Wednesday 20 August 2014


Yesterday’s meeting doesn’t appear to have been productive so today ASLEF and Central Line management will be taking the dispute to ACAS.  For myself that is a reason to be cheerful, usually ACAS tell LUL that they should abide by any existing agreements with the unions and by flouting those agreements they’ve been behaving like a collection of troublesome 8 year olds.

If things aren’t settled at ACAS then the strike on Friday will come as a bit of a shock to our passengers as it’s still being ignored by the major news networks.  I can only assume that either the media drones at 55 have decided that as its only one line it’s not worth their precious time or everyone has gone on holiday.

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  1. The public will not be alone in their shock if there is a strike on Friday, most of the Aslef membership on the Central Line will be shocked too. For some it maybe hilarious to watch as as rampant scabs man a picket line where they will be asking their colleagues not to cross the line when they themselves have crossed every line in the past 5 years . Then there's the high risk that Aslef recently took on membership from many who won't strike no matter what the action is.Good luck with that.

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    1. Support among ASLEF members during our Boxing Day dispute was pretty solid, it was the RMT who turned up for work despite them benefitting from the results we won. The same with this strike, an issue that effects all Central Line TOps but once again ASLEF is going alone while RMT sits on the sidelines saving their members for when they need to call them out to support the station staff. If we do get management to back down then once again RMT members will benefit from ASLEF’s actions.

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  2. Personally I won't cross MY unions picket line no matter what the cause or cost.

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  3. Ooh, touchy!
    90% yes says different, new members say delighted as drivers can strike for drivers issues.
    Get over yourself - just gutted you can only protest if station staff affected. Only one drivers union.

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  4. The sooner you lot are replaced by machines the better, and safer, we'll all be. Then you can stay in bed every morning!

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    1. LUL's plans are that by 2030 the Piccadilly, Central, W&C and Bakerloo Lines will be driverless at a cost of £16bn but that will still leave 70% of trains still needing a driver in the cab. By the time the Tube goes totally driverless I won't be in my bed, I'll be dead.

      But you'll still be a cunt

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    2. Anonymous shrugged.

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  5. Yeah, but a cunt who can use public transport thats not staffed by lazy striking wankers.

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  6. Good to see we have the publics full support as always :D

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  7. Saturday I was waiting for e/b central line at Bank when train pulled in, TOp sound asleep. It stopped for a bit, the doors didn't open, then it pulled off again ... leaving annoyed people on the platform, and even more annoyed people on the Train I assume. I am sure it was managements fault, of course, and I await the strike when they try to discipline the driver.

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    1. If the driver was asleep, how did the train start up from the station? You still need to press the twin start buttons in order to get the train moving!

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    2. If the doors are not opened at a station do the start buttons need to be pressed for the train to get going again?

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    3. They do once it's berthed.

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  8. It was anonymous who was asleep as he/she/it has dreamt the whole thing up.

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  9. There's an awful lot of trolling going on in the comments here.

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    1. I sometimes wonder if it's worth building bridges, because they only provide homes for trolls.

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