of their annual pay increment (for those not already at the top of the scale) and their inflation/index linked pay rise. It was in one of the papers


As for the "if it's so easy why don't you become a tube driver?" bollocks it is a hugely over subscribed job and they only recruit internally from people who already work for LU and even becoming station staff for them is a serious job, they get thousands upon thousands of applications. Sadly, because of the money and apparent ease of it, it's a job which attracts people who are just in it for the money. Have applied for this myself and know a couple of tube drivers


As for the danger and responsibility mainline train drivers have far more responsibility however even the worst train crash (since the demise of British Rail) was Ladbrooke Grove where 2 trains collided due to driver error IIRC there were less people dead there than the 7/7 bombings. 31 people died in the ladbrook grove disaster and 56 in the london terror attacks, this is common knowledge also that was a proper train crash with trains that take ages to stop, a tube train can just about stop in the length of a standard platform

I know you say about people stepping off the platforms in front of them and I can promise you it does f*cking tear you apart watching someone die in front of you but any of the emergency services will see worse on a far more regular basis. Personal experience and friends in 4 out of the 5 emergency services

That good enough for "references or evidence" or would you like me to reference everything I have ever posted, do you think I'm a liar?