London Underground strike-Justified or just greed?

[36TEAK36]

I hear that there will be a strike on the LU on Boxing Day, and just wondered what other Abers think of this.

I have only read a couple of brief news reports, and it looks as though the strike is because workers want triple pay and a day in lieu for working Boxing Day.

Do you think they have a valid reason for striking, or do you think that triple pay and a day in lieu is just pure greed? I would expect to be paid extra if I had to work Boxing Day, but I think their damands are a bit over the top.

On the face of it, I think it is greed, but maybe there is more to this than the short few paragraphs I have read.

[dotty.]

triple pay and a day in lieu? we get normal pay and a day in lieu which is the same as double time in a way. It does sound a bit excessive and they are giving no consideration to the long term future of their employer. I'd love to be paid quadruple for working 6 hours boxing day but that would be fairly profit destroying for the company,

[jake-the-peg]

Apparently management is telling the drivers that Boxing day is "an ordinary working day"

http://www.aslef.org....xing_day_tube_strike/

[dotty.]

it is, most employees now get and extra day off as holiday whether they work any of the bank holidays or not.

[jake-the-peg]

I suspect this may be because Christmas is falling at the weekend.

With two bank holidays on Monday and Tuesday.

Presumably despite the bank holidays being designated if you like as replacement days Christmas day itself has been designated not a normal working day.

So the management have conceded the principle that both Christmas day and the bank holiday that compensates for it are both not normal working days.

This would seem to have been a rather poor management decision as they've conceded the principle and undermined their argument regarding boxing day.

Seems to me that they should have positioned themselves that neither Christmas nor boxing day were normal working days and therefore the replacement bank holidays are.

But I'm guessing obviously we don't get much visibility into the two different positions.

[Davethedog]

I think that its and extreme demand in the face of an intransigent management.

Don't forget that in the background is the ongoing "safety" dispute.

I think its not a tenable position by management to ask someone to just work boxing day for no benifit.

[jno]

for those in north-west London, management outrage must seem totally phoney. So Aslef are closing down the trains on Sunday? Well, management are closing them down Monday and Tuesday, for "upgrading" works that are running a year late. I'd like to see management sort out their own incompetence rather than wasting time haggling with their employees. There are far more "planned closures" - almost every weekend, in fact - than strikes.

[buildersmate]

I seem to recall it was some senior Union Official that used the term 'Greedy Bastards' many years back whilst referring to British Gas.
It seems that the cap fits well on other heads too.