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10-06-09, 12:49 PM

I don't know much about the reasons given for the strike, but if the reports of starting salaries of £40k for tube drivers and £29k for platform attendants is true, and that they are requesting increases to this, I'm afraid I don't support them.

I'm all up for unions if used in the right way (although I do question, realistically, how much they are needed what with the rules and regulations available to employees today), but it seems as if this is a corrupt union. The salaries mentioned above are more than equal, so IMO there is no 'fighting for financial equality' here.

Apparently (French guy next to me who commutes from France once a week) in France they cannot strike fully in this way - they have to keep a skeleton service running. "What happens if they don't?" I asked..."they get fired" comes the reply!

It's not right to hold the public to ransom in this way, it's the same as the old "kill 100 to save 1000" dilemma. You can't justify the taking of life in that way, similarly you can't justify affecting the 'innocent public' in this way either.

10-06-09, 12:49 PM	#27
muffles Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Central London is Chaos Today! I don't know much about the reasons given for the strike, but if the reports of starting salaries of £40k for tube drivers and £29k for platform attendants is true, and that they are requesting increases to this, I'm afraid I don't support them. I'm all up for unions if used in the right way (although I do question, realistically, how much they are needed what with the rules and regulations available to employees today), but it seems as if this is a corrupt union. The salaries mentioned above are more than equal, so IMO there is no 'fighting for financial equality' here. Apparently (French guy next to me who commutes from France once a week) in France they cannot strike fully in this way - they have to keep a skeleton service running. "What happens if they don't?" I asked..."they get fired" comes the reply! It's not right to hold the public to ransom in this way, it's the same as the old "kill 100 to save 1000" dilemma. You can't justify the taking of life in that way, similarly you can't justify affecting the 'innocent public' in this way either.