Tube Strike, Boxing Day

[tamborine]

According to Sky News, tube drivers are paid £46k pa & working public hols is written into their contracts.

ASLEF union wants them to have triple wages. Do you support the drivers ?

http://news.sky.com/story/1030232/tube-strike-shoppers-face-boxing-day-delays

[douglas9401]

90% and over is the norm in totaliitarian regimes Gromit. :)

[lcg]

no....i think double pay is enough, or with maybe with time in lieu on top also at most. to be paid £46k and expect a triple pay deal is greedy - it is a service sector after all....don't they realise that people up and down the land have to incorporate working on bank holidays (and maybe even shifts) in all other service sectors too? and certainly not on £46k, either. they should think about a lowly paid care worker who uses their own car to travel to clients who gets paid £8 per hour for their essential work....or the shop assistant/supermarket workers who scrapes a living and ends up covering boxing day or the new year because they have to (rotas may be made rigid over this period with no compromise - my son is stuck with his hours at sainsbury's and will miss most of my mum's 60th birthday celebrations, even though he had found somebody to cover, for example). i would let them carry on with their strike until they get fed up with missing out on boxing day. greedy buggers - i bet the get an enhabced rate for 'unsocial hours' and overtime, anyway. fgs....i'm a nurse and get paid half that amount!!! x

[Gromit]

I think Boris is in charge of TfL, so we can blame him.

[baza]

in 1971 British Rail ran for the last time on Boxing Day, since then a couple of lines tried running a service but the only passengers were anoraks that had been given a new notebook and pencil for Christmas. imo if TfL did not run a service the the shops would not start their sales until the day after and the shop workers get the day off. Win win, sorry can't help with the nurses or care workers.

[evedawn]

No
! I
Do
Not!!!!

[Gromit]

Douglas

You think ASLEF is a totalitarian regime? You must be very stupid.