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I know not many of you are in London but for those of us who use the tube every day to get to work I am extremely p****d off with Mr Crowe and his mob !

 

They've decided to strike for three days which effectivly shuts down 9 out of the 12 tube lines in London. This means that millions of ordinary workers like myself are unable to get into work. I am fortunate in that I have a laptop and can work (to a fashion) from home but most of these people can't.

 

They're striking over the fact that Metronet (the company that maintains these 9 lines) has gone into administration and they want cast iron guarantee's that their members pensions, jobs etc are all safe. Obviously the administrators can't guarantee what happens after they've finished but Mr Crowe seems to think they should ! No administrator in his/her right mind is going to give that guarantee so out they all go, for three days !!!

 

I suppose I might understand if they were doing this because something had been imposed on them but this is about taking pre-emptive action, which ultimately is mucking up millions of people's lives across London.

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I know not many of you are in London but for those of us who use the tube every day to get to work I am extremely p****d off with Mr Crowe and his mob !

 

They've decided to strike for three days which effectivly shuts down 9 out of the 12 tube lines in London. This means that millions of ordinary workers like myself are unable to get into work. I am fortunate in that I have a laptop and can work (to a fashion) from home but most of these people can't.

 

They're striking over the fact that Metronet (the company that maintains these 9 lines) has gone into administration and they want cast iron guarantee's that their members pensions, jobs etc are all safe. Obviously the administrators can't guarantee what happens after they've finished but Mr Crowe seems to think they should ! No administrator in his/her right mind is going to give that guarantee so out they all go, for three days !!!

 

I suppose I might understand if they were doing this because something had been imposed on them but this is about taking pre-emptive action, which ultimately is mucking up millions of people's lives across London.

 

Bring back Maggie. Sorry, i do feel for you, not your doing but you will have the inconveniance care of people who don't care about you.

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winter of discount tents?

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winter of discount tents?

 

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chesters are you related to hembo ??? :D

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He he he, I've got a whole CD of that groups songs, they are class.

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Well, If I had been working for a half decent publicy owned company for many years, (with all the security that working for a govmt gives you). Was hijacked by Mr Brown and one of his PPP pirates who pay f'all into my pension and milk the co of millions while sucking at the taxpayers nipple and then decided to throw in the towel cos 'it's too hard' leaving me looking at a barren retirement I'd be a tad peeved as well.

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Got to agree with Toq on this its the failure of a private ppp company that can not deliver, not TfL the publicly owned partner.

This is all down to Maggie and her cult of privitisation, so I don't see what help she would be?

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Tog, I agree with you but they are asking for something that neither the administrators nor Metronet can give, never mind the rights and wrongs of the PPP deal. The other two unions have obviously realised that and have withdrawn their decision to strike based on the same assurances that Metronet and the administrators gave the RMT.

 

I firmly believe in strike action where justified but this to me just smacks of Bob Crowe's own political agenda and he's making millions of people suffer for it, not least his own members.

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At least Browns debacle with this PPP is out in the open now

- and once again red Ken was right! blimy me agreeing wiv him!!

 

Odd - cos i'm a 'right of center' type mainly - but I do think 'big stuff' should be owned / run by govmt:

Gas, Leccy, Water, public transport etc - should'nt be arsed about with by asset stripping co's who don't care what happens to their workers once they've looted the pension funds and sold off the land.

 

The Issue I assume the RMT is making - is that this PPP was 'doomed', Robber Brown is to blame and it's his job to fix it?

 

And of course the whole PPP thing is a gaping sink hole for our taxes (and our children's), I could make a good fist of a lot of stuff if I borrowed tons of money with no plans to repay it..........

Jealousy: totally irrational anger directed at people who happen to be richer, prettier, thinner, cleverer and more successful than you are.
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