RANT TIME!

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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.

There's industrial action and then there's walking out of work because of new shift patterns when you have a set, low number of hours, earn a starting rate of £26.53 an hour, are getting a small pay rise and are getting a cash bonus for the transitional period. What more can they actually get for simply having to adapt to the company's new services they provide? 

If the company you work for is totally restructuring the service it offers customers and your hours are not increasing plus you'll be better off, but the downside is you'll have to adapt to your new working pattern then that seems pretty fair. What more can an employer reasonably be expected to do when they've got to modernise and update their services? The tube is already very expensive. 

If your new company undergoes major restructuring, and has offered you several incentives to stay under the new system, you either need to be flexible and willing to adapt (and still, in this case, have a great job with short hours and very high pay) or go and find employment elsewhere. Ruining lots of other people's jobs because you hate change is not really fair.