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Southern Rail STRIKE details
- Thread starter Ernest
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portslade seagull
Well-known member
Have to agree with this
No problem, as I said THE HUNDREDS OF ON BOARD SUPERVISORS THEY HAVE HIRED CAN DO THAT TASK. It's really not as complicated as rail staff want us to believe. Their gravy train is approaching it's final destination. All change please, all change.
Ticket offices should be shut down. Outdated waste of time.
Which part are you insinuating is incorrect. Genuinely happy to be corrected if I am wrong on this.
Thousands. Even better. Problem solved.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Are they going to hire new drivers and ticket office staff too? They're striking too because of this dreadful company.
The government needs to call in GTR's ownership and find a company that knows how to run a railway.
Well no, not drivers because they are a closed shop.That's why they can hold the country to ransom eh. Ticket office staff? **** 'em, absolute waste of time having ticket sales staff. They are grumpy, useless, uninterested squad of inepts anyway.
Any company that are worth their salt will be getting rid of guards and tciket offices anyway.
jmsc
New member
All forms of closed shops in the UK are illegal following the introduction of the Employment Act 1990
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
The government awarded the franchise to Govia to take on the last powerful Unions so that will never happen.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Rubbish the European Court banned compulsory Union membership in the 80s and I believe it was railway related
studio150
Well-known member
Friday looks like being fun
We are very sorry to let you know that we expect services to be severely reduced across much of the network on non-strike days from tomorrow (Friday), through the weekend and on Monday as a result of ASLEF's (the Drivers' Union) continued overtime ban.
Tomorrow, Friday, is the first day when ASLEF's overtime ban will be felt on a non-strike day. This means that Southern and Gatwick Express services will be severely reduced and, on some routes, cancelled altogether. We will put on rail replacement buses where we can. We urge people to check before they travel on the day.
Please check the Southern website www.southernrailway.com/strike for more details on Southern services affected and www.gatwickexpress.com for Gatwick Express services affected. We strongly advise you to check again on the day that you travel.
We're sincerely sorry about the delays, cancellations and disruptions to your services.
We are very sorry to let you know that we expect services to be severely reduced across much of the network on non-strike days from tomorrow (Friday), through the weekend and on Monday as a result of ASLEF's (the Drivers' Union) continued overtime ban.
Tomorrow, Friday, is the first day when ASLEF's overtime ban will be felt on a non-strike day. This means that Southern and Gatwick Express services will be severely reduced and, on some routes, cancelled altogether. We will put on rail replacement buses where we can. We urge people to check before they travel on the day.
Please check the Southern website www.southernrailway.com/strike for more details on Southern services affected and www.gatwickexpress.com for Gatwick Express services affected. We strongly advise you to check again on the day that you travel.
We're sincerely sorry about the delays, cancellations and disruptions to your services.
jmsc
New member
Not true, there have been closed shops in EU countries in the 21st century.
Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
I love the last paragraph. Anything but sincerely sorry. I would rather them just say **** you we dont care. At least its honest.
wakeytom
New member
Dozens of trains now no longer showing on the planner tomorrow, absolute jokers the lot of them
Presumably the RMT and ASLEF are still drafting their apologies, right?
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
....And presumably the club will sue for breach of contract?
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
wakeytom
New member
Never the Unions fault any of this, even the strike days not their fault. 100% blame on Southern
Tomorrow's disruption is mainly because ASLEF drivers are declining to work overtime. Which is entirely their right. Unless you think people should be forced to work overtime?