London tube staff to strike again next week

As it is only 800 staff, why can't London Transport just agree to no compulsory layoffs, and the 800 will be moved to posts as and when they become vacant?

As that would mean no layoffs I 'm sure the union would accept.

Crow you are scum.

This strike is totally politically motivated .Why dont you stand for election as an MP & let the people decide through the ballot box whether they agree with your political views.

London Underground staff are highly paid .... yet the public are held to ransom on a regular basis by this thug

Tom's comment made a lot of sense but Lance seems to be a little jealous over the higher wages that LUL staff earn.

Lance do you take into accoung getting up at 3am on a Winter's morning to go and open a Station or reaching home at 2am or later after finishing a late shift. Or how about having to work the weekends and Bank Holidays with only 1 Christmas week off in 6 years. Working shifts also often results in a shorter life expectancy so now the wages aren't so great are they?

Uncle Bob was voted in by the RMT members and the strike is not politically motivated, it is about 800 families losing their main income and ability to pay a mortgage/rent/energy/food bills

Dear anonymous,

LTstaff work less than 40 hours a week ...so the life expectancy waffle really doesnt cut much ice . Compare that to the hours worked by doctors & nurses whose lives are going to made a misery by this industrial action.

There is not a year that goes by that there are not endless attempts by Crow to bring misery to commuters by calling for strike action for absolutely no genuine reason.

Crow has called for civil disobedience & was going to call for strike action whatever the reason .... I REPEAT HE HAS A CLEAR POLITICAL AGENDA.

What was the % of RMT members that actually voted for strike action ?

"The 800 families losing their main income" is just like Crow's political ambition ...a fantasy

The tube bosses have already promised there will be no compulsory redundancies and the unions still insist on striking. Its time the tube bosses got tough and forget the carrot approach and used a stick. Why not say no strikes, no compulsory redundancies or if you strike, there will be compulsory redundancies.

There are no compulsory redundancies and the main focus of the change is to streamline the ticket office part of the underground. The RMT has no coherent rationale for striking as none of their members will be directly affected - the 800 jobs to go will be by natural attrition over time.

I find it hard to have sympathy for them when there is no logical (non-political) reason for a strike that is going to mess up my day. The tube drivers earn twice what a fireman earns and don't normally risk their lives in the course of their jobs. And they get 58 days leave a year!

If the underground was a company delivering a service in direct competition with other companies, action like this strike would soon put the underground out of business. A company needs to be able to respond to the ever-changing market conditions, even one like the underground. What Crow does do is eke out unbelivable concessions for his members, so to that end, he is just about the best in the business. No wonder he can get his members out on strike for something as ridiculous as this.